Skipper Ben Stokes won the toss and invited India to bat first sensing the overcast conditions. The likes of James Anderson, Matthew Potts, and Stuart Broad gained the huge benefit of the environment and they delivered as expected.
Pant scored a blistering 146 off 111 deliveries and raced ahead of MS Dhoni's record of scoring 100 off 93 deliveries outside India. In his blistering innings, Pant hit 20 fours and 4 sixes and scored at a strike rate of 131.53.
With overcast conditions and the Duke's ball darting around, Shreyas Iyer look clueless against Jimmy Anderson and gloved one over the leg stump. Billings sensed the opportunity, made no mistake, and stuck to the chance.
The former Indian captain had an extremely dismal series in 2014 and was dismissed by Anderson 4 times in 5 Test matches. This is the tour that has transformed Kohli's career and he has accepted it time and again.
Gill, who first burst on the international stage with his exploits in the ICC U-19 World Cup, came with great promise but at the time it seems like he is struggling on the international stage.
The visitors are leading the five-match series 2-1 but will face a revitalised England, which comprises only four members -- Ollie Pope, Joe Root, Bairstow and James Anderson -- from last year's fourth Test against the Indians.
The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) announced that the game has been moved to Edgbaston from Manchester and will be a part of India's white-ball tour.
The fifth Test in Manchester was abandoned after Team India's junior physio Yogesh Parmar tested positive for COVID-19 and was found to be in direct contact with players.
Jarvis, wearing an India Test jersey, invaded the pitch thrice in three different venues during the Test series between England and India.
The pacer said that he noticed the frustration of former England skipper Michael Vaughan on the cancellation of the fifth Test but he could understand the Indian cricketers' anxiety "so close to the flights out."
Oval Test hero Shardul Thakur revealed his conversation with Sam Curran ahead of the final day of the Oval Test, where India defeated England by 157 runs.
Malan, who made a Test comeback in the series after three years, said the likes of Bumrah, Shami and Siraj are different from each other and batsmen struggle to cope when they bowl in tandem.
The former England cricketer feels India did not respect this series and they did not respect Test cricket either in flouting Covid guidelines ahead of the fourth Test.
The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) has written to the ICC seeking a Dispute Resolution Committee (DRC) verdict on the fate of the cancelled match that was to be played at Old Trafford
It may depend on whether the various broadcasters, who paid 25 million pounds for the rights to the Old Trafford Test, would be willing to settle for two evenings' cricket rather than five full days.
Shastri has been in quarantine since September 4 and is expected to complete his 10-day isolation period along with Arun and Sridhar on Monday.
The final match of the series was cancelled when a physio in the Indian camp tested positive ahead of the game, making the visiting players apprehensive, though all of them tested negative.
Shastri himself was the first to test positive for the virus, followed by bowling coach Bharat Arun and fielding coach R Sridhar too testing positive.
ECB is going to lose 40 million pound if the match is declared abandoned due to COVID-19.
After a COVID-19 outbreak in the Indian camp, senior players expressed their apprehensions to both BCCI and ECB on playing and the Test was called off with India leading 2-1 after four Tests.
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