After thrilling match India level the series 2-2.

     Written by : SMTV24x7 | Fri, Mar 19, 2021, 01:04 PM

After thrilling match India level the series 2-2.

India won the match after a brilliant Blowing effect at the end, at one end the match going in to England's hand when stock & Bairstow timing the ball sweetly and hitting the balls over the ropes, the young star Rahul chahar produce bairstow's wicket and the game changer shardul struck two balls to wickets for the team.

Hardik Pandya is bowling with the new ball. It's an uncommon sight but with all the talk about more responsibility for the all-rounder, the move makes sense. He has two fielders behind square on the legside and concedes only one run off the first three balls. "What a bowler, what a bowler," Virat Kohli says loudly, perhaps ensuring that it's heard well by Jason Roy. The England opener has just played his eighth dot ball and is yet to get off the mark.

That wasn't the only occasion when India's close-in fielders kept the spirits high. Suryakumar Yadav called it "creating the energy" in his post-match media interaction, and it felt like a clear directive from Kohli who was left disappointed a couple of nights ago by India's unacceptable body language in the second innings. It was no surprise that Kohli took it on himself to set that right.

It was also the right day to make amends, for they needed more supporting cast despite having more runs to defend. The flattest wicket of the series was on offer and for the first time in four games, there was dew to contend with. That came with its own set of challenges for India's unabashed faith in a five-man bowling attack with two spinners in the ranks, neither of whom could afford a bad day. Or so it seemed at the time.

The tone was set early on by a brilliant opening over from Bhuvneshwar Kumar. It wasn't just extraordinary because it was a maiden over but also because of how it turned into one. Bhuvneshwar had troubled Roy with inswingers in the previous game but all of them were going down the legside. This time, Bhuvneshwar bowled five full outswingers to Roy, dragging him across his stumps with each delivery before slipping in the inswinger. Firmly on the front foot by now, Roy was in no position to go back and turn this hard length around for a single.

In contrast at the other end, Hardik relied on changes from the word go. One of his slower deliveries (91 kph) clocked less than Washington Sundar's average speed (98.5 kph) in the game. It was so slow that Roy was through his pull by the time the ball arrived; it hit the back of his bat and popped into the offside. The humour of that moment aside, it was evidence that the plan was working.