London: England captain Joe Root stated that Jasprit Bumrah’s spell was the real turning point of the game after the hosts lost on the last day of the fourth Test at the Kennington Oval on Monday by 157 runs against India.
The Indian bowlers came up with a outstanding effort on Day 5 of the Oval Test as they defeated England by 157 runs to claim a 2-1 lead in the England vs India five-match series. Jasprit Bumrah, and all-around performance by Shardul Thakur in the match helped the visitors in defeating England by 157 runs to gain a 2-1 in the five-match series. This is also India’s first win in Oval in 50 years.
Bumrah, who completed 100 Test wickets, finished with astonishing figures of 22-9-27-2, Joe Root hailed him as ‘world-class bowler.’ Bumrah also became the quickest Indian pacer to take 100 wickets in the longest format of the game breaking former Indian skipper Kapil Dev’s record. Bumrah achieved this feat in 24 Test matches, one fewer than Kapil Dev.
“Bumrah is a world-class bowler and outstanding spell by him after the lunch, I think that spell changed the game on its head,’ Joe Root said at the post-match conference.
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Joe Root further added that England were in a very good position to win the game, but the Indian bowlers managed to get the ball to reverse swing and from there on began England’s batting collapse.
“It’s frustrating, thought we’ll get something from the game today, we had an opportunity of winning a Test match. The opening partnership was outstanding, credit to India, they got the ball to reverse I thought Bumrah’s spell was the real turning point of the game. From our side, we’ll have to look at other areas where we missed opportunities, maybe we should have made more of an advantage with the first-innings lead and should have taken the chances that were offered.”
Having been set a record chase of 368 to win, England reached 100 without loss on the morning session, but suffered a dramatic collapse after lunch, losing 4 for 6 inside six overs by Bumrah.
“We always look to get better, he’s a superb bowler and at times we need to be realistic and accept that he bowled really well, that was world-class bowling. Have to manage better if we’re in a similar situation in the near future, especially our game against reverse swing.”
“Whenever we lose a game, we can always look back at the toss, we can always think about a few things and the way it happened, but at the end of the day, we need to be ruthless, should have got more than a 100-run lead. We needed that big hundreds, big partnerships… Having got starts, you have to make those 20-30 runs count. We need to play good cricket right around in Old Trafford.”
The fifth Test match in Manchester is scheduled to start on September 10th at Old Trafford cricket ground.
