India struggle in England Test decider with captain Gill run out

India adjacent time 1 of the 5th and last Test of their circuit of England connected 204-6 with skipper Shubman Gill was tally out.

England gained the precocious manus aft a rain-hit archetypal time of the last Test against India astatine The Oval arsenic the tourists, needing triumph to quadrate the series, battled to 204-6, with each their large guns dismissed cheaply.

England had to enactment hard for their breakthroughs connected Thursday and volition beryllium delighted to person got escaped of KL Rahul, Ravindra Jadeja and Shubman Gill, the men who person tormented them recently, though skipper Gill talented his wicket with a suicidal run-out.

Even though determination are 4 days remaining, India’s chances of warring their mode into a presumption wherever they could unit a triumph already look highly slim.

The overcast greeting conditions had looked perfect for England’s all-seam attack, adjacent without injured skipper Ben Stokes, but they lacked a cutting edge.

Recalled Gus Atkinson trapped Yashasvi Jaiswal lbw for 2 arsenic stand-in skipper Ollie Pope yet got connected the close broadside of a DRS reappraisal aft 14 unsuccessful appeals past year.

Rahul, with much than 500 runs to his sanction from the archetypal 4 matches, looked comparatively untroubled earlier playing connected to Chris Woakes for 14 arsenic India reached luncheon connected 72-2.

Gill, averaging much than 90 and with 4 centuries to his sanction successful the series, past inexplicably acceptable disconnected for a non-existent azygous and was tally retired by 4 yards arsenic bowler Atkinson had clip to transportation the shot to his close manus earlier throwing down the stumps.

Gill is tally retired by a nonstop propulsion from Atkinson, left, during time 1 of the 5th Test [Gareth Copley/Getty Images]

Gill had started the time with each sorts of records successful his sights but, by adding lone 21, helium achieved lone a mates arsenic his tally of 743 took him beyond West Indies’ Garfield Sobers (722 successful 1966) arsenic the highest-scoring visiting skipper and besides moved him into the apical 9 for the astir runs scored successful a bid successful England – either for oregon against the hosts.

After a rain-delayed restart, a wayward Josh Tongue, whose archetypal implicit lasted 9 balls and went for 12 runs, yet recovered his enactment to nip the borderline of Sai Sudharsan’s bat to disregard him for 38.

Tongue repeated the feat soon afterwards to region Jadeja – who scored a superb unbeaten period successful his team’s rearguard enactment successful the 4th trial – for 9 and India were reeling connected 123-5 with their big-hitters each gone, oregon successful the lawsuit of Rishabh Pant, absent done injury.

Dhruv Jurel, a shot aft overturning an lbw determination against him, past got tucked up by Atkinson and was caught neatly astatine 2nd gaffe by Harry Brook for 19.

Karun Nair batted calmly to decorativeness connected 52 not out, and Washington Sundar, different centurion past Sunday, was connected 19 astatine the adjacent arsenic the awesome Atkinson finished the time with figures of 2 for 31 disconnected 19 overs.

It was a little enjoyable time for Woakes, who suffered a serious-looking enarthrosis wounded aft falling heavy arsenic helium dived to effort to forestall a bound successful the last overs.

Karun Nair of India celebrates reaching his half-century during time 1 [Shaun Botterill/Getty Images]

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