England vs India 1st Test at Birmingham, 01 Aug, 2018

Toss: England, who chose to bat
England 287/10 (89.4)  &  180/10 (53)
India 274/10 (76)  &  162/10 (54.2)
England won by 31 runs
Man of the Match: Sam Curran
  • Umesh Yadav 0 * (8)

Over 15.2 Ravichandran Ashwin bowls a tossed up delivery to JM Bairstow, no runs, gets forward and turns it to leg slip.

Over 15.3 Ravichandran Ashwin bowls it flat in the air to JM Bairstow, no runs, comes on to the front foot and defends it back to the bowler.

Over 15.4 Ravichandran Ashwin bowls a tossed up delivery to JM Bairstow, 1 run, gets forward and works it to short fine leg and picks up an easy single.

Over 16.1  Mohammed Shami bowls a good length delivery to JM Bairstow, 1 leg bye, gets forward and flicks it off the pads down the leg side and picks up a leg bye.

Over 16.6  Mohammed Shami bowls a pitched up delivery to JM Bairstow, Boundary! Leans into the drive and strokes that between cover and mid-off. He will play his shots here and gets the boundary.

Over 18.1 Ishant Sharma bowls a good length delivery to JM Bairstow, 1 run, goes on to the back foot and works it down the leg side and picks up a quick single.

Over 18.1 Ishant Sharma bowls a good length delivery to JM Bairstow, 1 run, goes on to the back foot and works it down the leg side and picks up a quick single.

Over 19.1 Ravichandran Ashwin bowls a tossed up delivery to JM Bairstow, no runs, gets forward and defends it to FSL.

Over 19.2Ravichandran Ashwin to JM Bairstow No runs ...

Over 19.3 Ravichandran Ashwin bowls a tossed up delivery to JM Bairstow, no runs, goes down on his knee and swept it straight to square leg.

Over 19.4 Ravichandran Ashwin bowls it short of length to JM Bairstow, Boundary! Rock back and cut that hard into the gap at cover. Raced away. Pressure-releasing boundary.

Over 19.5 Ravichandran Ashwin bowls a tossed up delivery to JM Bairstow, no runs, gets forward and misses the sweep and good take by the keeper.

Over 19.6 Ravichandran Ashwin bowls a tossed up delivery to JM Bairstow, no runs, gets forward and wanted to sweep, then drive eventually defends and the ball rolls just wide of leg stump.

Over 20.5 Ishant Sharma bowls a good length delivery to JM Bairstow, no runs, gets across the line on the back foot and works it to mid-on.

Over 20.6 Ishant Sharma bowls a good length delivery to JM Bairstow, no runs, gets forward and left alone outside off through to the keeper.

Over 22.1 Ishant Sharma bowls a pitched up delivery to JM Bairstow, no runs, gets forward and pushes it straight to the man at cover.

Over 22.2 Ishant Sharma bowls a good length delivery to JM Bairstow, no runs, goes back in the crease and leaves it down the leg side.

Over 22.3 Ishant Sharma bowls it short of length to JM Bairstow, Boundary! Rocks back in the crease and cuts it hard through backward point and the ball raced away to the fence for four.

Over 22.4 Ishant Sharma bowls a pitched up delivery to JM Bairstow, no runs, gets forward to drive and finds mid-off.

Over 22.5 Ishant Sharma bowls a good length delivery to JM Bairstow, no runs, gets forward and left alone outside off through to the keeper.

Over 22.6 Ishant Sharma bowls it short of length to JM Bairstow, Boundary! Gets on top of the bounce and cuts it down to deep point fence for four.

Over 24.1 Ishant Sharma bowls a good length delivery to JM Bairstow, no runs, comes on to the front foot and happy to let it go through to the keeper.

Over 24.2 Ishant Sharma bowls a good length delivery to JM Bairstow, no runs, gets forward and playing across the line and getting the front foot a bit across, thick inside edge onto the pad and luckily it doesn't carry back to Ishant

Over 24.3 Ishant Sharma bowls a good length delivery to JM Bairstow, no runs, gets forward and goes for a drive away from the body, the ball beats the outside edge of the bat.

Over 24.4Ishant Sharma to JM Bairstow No runs ...

Over 24.5 Ishant Sharma bowls a good length delivery to JM Bairstow, no runs, comes on to the front foot and left alone outside off through to the keeper.

Over 24.6 Ishant Sharma bowls a pitched up delivery to JM Bairstow, 2 runs, gets forward and drives and hits the gap, but the deep point keeps it to two.

Over 26.1 Ishant Sharma bowls a good length delivery to JM Bairstow, 1 run, gets forward and clipped to deep mid and they settle for one as Jadeja is the fielder

Over 26.6 Ishant Sharma bowls a good length delivery to JM Bairstow, 1 run, goes deep in the crease and clips it down to fine leg for a single.

Over 27.1 Ravichandran Ashwin bowls a tossed up delivery to JM Bairstow, 2 runs, gets forward and looked to sweep that from outside off, was early into the shot, lobbed over slip and they rush back for two.

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