By Ravi - Jun 25, 2025 01:25 PM
Team India maintained a strong hold throughout the match, where it dominated the match on the first two days, England also snatched the match easily. Vice-captain Rishabh Pant scored a century in both the innings, while Gill, Yashasvi and KL Rahul also scored centuries. India scored 835 runs in both the innings, but despite this England defeated them. In such a situation, let us know the 5 big mistakes due to which India lost the match which was won.
In the first innings, India scored 430/3 thanks to centuries from Yashasvi Jaiswal, Shubman Gill and Rishabh Pant. It seemed that the team could score close to 600, but what happened was that India was all out for 471 runs and lost 7 wickets for just 41 runs. The lower order batsmen, as usual, did not contribute.
In the second innings, Rishabh Pant scored another century and KL Rahul also scored a century. At one point India's score was 333/5 and it looked like they could give England a big target, but they lost their last 5 wickets for just 31 runs and the whole team was all out for 364 runs.
India's fielding was very poor. They dropped about 8 catches in the IND vs ENG 1st Test match, including 6 catches in England's first innings alone. This was their worst fielding performance since 2019. Young cricketer Yashasvi Jaiswal dropped the most catches (4) in this match. Players like Rishabh Pant, Sai Sudarshan and Ravindra Jadeja also made the mistake of dropping catches.
Captain Shubman Gill is under question regarding his captaincy in the first Test. Despite being the captain, players like Pant and KL Rahul were making fielding changes in his place. Gill looked under pressure on the field, especially when the England batsmen were raining runs. Shardul bowled only 6 overs in the first innings, while he was used less in the second innings.
Team India went into this match with 4 specialist bowlers. Kuldeep Yadav's absence was clearly felt in the match. Kuldeep has the ability to spin the ball on any pitch. At the same time, Arshdeep Singh was also not given a chance.
The Indian team had selected Shardul Thakur as the fourth seamer to add depth to the batting in Leeds, but in the first innings, he was handed the ball in the 40th over and he gave runs at an economy of more than 6 in 6 overs. In the second innings, he took two wickets, but he could not do anything special. Along with this, Karun Nair and Sai Sudarshan also flopped.
One of the reasons for the Indian team's defeat is that they relied too much on Jasprit Bumrah. Apart from Bumrah, the other bowlers looked ineffective. He took 5 wickets in the first innings, while he did not get any success in the second innings. Apart from him, no one else could do anything special.
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