ENGLAND pulled off a nail-biting win over India in the First Test on the final day at Headingley.
Ben Stokes’ side were set a huge 371 to win the game, but completed an epic victory with overs to spare.
Ben Duckett smashes the ball to the boundary in his match-wininng 149[/caption]
Ben Duckett celebrates reaching his hundred[/caption]
Mohammed Siraj sums up the frustration felt by India at Headingley[/caption]
England’s most reliable batsman Joe Root who saw England over the line after Ben Duckett smashed a brilliant 149 to set up the dramatic run chase.
Duckett set the foundations with opening partner Zak Crawley, with an opening partnership of 188 runs, reducing the target by more than half.
Duckett raced to his hundred – his sixth in Tests, and his first in England‘s second innings – off 121 balls.
He was given a live on 97 by Yashasvi Jaiswal, who dropped his third catch of the match.
Crawley was out for 65, and then Shardul Thakur struck with two wickets in successive deliveries to give India hope, nabbing the wickets of Duckett and Harry Brook, who was caught out for a golden duck.
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