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culminating in India’s thrilling six-run win to draw the series 2-2 in the final Test at The Oval, the lion-hearted Mohammed Siraj for his matchwinning five-wicket haul and the series as a whole for 25 days of captivating Test cricket.
Vaughan said that England needed just “one steady head” who took a measured approach to chasing down the total, no matter how long it took. Stokes shrugged off any suggestion that Brook had cost his team despite scoring his 10th Test century, in just his 30th Test match. “And maybe from this, the people below him, once put under pressure in a certain situation, may collapse in a heap.“So next time, even though it’s your shot, play the situation to get your team closer to the line.Those that came after Brook did collapse in a heap.
The entire final day was one big moment of madness, there was no cool head to see England home, and the inability to secure a series win ultimately goes down as an indictment on the Bazball regime. New captain Shubman Gill’s knocks of 269 and 161 at Edgbaston inspired them to a series-levelling victory after being the better side for four days in the series opener at Leeds before England motored down the target of 371 on the final day, led by Ben Duckett’s 149.
“56 minutes of hell. 56 minutes of heaven,” was how ESPN Cricinfo’s Vithushan Ehantharajah described the final day’s play.It was a fitting end to a series where every day felt like a box office event. “For all the bullshit, the moments of head-scratch, the infuriating asides, these lunatics are producing something entirely new,” Ronay wrote.
Zak Crawley and Ollie Pope shut down talk of being ousted at the start of the English summer with centuries against Zimbabwe, but no one really learned anything about the pair across the five Tests against India.He took the reins in Stokes’ absence at The Oval, but Vaughan believes that going forward Brook should be handed such a responsibility instead.
“But it seems he cannot resist throwing his hands at the ball at the very start of his innings. He does not have the technique of a No 3 either when his head falls to the offside and he plays across the line.”
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