IND vs ENG: No Virat, no Rohit and no Bumrah, still India won, how did the new boys shatter the pride of Edgbaston?

India beat England 2nd test: 'Gabba's pride was broken in 2021'. Now, after four years, Team India has shattered the pride of Edgbaston. Then Australia was defeated by a team that neither had Virat nor Bumrah. This time, too, the story is similar. India hoisted the tricolor without its star players, with a young captain and a new face, where we had not won to date. The victory was also not an ordinary one but historic. India's biggest win on foreign soil in terms of runs.

It was considered weak before the tour.

On Sunday, the Indian team defeated England by a huge margin of 336 runs at Edgbaston in Birmingham. The team did not have a star to break the 58-year-old myth. Despite the sudden retirement of Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma before the tour and Bumrah not playing the match due to workload, the newly-appointed captain, Shubman Gill, gave the victory.

Akashdeep changed the course of the match.

In the absence of Jasprit Bumrah, not much was expected from the Indian fast bowling attack, but Akashdeep completely changed this thinking by bowling a spell that changed the course of the match. Akashdeep, a resident of Sasaram district of Bihar, shook the feet of the British by taking four wickets in the first innings and six in the second innings.

Shubman Gill had laid the foundation of victory.

The foundation of this victory was laid by captain Shubman Gill, who scored a lot of runs, scoring 269 runs in the first innings and 161 runs in the second innings. With this, Gill became the first Indian captain to score a double century in the SENA countries. Not only this, but no one before him had scored 400+ in a match to date.

The talk of victory is incomplete without Siraj.

Mohammed Siraj took a total of seven wickets in the match. While leading the bowling in the first innings, he allowed England to score only 407 runs, but he took brilliant catches in the second innings. In Bumrah's absence, he played the role of a senior very well. He kept motivating Akashdeep and was seen talking to him throughout the match.

The series was tied 1-1

This way India tied the five-match series 1-1. England had won the first Test in Leeds by five wickets. India had set an impossible target of 608 runs for England on the fourth day of the match. While chasing it, the team was all out at 271 runs. Due to rain, the last day's play started with a delay of one hour and 40 minutes. At one point, it seemed that rain might become the villain in the victory.

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