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- NDTV
On Shubman Gill's Run Out Blunder, India Coach's Big Admission: "These Mistakes..."
Team India assistant coach Ryan ten Doeschate opened up on the unfortunate run out of captain Shubman Gill on Day 1 of the 5th Test against England at The Oval. Gill showed signs of promise while batting under tough conditions, but a momentarily lapse in concentration ended his knock. He misjudged a single and was run out for 21 off 35 balls by returning England pacer Gus Atkinson. Speaking at a press conference after Stumps on Day 1, ten Doeschate defended Gill, but admitted that the run out must've been frustrating for the player as he is enjoying the form of his life. "I'm assuming not as frustrating as it is for him. He's in the touch of his life. Again, today he made batting look really easy for the 40 minutes or whatever he was out there. But you know, these mistakes do happen. England actually bowled nicely in that little spell," said the former Dutch international. Doeschate also emphasised the importance of strike rotation, suggesting that the run out came from a place of intent rather than carelessness. "I guess it's getting that balance right of trying to keep the pressure on the bowlers and the fielders, and taking the runs where you can. But that's a misjudgment of a run. And I think given what he's done in the first four Tests, we'll let him get away with that one," he added. On Day 1, Gill shattered legendary Sunil Gavaskar 's record for the most runs by an Indian captain in a Test series. In 1978-79, the "Little Master" had garnered 732 runs during a home series against the West Indies, during six Tests and nine innings at an average of 91.50, with four centuries and a fifty. His best score was 205. Gill breezed past Gavaskar by piling up 737 runs in nine innings at an average of 92.12, with four centuries in nine innings and his best score of 269. Notably, Gill is also the highest run-getter in the five-match contest. The 25-year-old stands 38 runs shy of becoming the Indian with the most runs in a bilateral Test series, a record which Gavaskar holds. He could have achieved the feat during the first innings after flaunting his robust technique under London's gloomy sky. However, in a lapse of concentration, Atkinson picked the ball and sent the timber rattling to have Gill run out on 21(35). After Gill's return, Karun Nair steadied the sinking ship with his unbeaten 52(98) to steer India to 204/6 at the end of the day's play.
Time of India
2 hours ago
- Climate
- Time of India
India vs England weather, rain forecast: Why bad news for India from The Oval
Sahil Malhotra from TOI Sports breaks down why the weather forecast for the Oval Test could spell bad news for Team India. With rain and overcast conditions predicted, can India still pull off a fightback — or will the skies shut the door on a win?
India.com
3 hours ago
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- India.com
1 in 32,768! India's Unbelievable Toss Losing Streak Hits 15 In Final Test vs England
In a sequence that defies probability and borders on the bizarre, Team India scripted an unprecedented low in international cricket by losing their 15th consecutive toss across all formats. The latest blow came at the Oval in London, where England's stand-in captain Ollie Pope won the toss and elected to bowl first in the fifth and final Test of the Anderson-Tendulkar Trophy. India's Test captain Shubman Gill, who has now lost five tosses in a row in this series alone, seemed unflustered on the surface but couldn't escape the growing scrutiny around this strange streak. The odds of losing 15 straight tosses, each with a 50-50 chance, stand at a staggering 1 in 32,768 — a statistical improbability that has now become a stark reality. Unbelievable Toss Losing Streak Becomes Historic India's toss-losing run, which began in January 2025, includes 2 T20Is, 8 ODIs, and now 5 Test matches. The last time an Indian skipper won a toss was during a T20I against England in Rajkot under Suryakumar Yadav. Since then, it's been a never-ending downward spiral of coin-flip defeats, culminating in a world record that no team would want. Previous records include the West Indies' 12 consecutive toss losses in 1999 and England's 11 between 2022 and 2023. India's current streak now sits atop that unfortunate list. Oval Test Begins with Four Changes for Both Sides With conditions overcast and some green on the pitch, Pope had no hesitation in bowling first — especially with swing likely to aid the pacers early on. "Bit overcast, no-brainer to have a bowl on this pitch,' Pope said after winning the toss. 'We bat deep. We're not here to settle for a draw, we want to win it." England made four changes, including resting regular captain Ben Stokes due to a shoulder injury. Also missing were Jofra Archer, Liam Dawson, and Brydon Carse. New faces like Jacob Bethell and Jamie Smith added youthful exuberance to the lineup. India responded with their own shuffle. Out went star pacer Jasprit Bumrah, wicketkeeper Rishabh Pant, all-rounder Shardul Thakur, and batter Cheteshwar Pujara. In came promising talents: Akash Deep, Dhruv Jurel, Karun Nair, and Prasidh Krishna. 'We don't mind losing the toss if we win the game,' Shubman Gill stated. 'The wicket looks good despite the overcast. If we can put up a good total in the first innings, we're confident the bowlers will deliver.' India's Playing XI: A Blend of Youth and Experience Batters: Yashasvi Jaiswal, KL Rahul, Sai Sudharsan, Shubman Gill (c), Karun Nair All-rounders/WK: Ravindra Jadeja, Dhruv Jurel (wk), Washington Sundar Bowlers: Akash Deep, Prasidh Krishna, Mohammed Siraj England's XI saw Joe Root return to form alongside Pope, with the exciting Harry Brook and Zak Crawley forming a solid top order. The bowling unit, led by Chris Woakes and supported by Atkinson, Overton, and Tongue, looks lethal in English conditions. Can Gill Break the Curse? While losing tosses doesn't directly impact the scoreboard, it can influence match strategy — especially in Tests, where overhead conditions and pitch freshness play a major role. For Shubman Gill, a captain yet to win a toss, the mental challenge grows with every flip. However, Gill's positive outlook and India's consistent team performances offer hope. The side has come agonizingly close to wins throughout the series — often missing out by fine margins. With this being the series decider, the team will be keen to push that extra 5-10% Gill spoke of and finish on a high.
Indian Express
12 hours ago
- Sport
- Indian Express
IND vs ENG: How Karun Nair with his guts and defiance proved packing an extra man was worth it
It was for a day like this India has been overloading its playing eleven with batsmen. The extra batsman embedded in the middle order came in handy as India endured their first real English day of the tour in the final Test of this close to two-month long tour. Karun Nair's inclusion, in place of all-rounder Shardul Thakur, increased India's bat-count to 8 and also helped India's to reach 204/6, a respectable score in these challenging conditions. The day's top scorer was Nair on an unbeaten 52 and giving him company was the ever-reliable Washington Sundar on 19. Batting at No.5, Nair played an exceptional knock as he countered the swing and seam movement. He scored his runs in the final session that was played under lights and cloud cover. He would leave the length ball and wait for the short ones to punch to cover. 𝙆𝙖𝙧𝙪𝙣 𝙘𝙧𝙖𝙛𝙩𝙨 𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙚𝙗𝙖𝙘𝙠 💪 With #TeamIndia in trouble early, #KarunNair's composed fifty rescued the innings on Day 1, keeping the hosts in the fight during a tense series finale 🤩 Catch Day 1 HIGHLIGHTS ➡ #ENGvIND 👉 5th TEST, DAY 2… — Star Sports (@StarSportsIndia) July 31, 2025 There was also a Nair straight drive that went onto hurt England the most. Chasing the ball, Chris Woakes tumbled across the fence and hurt his shoulder. Him using his sweater as a harness to his shoulder wasn't a great sight. It looks unlikely that the England all-rounder would take any part in this Test. Thus, England had a chance to nose ahead in the Test but they failed. The Test had started with Oval exhibiting everything that touring batsmen from the subcontinent hate. The pitching had green shoots and life, there were intermittent showers and England had drafted for this Test three tall grizzly pacer in Gus Atkinson, Josh Tongue and Jamie Overton to bowl with senior pace pro Chris Woakes. This was England's chance to engineer a collapse, blow away the Indian batting line-up. Maybe, carried away by the easily available swing and seam moment, they couldn't find their range and target. In the first session, an erratic England bowling attack failed to take advantage of the murkiness in the air. The first three wickets to fall had hardly anything to do with the conditions. Yashasvi Jaiswal got out to an in-coming ball, the kind a new ball bowler bowls all the time, regardless of the temperature and moisture in the air. KL Rahul tried cutting a ball that was too close to him and was out played on. And when Shubman was run out, paying for his misjudgment of a quick single, India were 83/3. England would have smelled a collapse but their bowlers weren't that disciplined. Oval today came to know that there are two ways of bowling on a pace-friendly track. One is the tried and tested Glenn McGrath method – pitching the ball on the handkerchief size square outside the off-stump and making the ball move both ways. Then there is the Josh Tongue 'don't try it home' formula. This is how it is done. Spray the ball all over the pitch, bowl a few atrocious wides and don't allow a batsman to get into a rhythm. And in between come up sharp in-coming balls. In a spell where he toggled between sublime and ridiculous, Overton got the crucial wickets of the best batsman on the day, Sai Sudharsan, and the hardest to dismiss batsman in this series, Ravindra Jadeja. Both were foxed by the 'blow cold for all day, blow hot for a few balls' Tongue. Jadeja and Sudharsan looked good till they got those unplayable balls. All through his 108-balls stay, Sudharsan showed a tight technique when dealing with the moving ball. Against the right-handed English pacers, bowling round the wicket to the left-hander, he had a nice tight plan. Standing on the middle-leg stump, he took a tiny stride forward, moved his right-leg forward and across and placed it exactly in line with the off-stump. That front-foot was his marker, the gatekeeper for the downswing of the bat. Sudharsan would hide his bat behind the right-leg and react to the trajectory of the ball. In case the ball was headed towards his front foot, which also meant in line of the stumps, the bat instinctually came down to meet the ball. If the ball was outside the line of the right-leg, planted in the line of the off-stump, Sudharsan would withdraw his bat gracefully, like the swing of a pendulum. The foot planted on the off-stump has its pitfalls. Batsmen tend to overbalance when dealing with full balls. This happened to Sudharsan once as he stumbled over while digging out a yorker by Overton. Made it count & how 👏 Wickets kept tumbling at the other end, but he stood tall. A fighting fifty for #KarunNair, his first 50+ score since that iconic triple ton! 💪#ENGvIND 👉 5th TEST, DAY 1 | LIVE NOW on JioHotstar 👉 — Star Sports (@StarSportsIndia) July 31, 2025 This off-side commitment also can result in the batsman edging the balls to leg-slip. England have got him out in that fashion in this series and they continue to hope he keeps repeating the mistake. At Oval, Sudharsan was out edging a ball to the slips. His 'front foot' had perfectly guided him to decide which ball to play or leave but the error was committed in dealing with the ball that came in sharply. Sudharsan was watchful, he had his head over the ball but the conditions were making the ball fly at speed that it was not easy to keep middling the ball at Oval on Day 1. Jadeja too employs the same method as Sudharsan. He too withdrew his bat from the line of the ball with the same grace. He also got out in a similar fashion. He too was judging the line of the ball expertly and also not missing a chance to score runs. When Overton bowled a short ball, he ramped it over the slips to score a boundary. But the very next ball, he would get an unplayable ball. Jadeja couldn't have left the ball since the nip-backer was headed to the stumps. However, once again it was difficult to ride the bounce and tap it to the feet. The ball rose sharply and touched the shoulder of the bat and landed in the hands of the wicket-keeper. Jadeja was going out and walking in was Washington – one Manchester hero being replaced by another. He and Nair forged an unbeaten 51-run partnership and take India past 200. India were going from a respectable total to a challenging one. This unputdownable team keeps finding new heroes and bouncing back.
India.com
14 hours ago
- Sport
- India.com
WATCH: Shubman Gill run out after costly mistake in 5th Test vs England at Oval
Shubman Gill run out at the Oval. (PIC - X) New Delhi: Team India's captain Shubman Gill got out during day 1 of the fifth Test against England with a huge mistake on Thursday. Talking about the blunder, it happened during the 28th over of Team India's innings as Shubman Gill defended a full-ish delivery from Gus Atkinson. How did the blunder happen? The blunder happened when Shubman Gill played a normal defensive shot and then suddenly decided to go for a quick single. The call caught Sai Sudharsan off-guard on the non-striker's end and even the left-hander declined the call. But Shubman Gill was already halfway down the pitch as Atkinson recahed the ball. The England bowler had so much time to take aim at the stumps and when the ball hit the stumps, Shubman Gill was nowhere near his crease and India were handed a big blow. Where to watch the video? Quick call gone wrong. A moment of madness, and Captain Gill's back in the pavilion #SonySportsNetwork #ENGvIND #NayaIndia #DhaakadIndia #TeamIndia #ExtraaaInnings — Sony Sports Network (@SonySportsNetwk) July 31, 2025 Indian Cricket Team's legendary player Sunil Gavaskar was surprised by Shubman Gill's wicket and called it 'suicidal'. Gavaskar also said that it was a massive blow for India. What did Sunil Gavaskar say? 'It was suicidal. I do not know what happened. What was his mind space when he looked for that single. There was honestly no run in it. So this is a huge blow and you can already see it. He was hoping against hope that the bowler would miss the stumps,' Gavaskar said during his analysis.
