Washington’s very ‘beautiful’ batting, India gave England a target of 374 runs; this has never happened in 123 years
Washington Sundar good Batting oval Test Second Innings: India’s second innings in the Oval Test has ended. Team India scored 396 runs. In this way, now England will have to score 374 runs to win the match. Yashasvi Jaiswal and Akashdeep played an important role in taking Team India to this total. Apart from these two, Washington Sundar played a very ‘beautiful’ innings in the end.
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Team India’s first innings in the Oval Test ended at 224 runs. In the reply innings, England scored 247 runs and took a lead of 23 runs. After this, India’s batsmen gave a wonderful performance in the second innings and the guests scored more than 390 runs.
Yashasvi Jaiswal and Akashdeep did wonders
Yashasvi Jaiswal and Akashdeep played a big role in taking Team India to a big score in the second innings. There was an important partnership of 107 runs between the two for the third wicket. During this, Akashdeep, who came in as a nightwatchman, played an important innings of 66 runs. His innings included 12 fours. This was Akashdeep’s first half-century in Test cricket.
Shortly after Akashdeep was out, Jaiswal crossed the 100-run mark. This was the second century from his bat on the England tour. This young left-handed opener scored 118 runs in 164 balls, which included 12 fours and 2 skyscraper sixes.
Fifty from Washington Sundar’s bat
Team India had lost 9 wickets by the score of 357 and it seemed that this innings would end soon. But Washington Sundar did not let this happen. He asked Prasidh Krishna to stand firm at one end and himself attacked the English bowlers. He played a quick innings of 53 runs in 46 balls. During this, he hit 4 fours and as many sixes. In this way, Team India managed to score 396 runs. Now England has a target of 374 runs to win. Such a big score has never been chased in a Test match at the Oval.
