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Cricket | August 06, 2018 11:17 ISTThe England players were enjoying some off-time as the first Test in Edgbaston finished inside four days with the hosts winning it by 31 runs.
The England players were enjoying some off-time as the first Test in Edgbaston finished inside four days with the hosts winning it by 31 runs.
In his column Chappell paid glowing tribute to Indian captain Virat Kohli, comparing his Edgbaston hundred to Stan McCabe's epic double hundred during the 1938 Ashes.
Stokes misses out on the 2nd Test as he faces a court hearing in Bristol after he was involved in a brawl last year, whereas Malan has been dropped after he failed to make an impact in the Birmingham Test.
Kohli scored 149 and 51 in India’s 31-run defeat and has gone up by 31 points, which have helped him to end Steve Smith’s 32-month reign as the top-ranked batsman.
Be it in South Africa earlier this year or this week's Edgbaston Test, Kohli has been, more often than not, found shouldering his team's batting on his own in the past few months.
After picking up four wickets in India's first innings, he struck what turned out to be a crucial 63-run knock on the third day to give England a total to defend.
During the presentation ceremony after the defeat, a dejected Virat Kohli summed up his feelings by calling it a great game of cricket.
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The defiant Indian captain, who saw his batting colleagues perishing one after another, was batting on 43 and giving him company was a disciplined Dinesh Karthik (18) when the stumps were drawn for the day.
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Chasing 194 to win the first Test against England, India were 110 for five at stumps on day three at Edgbaston, Birmingham, on Friday.
Kohli admitted that he would have loved to take even a slender lead over England before his team fell short of matching their score by 13 runs.
Virat Kohli has scored 22 Test hundreds in his illustrious career to date. But the superlative ton he scored on Thursday has to be his greatest Test innings till date.
At stumps, England were 9 for 1 in their second innings with an overall lead of 22 runs.
India captain Virat Kohli running England skipper Joe Root out for 80 just after Tea sparked a collapse as the hosts lost six wickets for 67 runs to end the day on 285-9.
On the opening day of the first Test against England, Mohammed Shami took 2/64 while R Ashwin returned with figures of 4/60 to help India restrict England to 285/9.
Joe Root (80 runs off 156 balls, 9x4s) scored an unbeaten 41st Test half-century, but the English innings completely got derailed after his dismissal.
The two players were initially named in England's 13-man squad for the opening game of the five-match Test series against India at Edgbaston.
It was the eighth time Ashwin had dismissed the left-handed opener in Test cricket - joining Nathan Lyon on the list of spinners dismissing Alastair Cook most times in Test cricket.
England have dominated India since their first Test in June 1932, winning 43 and losing 25 out of a total of 117 Tests.
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