England won the Test match with Siraj’s wicket.Image Credit Source: Getty Images
Every effort of Team India failed at the last stop and missed the history after 39 years in Lord’s. On the last day of the Lord’s Test match, England defeated India by 22 runs and also took a 2–1 lead in the series. On the last day of this 5 -day match, Team India had to score 135 runs to win England, but the failure of the top and middle order put it in trouble. After this, Ravindra Jadeja, along with Jaspreet Bumrah and Mohammad Siraj, made a militant partnerships and brought the team closer to victory, but finally England got success.
The first four days of this match, which started from July 10, was seen in Lord’s and both teams showed a match. This thrill reached the last day, where the result of the match was scheduled to come. After holding England’s second innings for 192 runs, Team India had a target of 193 runs to win. On this ground, Team India won only once in 1986 chasing the target. In such a situation, there was a chance to repeat history 39 years old but it could not happen.
Defeat fixed in the first session
Team India had lost 4 wickets by the end of the fourth day, while only 58 runs were scored. From here, Team India’s victory started to look difficult. Still the eyes were resting on KL Rahul, who returned unbeaten on 33 on the fourth day. On the last day with him, Rishabh Pant landed for batting and seeing his old history, the expectations of Indian fans were left. But in the third over of the last day, Jofra Archer bowled Pant on a great ball and gave a loud shock to these expectations. Only after three overs, Ben Stokes almost eliminated India’s expectations by dismissing Rahul LBW.
After this, it did not take much time for Washington Sundar to return to the pavilion, whom Archer diverted on his own ball and returned the pavilion with one hand with one hand. The defeat was decided with 7 wickets falling for just 82 runs. Although during this time, a 30 -run partnership between Ravindra Jadeja and Nitish Kumar Reddy raised some hope, but in the last over of the first session, Chris Woakes returned Reddy to the pavilion.
Jadeja, Bumrah and Siraj fought a lot
From here, Team India’s defeat was seen because it was 81 runs away from the victory and only 2 wickets were left. But hardly anyone would have expected such a comeback, which Team India showed and its most important character Jadeja. The star all -rounder continued his best form with the bat and in the second session, along with Bumrah, kept the team’s hopes alive. Both batted almost the entire session and shared a 35 -run partnership. However, Bumrah was finally dismissed after facing 54 balls.
At this time, the team needed 46 runs but then Jadeja kept the match exciting with Siraj and took it to the third session. During this, Jadeja (61 runs unbeaten, 181 balls) also completed its fourth consecutive half -century. Both of them brought the team closer to victory and increased the hope in the fans. But then Siraj defended Shoaib Bashir’s ball in the 75th over but it proved fatal because the ball rolled on the stumps and Siraj (4 runs, 30 balls) became bowled. With this, Team India was all out for 170 runs.
