Shubman Gill, Ravindra Jadeja and Washington Sundar help heroic Team India draw Manchester Test
New Delhi: The last session of the fifth day of the Manchester Test is going on. Ravindra Jadeja has scored a century in 181 balls. Sundar and Jadeja did not accept the draw after Ben Stokes offered a draw in the last hour. How did Ravindra Jadeja and Washington Sundar perform?
Ravindra Jadeja and Washington Sundar made a partnership of 200 runs for the fifth wicket and brought India back into the match, and resulted the match into a draw. India had a lead of 11 runs till the tea break. Earlier, till lunch, India scored 223 runs at the loss of 4 wickets. What happened on day 5?
On the fifth day, India lost two important wickets of KL Rahul and captain Shubman Gill in the first session of the day. KL Rahul became the victim of Ben Stokes on a score of 90. While captain Gill scored the 9th century of his career and the fourth century of the series. Gill and Rahul shared a partnership of 188 runs for the third wicket. Where is Rishabh Pant?
Due to Rishabh Pant's injury, the Indian batting line-up lacks strength after Jadeja and Sundar, so both of them will have to continue their batting in the same manner. The problem for England was that left-arm spinner Liam Dawson (70 runs in 39 overs without any success) could not give enough challenge to the Indian left-handed batsmen. Jofra Archer also could not achieve any success after lunch.
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