IND VS ENG - 1st Test, England tour of India, 2024

All the talk leading into the series was about how Bazball will fare against the spinners. They've certainly won the first round. There was a vast difference in terms of experience between the two teams in the spin department. Things got worse for the visitors with Jack Leach having a niggle for most parts of the Test. But England found a way to come out on top. Stokes's crucial runs with the lower-order, Root's four-fer, Pope's incredible ton ... England, however, will be most pleased with Hartley's performance. He was taken to the cleaners by Jaiswal in his opening spell on day one but the debutant bowled beautifully today to pick seven wickets in an innings. It'll be interesting to see how India react after this loss. While most of their batters got out playing the big shots in the first essay, they floundered against spin while being defensive today. Their opponents have a clear plan and mindset, especially with the bat. It's time to bring the curtains down on this brilliant Test match. It's England 1 -- 0 India! Four more to go with the next one commencing on Friday at Visakhapatnam. Until then, it's goodbye from Abhinand Raghavendran, Pradeep Krishnamurthy and Harish.

Ollie Pope | Player of the Match: 100 percent (best knock). To come here to India, probably the toughest place for a batter, to start the series like this, to do it in a winning cause, heads and shoulders above the other four (hundreds). I got a bit luckier in the second innings. I played and missed a few. First up, I was at peace with getting out caught at slip like I did in the first. I was focused on covering the inside edge. I knew that was the real danger ball. I maintained that mindset and really wanted to be positive with my sweep and reverse sweep. I have changed my technique slightly for this series specifically. I had a shoulder surgery, so I had a long time to prepare for this series. Made some adjustments, worked hard on my game. The family have had early starts throughout the week, they can finally get some sleep, will be nice catching up with them.

Ben Stokes: Since I have taken the captaincy on, we have had a lot of fantastic moments as a team. We've got a lot of great victories, we've been part of some amazing games. Where we are and who were playing against, this victory is probably, 100% definitely, our greatest triumph. It's my first time coming out here being a captain. I am a great observer of the game. I learned a lot from our first innings in the field. I watched how Indian spinners operated, how Rohit set the field and tried to take a lot of that into our innings. Absolutely thrilled for everyone. Tom Hartley on debut getting nine wickets, Ollie Pope coming back after his shoulder surgery, incredible effort from everyone. Tom came into the squad for the first time. A lot of confidence given to him. I was willing to give him longer spells regardless of what happened because I knew I had to turn back to him at some point. We completely back people who we have been selected. I have been lucky enough to play a lot of Test matches in the subcontinent. Same Joe Root, I have seen some pretty special innings from him. But the situation we found ourselves in, coming in at No. 3, the shots he played, 190 on such a difficult wicket, he was able to manipulate the field with sweep shots and reverse-sweeps, the way he was able to rotate the strike, I think that's the greatest innings that's ever been played in subcontinent by an English batsman. If you lose, you wake up in the morning, you're still having a good crack at life, still breathing, got another four games after this. I don't fear failure, all I want to do is try and encourage whoever finds themselves lucky enough to be in this squad.

Rohit Sharma: Cricket is played over four days, so it's hard to pinpoint where it went wrong. Having got a lead of 190, we thought we were very much in the game. Exceptional batting, one of the best that I have seen in Indian conditions by an overseas batter, Ollie Pope played a brilliant knock. I thought 230 was gettable, there wasn't too much in the pitch. We didn't bat well enough to get to the score. I went and checked where we bowled, we bowled in the right areas.When you finish the day, you analyse what went well and what didn't go well. The bowlers executed the plans really well, but you got to take your hat off and say well played to Pope. That was some serious knock. Hard to look at one or two things. Overall, we failed as a team. After the first innings of their batting and our batting, I thought we were very much in the game. We didn't bat well enough to get to that score. I wanted them (Siraj and Bumrah) to take the game to the fifth day. 20-30 runs, anything is possible. The lower order actually fought really well there and showed the top-order that you need to fight it out. You need to show character, you need to be brave enough, which I thought we weren't. We wanted to take some chances, we didn't take chances with the bat. But that can happen. It's the first game of the series, I hope the guys can learn from that.

Stats by Deepu Narayanan

Highest 1st innings lead overturned to win a Test in India
274 Ind vs Aus Kolkata 2001 (Won by 171 runs)
190 Eng vs Ind Hyderabad 2024 (28 runs) *
99 Ind vs Aus Mumbai WS 2005 (13 runs)
95 Ind vs WI Delhi 2011 (5 wkts)
87 Ind vs Aus Bengaluru 2017 (75 runs)
Previous highest by a visiting team: 65 by Australia at Chennai CS in 1964 (139 runs)

Highest 1st innings lead resulting in a defeat for India
192 vs SL Galle 2015
190 vs Eng Hyderabad 2024
132 vs Eng Birmingham 2022
80 vs Aus Adelaide 1992
69 vs Aus Sydney 2008
Previous highest in India: 65 by Australia at Chennai CS in 1964 (139 runs)

Highest total in a home defeat for India
449 vs Pak Bengaluru 2005
436 vs Eng Hyderabad 2024
424 vs Aus Bengaluru 1998
412 vs Eng Chennai 1985
406 vs WI Mumbai WS 1975

Narrowest Test defeats for India by runs
12 vs Pak Chennai 1999
16 vs Aus Brisbane 1977
16 vs Pak Bengaluru 1987
28 vs Eng Hyderabad 2024
31 vs Eng Birmingham 2018

No wickets for England seamers in a Test in post war era (since 1945)
vs Ind Kanpur 1952
vs Aus Manchester 1956
vs SL Pallekele 2018
vs Ind Hyderabad 2024
* where they have taken all 20 opposition wkts

7/62 by Tom Hartley is the best figures for an England spinner on Test debut in the post-war era (since 1945) and nine wickets by him in a match is the joint-most since Robert Berry's 9/116 vs West Indies in Manchester in 1950

Tom Hartley: It's unbelievable, will not sink in for a while to be honest. I don't think there was a lot of help, I had to keep a cool head. It was a tough one (on the first innings bowling effort), it didn't spin as much as I thought, and I had a chat with Stokes, McCullum and the team management. The dressing room has great vibes, it's a fantastic dressing room, one of the best. It's just the Stokes way, just bowl into the surface and we came out on top today. Getting a few runs always helps (on his second innings batting effort), it also helped me get to know about the pitch a lot more. Just unbelievable to be honest. I didn't have to bowl as fast as I thought (in the first innings), watching Ash and Jadeja, we knew we could take some time - change the length and the trajectory when we bowled for the second time.

Pope wasn't done! After making a marvellous 196, he put on the helmet again to play a role as a close-in fielder. Took two sharp catches in the same over off Hartley's bowling to remove Jaiswal and Gill. Rohit became the debutant's third victim and India were in a spot of bother. Rahul and Axar brought some calmness as they went to tea without further setbacks. But things escalated quickly in the final session with the home team losing four wickets in an hour. The England spinners were consistent with their line and length, exerted pressure and the Indians found it too hot to handle. Axar fell in the first over after tea, Rahul got out playing casually against Root, Stokes's brilliance resulted in Jadeja's downfall and Leach had Shreyas caught at slip. India were down and out at 119/7. Bharat and Ashwin forged a fifty partnership but Hartley bowled a beauty to castle Bharat. Stokes claimed the extra half an hour. Ashwin fell playing a wild stroke immediately. Siraj and Bumrah brought the target below 30 but the Indian No. 11 perished to Hartley in the final over of the day. India dominated the first two days but England turned it around in spectacular style to win this Hyderabad Test with a day to go. Stick around for the presentations...

17:32 Local Time, 12:02 GMT, 17:32 IST: West Indies at the Gabba, England in Hyderabad - two famous away Test wins on the same day. Shamar Joseph picked a seven-fer to derail the Aussies Down Under and here in India, it's debutant Tom Hartley who spun a web around the Indians to finish with a seven-fer. An incredible come-from-behind win for England. Their spinners were completely outbowled by their counterparts in the first innings. And despite picking three frontline spinners, it was Joe Root who was the most effective bowler. Almost every Indian batsman perished while trying to score a boundary and the hosts still managed to take a lead of 190. India were in the driver's seat. That's when usually most visiting teams capitulate. England/Bazball didn't. Their openers batted positively like the first innings but they were reduced to 163/5 (effectively minus 27 for five). A day three finish was very much on the cards at that stage. Once again, England/Bazball didn't give up. Ollie Pope, England's vice-captain, swept and reverse-swept to unsettle the Indian spinners. He was dropped twice after getting to his hundred and he made the Indians pay. He had his share of luck but England's No. 3 batted bravely throughout his innings. Stitched three crucial partnerships with Foakes, Rehan Ahmed and Hartley to take England into the lead, give them a glimmer of hope and then eventually a match-winning score.

Tom Hartley to Siraj, out Stumped!! Tom Hartley wraps it up! 81kph, nicely tossed up, entices the No. 11 into a big shot. Siraj dances down the track to slog it out of the ground. Gets beaten by the spin and is miles out of his crease. Foakes breaks the sticks in a jiffy. England win by 28 runs! A famous win for Stokes and Co. Siraj st Foakes b Tom Hartley 12(20) [4s-1]

Tom Hartley to Siraj, THATS OUT!! Stumped!!

Tom Hartley to Siraj, no run, spinning away outside off, Siraj doesn't chase it. Well past the outside edge

This should be the final over of the day. Can Hartley wrap it up? Or will India's no. 10 & 11 take this to day five?

Mark Wood to Bumrah, no run, 139.3kph, on a length and around off, Bumrah blocks into the off-side

Mark Wood to Siraj, leg byes, 1 run, 142kph, seams back in, Siraj gets forward to block and inside-edges onto his pad. Given as leg-byes though

Mark Wood to Bumrah, 1 run, 142.8kph, short of a good length, Bumrah hurriedly pulls towards mid-on for a single

Mark Wood to Bumrah, no run, 144.2kph, pitched up, Bumrah drives back to the bowler who deflects it onto the sticks with his rgiht hand. Siraj is in though at the non-striker's end

Mark Wood to Siraj, leg byes, 1 run, 143.8kph, back of a length, Siraj misses the tuck. Hits the batter's thigh and the batters try to steal a run, Good footwork from Wood to score a direct-hit but Bumrah is in. Easy decision for the umpire Erasmus

Mark Wood to Siraj, no run, 139.1kph, skids off the deck, Siraj is beaten for pace as he looks to blunt it into the leg-side. Beaten on the outside edge!

Mark Wood [7.0-1-14-0] is back into the attack

32 runs vs 1 wicket! Wood time and the batters want some extra protection for their arms