- England slumped to a heavy defeat within the second Take a look at towards India
- The 5 Take a look at collection is all sq. at one apiece forward of the third Take a look at at Lord’s
England crashed to a 336-run defeat within the second Take a look at towards India at Edgbaston with the guests levelling the collection 1-1.
The hosts had accepted {that a} draw was the perfect they may hope for after being set an enormous goal of 608 to chase.
They had been unable to carry on and had been bowled out for 271 with 27 overs nonetheless in entrance of them.
Mail Sport’s Richard Gibson was at Edgbaston to price the gamers.
Ben Duckett – 5
Got here crashing again all the way down to earth following his chic show in Leeds, as Akash Deep defeated him on each edges.
Ben Duckett was unable to repeat his first Take a look at heroics with a duck and a rating of 25
Zak Crawley – 2
Twice adopted balls outdoors off stump with disastrous penalties, and in addition fluffed the prospect to restrict India’s lead by dropping Rishabh Pant early on.
Ollie Pope – 4
Replicating earlier collection declines will now be a fear after England’s vice-captain was circled first innings by one which left him and unable to deal with additional bounce on the fifth morning.
Joe Root – 5
Can depend himself unlucky along with his dismissals: strangled down the leg-side and dispatched by a surprise ball, however a disappointing Take a look at however.
Harry Brook – 8.5
Went up and down the gears to rescue England from 84 for 5, however his involvement in a triple century stand proved immaterial in the long run.
Ben Stokes – 5
But to completely get into the collection with the bat after valuable little match preparation, and he struggled to develop the identical Headingley rhythm with the ball.
Jamie Smith – 9.5
On a special stage. Now has the very best rating by an England wicketkeeper and his second-innings 88 has taken him to inside three runs of 1000 in simply 12 Take a look at matches.

Jamie Smith scored 272 runs over two innings and was the standout participant for the hosts
Chris Woakes – 5.5
The match would have taken a special course, however for Woakes twice being denied wickets by umpire’s name on overview, however, worryingly, his common tempo was 79 miles per hour throughout each innings.
Brydon Carse – 5
For all the trouble and a very good new-ball spell within the second innings, the Durham man completed with simply two wickets in his worst Take a look at return up to now.
Josh Tongue – 5.5
Used as a battering ram, however confirmed along with his second-innings wickets that he’s miscast in such a task.
Shoaib Bashir – 4
India are comfy sitting in towards England’s younger off-spinner, and his wickets in a match return of 71-3-286-5 had been all on account of aggression towards him.
India
Yashasvi Jaiswal 8.5, KL Rahul 6.5, Karun Nair 6, Shubman Gill 10, Rishabh Pant 8, Nitish Kumar Reddy 2, Ravindra Jadeja 8, Washington Sundar 6.5, Akash Deep 9.5, Mohammed Siraj 9.5, Prasidh Krishna 5.5