Oval Test: Fighting Karun Nair Fifty helps India to survive a busy day 1

India managed to survive on demanding conditions of 1st day of the fifth test against England in the oval when they finished the day at XXX/X. Karun Nair led the accusation with his noble shifts on the day of stopping for visitors, when the rain in the first two sessions continued to violate their dynamics.

For England, Gus Atkinson (2/31) and Josh language (2/47) appeared as the highest ram, because no team could claim control of the stump match. Despite taking six goals on the day, experts criticized the English pitch, which they felt they could do more due to the amount of movement available throughout the day.

It all began with the coin to throw again falling against Indian Captain Shaubman Gill, who lost the fifth consecutive throwing of the series. It was also 15. Indian consecutive loss in international cricket, a rare event that has a probability of 1/32768.

As a result, the SHUBMAN GILL party had to bat on a green peak with overcast conditions over the head-spectacular disaster recipe for any tab line.

It wasn’t long before treacherous conditions caused harm, because Yashasvi Jaiswal was imprisoned before the stumps in the fourth procedure of Gus Atkison. The Indian opener fell to the prey to supplies coming from the stump seventh in the series and was released LBW to 2 (9).

Jaiswal’s weakness was Also emphasized the legendary India dough Sunil GavascarWho suggested him to change his technique to avoid release. Sai Sudhardsan replaced Jaiswal at the fold when he walked in three.

Gill’s brain moment stands India

Southpaw showed great ripeness to launch in a difficult period when English pitching caused the ball to dance on their melodies under favorable conditions. Rahul and Sudharsan were cautious about the fold and looked tight and sent a feeling of peace in the dressing room.

However, when everything looked good, Chris Woakes caused Klul to cut one near his body and cut it back into his stumps. His release brought the captain in the form of SHUBMAN GILL to the fold, which again looked in a gentle touch and played some elegant discs and pulled.

For a while, it looked like Gill and Sudhasan were in the competition to play the most beautiful shift shot, because the duo brought the best weapons from their repertoire one by one. With the runs flowing in the middle, suddenly, the rain came to disrupt the shifts when both teams took an early lunch.

The delay was prolonged before expected, and the game was finally renewed an hour later. But it brought a moment from the brain from Gill, who eventually cursed the goal to England because of some bizarre run. England was pleased to see the back of the highest run of the series without much effort, because Gill’s mistake allowed England to return to the game.

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Most of the sessions were washed out due to rain and the third session was extended to 40 overs. India continued with some good shots from Sudharsan, which was looking for big shift settings.

Karun Nair stands tall on stumps

From nowhere, however, Josh bowed the tongue of the van, which managed to obtain the outer edge of Sudharsan, which went directly to the gloves of Jamie Smith for stumps. The tongue found a rhythm of the whole goal when he even got a big goal of Ravindry Jadeja (9), with another cork.

Dhruv Jurel without Rishabh Pant in the team went on number seven and sewed a 30-run stand with Karun Nair to stabilize the shifts. The duo played several shots to keep the score in motion and take a score of around 150. However, Judel was released during the bizarre passage of the game when he first managed to overturn the LBW decision through DRS, but was caught in a slip on another ball for 19 (40).

At the other end, Nair was unknown when he gradually built on his shifts and searched for gaps again and again in the field. He found another good partner in Washington Sundar, who was fresh from hundred in Manchester. The duo added major runs to the scoreboard late on the day, which made full use of every free delivery.

Nair continued to score his second fifty fifty in the test cricket and ended more than eight years of waiting for half a century and after his famous triple century came 11 shifts. He and Sundar saw India to walk with their undefeated 51-run stand.

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Published:

Rishabh beniwal

Published on:

August 1, 2025