England vs India 1st Test at Birmingham, 01 Aug, 2018

Toss: England, who chose to bat
England 287/10 (89.4)  &  180/10 (53)
India 274/10 (76)  &  162/10 (54.2)
England won by 31 runs
Man of the Match: Sam Curran
  • Umesh Yadav 0 * (8)

Over 1.5 SCJ Broad bowls a pitched up delivery to Murali Vijay, Boundary! Comes on to the front foot and driven beautifully with the full face of the bat through mid-on and the ball raced away to the fence for four.

Over 5.3 SCJ Broad bowls a pitched up delivery to Shikhar Dhawan, Boundary! Gets a good stride forward, leans on the drive and places it into the gap wide of mid-off, no need to run for those.

Over 7.6 SCJ Broad bowls a good length delivery to Murali Vijay, Boundary! Gets on top of the bounce and punches it on the back foot through cover and the ball raced away to the fence for four.

Over 8.2 JM Anderson bowls a pitched up delivery to Shikhar Dhawan, Boundary! Gets across the line on the back foot and whips it beautifully through square leg and the ball raced away to the fence for four.

Over 9.6 Sam Curran slips in a full toss to Murali Vijay, Boundary! Leans forward and driven along the ground through extra cover and the ball raced away to the fence for four.

Over 13.5 Sam Curran bowls a good length delivery to Lokesh Rahul, Boundary! Gets forward and looks to defend and the ball runs off the thick edge wide of backward point. Rahul will take it.

Over 15.3 Sam Curran bowls a pitched up delivery to Shikhar Dhawan, Boundary! Gets forward and driving against the swing, the ball takes a thick outside edge, just wide of the leaping left-hand of Jennings.

Over 19.4 Sam Curran bowls a good length delivery to Virat Kohli, Boundary! Gets forward and open the face of the bat and run it down to third man fence for four.

Over 21.1 Ben Stokes bowls it short of length to Virat Kohli, Boundary! Gets on top of the bounce and punches it down to deep point fence for four.

Over 21.3 Ben Stokes bowls a pitched up delivery to Virat Kohli, Boundary! Takes a small step towards the ball and then drives handsomely through cover. Fantastic balance as ball hit bat.

Over 24.2 JM Anderson bowls a good length delivery to Virat Kohli, Boundary! Just in front of the diving Bairstow, who gets a glove but can't stop it cleanly. 

Over 27.3 Ben Stokes bowls a back of length delivery to Ajinkya Rahane, Boundary! Goes deep in the crease and steers it down to third man fence for four.

Over 33.2 Ben Stokes bowls a good length delivery to Hardik Pandya, Boundary! Gets forward and tries to push at it, the ball takes the outside edge and the ball raced away to the fence for four.

Over 33.3 Ben Stokes bowls a back of length delivery to Hardik Pandya, Boundary! Shuffles across on the back foot and helps it down to fine leg fence for four.

Over 38.3SCJ Broad to Virat Kohli Boundary! ...

Over 38.6SCJ Broad to Virat Kohli Boundary! ...

Over 41.6 Sam Curran bowls a pitched up delivery to Hardik Pandya, Boundary! Comes on to the front foot and driven along the ground to the long-off fence for four.

Over 42.2 SCJ Broad bowls a pitched up delivery to Virat Kohli, Boundary! Gets forward and drives it square of the wicket on the off-side and the ball raced away to the fence for four.

Over 42.5 SCJ Broad bowls a good length delivery to Virat Kohli, Boundary! Shuffling across, but the line is not right - on leg-stump and that is easy pickings for Kohli, tickled away fine.

Over 46.3 Ben Stokes bowls it short of length to Virat Kohli, Boundary!  Gets on top of the bounce and steers it with control to the vacant third man region and gets the boundary.

Over 47.5 Sam Curran bowls a good length delivery to Ravichandran Ashwin, Boundary! Goes deep in the crease and open the face of the bat and run it down to third man fence for four.

Over 48.6JM Anderson bowls short of length delivery to Virat Kohli, goes back and cuts it away straight to backward point.Boundary!

Over 49.1Sam Curran bowls pitched up delivery to Ravichandran Ashwin, flicks it off his pads towards the fine leg region.Boundary!

Over 51.3 Sam Curran bowls a good length delivery to Virat Kohli, 1 run, gets forward and works it down to deep square leg and gets a single.

Over 57.1 Sam Curran bowls a pitched up delivery to Virat Kohli, Boundary! Gets  clearing his front leg and nails the flick past the diving mid-wicket fielder, raced away

Over 57.2 Sam Curran bowls it short of length to Virat Kohli, Boundary! Hangs back and guides it wide of the cordon. No third man and he took advantage of that.

Over 64.5 Ben Stokes bowls a good length delivery to Virat Kohli, Boundary! Stays on the back foot and cracks the cut to the right of backward point, Buttler puts a valiant dive near the fence.

Over 64.6 Ben Stokes bowls it short of length to Virat Kohli, Boundary! Gets quickly rocks back onto the back foot and nails the pull wide of mid-on, Broad does not even bother to chase it down.

Over 66.5Ben Stokes to Virat Kohli Boundary! ...

Over 69.1Adil Rashid to Virat Kohli Boundary! ...

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