England and India Test series heads to Monday morning thriller

England needs 35 much runs to bushed India arsenic 5th Test thriller goes to the past time of the five-match series.

It’s going to beryllium a Monday greeting thriller to determine the cricket bid betwixt England and India aft atrocious airy and rainfall forced an aboriginal extremity to play successful the 5th and last Test, with England needing different 35 runs to win.

England was 339-6 astatine stumps connected time 4 connected Sunday, chasing a people of 374. England leads the bid 2-1.

India needs to assertion different 4 wickets – possibly 3 – for triumph and necktie the series.

England has perchance lone 3 wickets near due to the fact that of all-rounder Chris Woakes’s enarthrosis injury. Woakes was seen successful his cricket whites astatine the Oval connected Sunday, but with his near limb successful a sling amid speculation helium would travel retired astatine fig 11 if needed and bat one-handed.

Joe Root was again England’s saviour connected Sunday with 105 runs, and Harry Brook deed 111, arsenic England aimed to propulsion disconnected different awe-inspiring tally chase.

Wicketkeeper Jamie Smith (2 not out) and bowler Jamie Overton (0 not out) are astatine the crease.

Prasidh Krishna of India celebrates the wicket of Joe Root of England during time 4 of the 5th Test [Alex Davidson/Getty Images]

England chased down 371 successful the Leeds opener, its grounds tally pursuit astatine Headingley.

Root and Brook had deed what looked to beryllium series-clinching Test centuries – Root’s 39th and Brook’s 10th – earlier India stormed backmost to acceptable up an agonizing time 5 decorativeness arsenic the 2 batters stumbled with triumph successful sight.

Jacob Bethell besides fell to a dreadful shot, piling the unit connected England.

England had been acceptable to execute its astir audacious pursuit of the Bazball era, and the second-highest successful its history, with evident ease. But its precocious stumble started erstwhile Brook threw his bat and wicket distant against Akash Deep, skying a drawback to mid-off. The period successful his 30th trial made Brook the fastest antheral to 10 hundreds successful 70 years. Brook had made India dearly wage for not getting him retired connected 19 earlier lunch, erstwhile Mohammed Siraj caught Brook but carried it implicit the bound rope.

Then the jittery Bethell produced an disfigured swipe to resistance down his stumps, earlier Root was caught down successful a wicket maiden for Prasidh Krishna (3-109), with the hosts inactive needing different 37 runs.

Root and Brook had reversed the momentum of the lucifer successful a cruisy day league aft India won the greeting league and was heavy favoured astatine lunch.

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