Know what Ashwin said in his 100th test

IND vs ENG: The Indian team is currently playing a five-match Test series with England. India won the fourth Test played in Ranchi and won the series 3-1. The fifth match is being played in Dharamshala. Where the spin bowlers of the Indian team Ravichandran Ashwin Played his 100th test match. For achieving this feat, India’s head coach Rahul Dravid honored him before the match. Ashwin, one of the most successful all-rounders of the modern era, apart from thanking his family for playing the 100th Test of his career, also gave credit to Ajinkya Rahane, Cheteshwar Pujara, Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma.

IND vs ENG: It is impenetrable: Ashwin

Ashwin told The Cricket Monthly, ‘I mean, I was lucky and blessed to have Ajinkya Rahane and Cheteshwar Pujara at slip and leg slip. I always had Virat Kohli at short midwicket, Pujara at leg slip, Ajinkya at slip. It is impenetrable. If I had to thank anyone other than my family, it would be those three. Rohit took some catches at short leg. Rohit has replaced Ajinkya in the slips.

IND vs ENG: Ravi Shastri praised Gill’s catch

While commenting, former head coach of the Indian team Ravi Shastri also praised this catch of Gill. He also told that he ran back for about 20 to 25 feet and then caught him. If you run so far ahead and catch the catch, it seems possible, but it is not easy to turn back and run and then keep your eyes on the ball. Many times the ball goes away from you and you do not come under the ball properly. However, Shubman Gill did not let anything like this happen and he took a brilliant catch.

IND vs ENG: 112 year old record may be broken

The Indian team seems to be in good form in this series. For the seventh time, India has registered a comeback win after losing the first test match. If the Indian team wins the fifth Test match being played from today, then it will make a historic record in Test history after 112 years. This record is of losing the first match in a 5-match Test series and winning all the next four matches. This has happened only three times so far in the history of Test cricket. The first happened during 1897-98. Then Australia had achieved this feat against England in the Ashes series. After this, Australia repeated this achievement for the second time also. They defeated England 4-1 in the Ashes series 1901/02.

IND vs ENG: Devdutt Padikkal gets a chance in the fifth test

The biggest reason for Devdutt Padikkal getting a chance in the Dharamsala Test was the failure of Rajat Patidar, who has not played a single big inning in the 6 innings of the 3 Tests of the series. Patidar scored 32 runs in his first inning of his Test career but after that his scores in the next 5 innings were 9, 5, 0, 17 and 0.

IND vs ENG: This happened for the second time in Indian cricket

This is the second time in the history of Indian cricket, when five players have made their debut in the same series. Earlier, this was seen during the 2020-21 Australia tour, where players like Shubman Gill, Mohammad Siraj, T. Natarajan, Washington Sundar made their debut. However, in that series where young players got a chance to debut due to injuries to senior players. At the same time, due to the debut of the players in the current series, the team needs them more.

IND vs ENG: Padikkal is in form

Devdutt Padikkal is a left-handed batsman and is in excellent form at the moment. If we talk about his last six innings played in first class cricket, he has three centuries and one half-century in his name. His first class career has lasted a total of 31 matches, in which he has scored 2227 runs at an average of 44.54. During this period, Padikkal has scored six centuries and 12 half-centuries.

IND vs ENG: India’s playing 11 for the 5th test

Yashasvi Jaiswal, Rohit Sharma (captain), Shubman Gill, Devdutt Padikkal, Ravindra Jadeja, Sarfaraz Khan, Dhruv Jurel (wicketkeeper), Ravichandran Ashwin, Kuldeep Yadav, Mohammed Siraj, Jasprit Bumrah.

IND vs ENG: England’s playing 11

Zak Crawley, Ben Duckett, Ollie Pope, Joe Root, Ben Stokes (c), Jonny Bairstow, Ben Fox (wk), Tom Hartley, Shoaib Bashir, Mark Wood, James Anderson