Indian team won a Test match at the Oval in London after 1971, a gap of 50 years. It was a total team performance from the visitors with lower-order performing with the bat in the first innings, pacers ding the job in both the innings and openers and middle-order coming to the rescue in the second batting innings.
While Rohit Sharma stood out with his first overseas Test century scoring 127 runs and was the main reason why India could post a total of 466 runs in the second innings. But it was the bowling all-rounder Shardul Thakur who had the most impact on the game among the 22 players on the field making his presence felt in all four innings.
Thakur first made the difference with the fastest-ever Test fifty in England helping India lift to 191 after being o 127/6. Then in the second innings took the most important wicket of well-set Ollie Pope, who played a fabulous knock of 81 runs.
Shardul counter-attacks England in style and races to his 50 with a pull over…
