🏏India tour of England 2025: 5th Test: Eng vs India- Oval, Day 5🏏 - Page 32

Pope is out. Now Root and Brook have to score all the runs, which is impossible!!

Anurag Uniyal: "The thing about all three Indian pacers is they rhythm bowlers, and at the moment all three look in near perfect rhythm."

Siraj to Pope, OUT

nip-backer, keeps low - Pope is kippered! Kumar Dharmasena raises the finger and Pope has that look of dread again. But he eventually reviews. Don't think this is going to go for England's stand-in skipper. Perfect length, jagging to smash the knee roll... and Hawk-Eye has it rattling into middle stump three-quarters of the way up! Siraj can bowl the wobble seam all right, he lands it bang on the money and extracts his price. England three down and sinking

Ollie Pope lbw b Mohammed Siraj 27 (34b 5x4 0x6) SR: 79.41

arpit: "dont understand this strategy of offering easy single to the new batsman, even if its root, you need to keep the oressure on first few deliveries to him" The trade-off is that the batters opening the bat face, which can be dangerous with the ball seaming

Ben Duckett average this series vs right arm seam

Over the wicket: 71.50 (Two dismissals)

Around the wicket: 37.14 (Seven dismissals)

Across his career as opener since 2022, he has averaged around 45 across both angles to right arm seamers.

Siraj to Pope, out Lbw!! Siraj and his nip-backers is such a great love story. This one cut back in like a fast off-break and Pope could no nothing about it. Siraj has this cunning ablility to angle the ball in sharply from a wide angle. So batters often tend to play outside the line and to top this up he bowls wobble seam and finds some sharp seam movement back into the RHBs. This was another such length delivery that Pope played outside the line to. The movement off the pitch made it impossible for him to deal with as he tried to defend. Ball hit the kneeroll in line with middle and off, would have smacked middle and leg says DRS. Pope knew he was out, took a long time to review and eventually takes on with him. Pope lbw b Siraj 27(34) [4s-5]

Siraj to Pope, THATS OUT!! Lbw!!

Originally posted by: Nishnesh

Count down starts

England 83/3 💞 ( 🤣he is out of oval test😂)

7 more to go

6 more to go

Baby face- Baba ji LBW

HIGHEST WICKET BY SIRAJ (5 test)in THE SERIES MORE THAN Tounge (4 test)

Siraj will finish this series as the leading-wicket taker now with 20 wickets so far.

Siraj stats for balls hitting stumps this Test

23 balls

18 runs

Six wickets

Siraj stats for balls hitting stumps this Test

23 balls

18 runs

Six wickets