One hour madness on Monday morning was the only suitable way for the Oval final of Anderson-Dendulkar. India and England continued trading with strikes until the last minute of a heavily attacked series. No party really deserved. Perhaps India did it for the way they fought in Manchester and kept the series alive to the oval. Maybe yes England, because Chris Woakes’s bravery showed when he came out on a bat with a dislocated shoulder.
But in sports, you rarely get what you deserve. There could be only one winner – and it was India. The heart of Muhammed Siri was perhaps more than everything else on that frenetic Monday morning. He raised five goals and appeared as an indisible hero.
England vs. India, 5th test day 5 emphasizing
England did not reach only six runs, climbed 367 in an effort to 374. Siraj claimed three out of four goals to fall last morning. He is the warrior himself who has performed to finish the work – sealing it searing Yorker.
India leveled a series of 2-2 and retained the trophy Anderson-tendulkar.
At the beginning of the game, England required 34 runs. India needed four goals. Perhaps only three-butts, however, confirmed that Chris Woakes, despite the dislocated shoulder, went out on the left hand bat. It was a suitable end of the series, where both sides pushed on their physical and emotional limits.
The heavy cylinder was deployed, as expected, with England, which tried to iron the nature of the fifth day. Yet, perhaps for the first time in the series, overhead conditions leaned in balance in favor of India. Below the gray sky, the ball moved enough in the first hour to avoid the effect of the cylinder.
Anderson-tendulkar Trophy-Která lived and triggered on the last day, resisting predictions and overwritten scripts. India almost conjured something extraordinary and last resisted a chance.
In the grim Monday morning, however, India began on the worst possible remark. Prasidh Krishna was hit for two consecutive boundaries. The short ball barely rose above the shoulders of the hefty Jamie Overton, who pulled her to the fence of the middle goal. Prasidh modified his length, settled in the canal, but Orton drove his happiness – the inner edge lacked the stumps and crawled around the goalkeeper for the next border.
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Published:
Akshay Ramesh
Published on:
4th August 2025
Tune
