Yashasvi Jaiswal, Jasprit Bumrah and Dhruv Jurel starred for the hosts against an England team that lacked consistency
By Gary Naylor for the 99.94 Cricket Blog
Ben Stokes: 199 runs at 20; one wicket at 17; four catchesUncharacteristically, he could not find a way to influence even one match with bat or ball in hand, but it was his captaincy, more than any other factor, that had England trading blows for two Tests and two days in India – and not many teams have done that in recent years. His handling of his young spinners was exemplary (his old spinner not so much) and his roiling imagination in the field stubbornly refused to allow games to drift. Then India’s experience and class began to tell and four collapses in five innings saw an old story play out again. Grade B-
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