The Indian team could not stop England from scoring a big score in the first innings.Image Credit Source: PTI
India vs england: In 2024 against New Zealand, Team India suffered a crushing defeat in the Test series at home. The Indian team was the first series defeat at home in 12 years. Then Rohit Sharma, the captain of Team India, had said that it goes on once in 12 years. There was a lot of ruckus on Rohit’s statement. But since then, the situation of Team India has become such, where old records are breaking with every match and series. This trend continued in the Manchester Test, where after 11 years, Team India scored more than 600 runs.
Team India saw this day after 11 years
Indian bowling flew away in the fourth match of the Test series at the Old Trafford Stadium against England. England scored a big score of 669 runs in the first innings with the help of captain Ben Stokes and former captain Joe Root. Team India bowled in this innings for a total of 157.1 overs and then all the 10 wickets of England were able to fall.
As soon as England crossed the 600 -run mark in this innings, the process of Team India’s strong performance for the last 11 years also broke. In fact, after 11 years against the Indian team, a team scored more than 600 runs in an innings of the Test match played abroad. Earlier in 2014, New Zealand scored more than 600 runs against India in the Wellington Test.
England made record score
Not only this, England scored 669 runs and also took the record of the biggest score in Old Trafford. England broke Australia’s 61 -year -old record of the biggest score on this ground. Earlier, Australia had declared the innings for 656 runs in 1964. As far as the match is concerned, England took a big lead of 311 runs in the first innings on Team India with this score.
Stokes also created history
England captain Ben Stokes played a big role in taking England to this record score. Stokes, which was constantly failing in the series before the Manchester Test, scored a great century. Stokes scored a test century after more than 2 years and scored 141 runs. Along with this, this happened in Test cricket after 42 years, when a captain took 5 wickets in the innings and scored a century. Stokes took 5 wickets in Team India’s first innings. With this, Stokes became the first Indian captain to do so.
