Lalith Kalidas

Ashwin points out the drastic drop in Anshul Kamboj's speeds. Anybody who's followed him since Ranji will be surprised by the pace dip in Manchester. Perhaps was still recovering from the shin injury on the A tour. Hoping he gets actual India-ready pretty soon. #INDvENG

India trailed by more than 300 at Old Trafford but India batted brilliantly in the second innings. As one of the Indians approached his maiden hundred – a magnificent one – an English legend calmed him down, helped him get to his hundred. Mushtaq Ali, 1936.

#INDvsENG #ENGvsIND England vs India: Shubman Gill, KL Rahul, Washington Sundar vs Ben Stokes & Co – the story of a riveting first session on Day 5 By Sandeep Dwivedi indianexpress.com/article/sports…

127 times in Test history teams batting 2nd have secured a 300+ innings lead 13 of these 127 matches ended in a draw 6 of those 13* - India have forced a draw after conceding 300+ lead. 3 of the 6, against England. #INDvsENG

1*/40: Bazball's first proper DRAW. #INDvENG

India have now batted the most balls in a match in the World Test Championship, surpassing West Indies' 1517 against England in 2022. England are the only team to bowl at least 1500 balls (thrice) in WTC history. #INDvENG

England have gained a 300+ innings lead batting second 27 times in Tests, incl. this match. Only 3 matches have previously been flipped around by the opposition for a draw - twice by India (Manchester '36 and Lord's '79). Halfway through pulling off a 3rd after 46 years. #INDvENG

Shubman Gill becomes only the THIRD captain in history after Don Bradman and Sunil Gavaskar to record FOUR centuries in a Test series. Jacques Kallis, Virat Kohli, Steve Smith, Joe Root and Mohammed Yousuf the only other batters to record the feat in the 21st century. #INDvENG

The KL Rahul-Shubman Gill stand was the longest partnership (417 balls) by an Indian pair for any wicket in a Test in England. #INDvENG

Would love to see the list of floating combinations the head coach makes before each series across formats. Seems to be a key part of his preps. #INDvENG

Tilak Varma named South Zone captain for Duleep Trophy 2025-26 season | By @lal__kal #CricketTwitter indianexpress.com/article/sports…

The ones who should be in the squad are in reserves.

Interesting choice of stand-bys: Mohit Redkar, R Smaran, Ankit Sharma, Edhen Apple Tom, Andre Siddarth, Shaikh Rasheed. L Balaji named as the head coach for South Zone.

Tilak Varma to lead South Zone in #DuleepTrophy SZ squad: Tilak (c), Md. Azharuddeen (vc), T Agarwal, Devdutt Padikkal, Mohit Kale, Salman Nizar, N Jagadeesan, T Vijay, Sai Kishore, T Thyagarajan, V Vyshak, Nidheesh MD, Ricky Bhui, Basil NP, Gurjapneet Singh, Snehal Kauthankar

For the first time since 1983, India have lost two wickets for no score (0/2) in a Test innings. Their 11th instance overall. Shambles. #INDvENG

Ben Stokes becomes only the 5th man in history to record a century and a 5-for in a Test match as captain. He follows Imran Khan (1983), Mushtaq Mohammed (1977), Garry Sobers (1966) and Denis Atkinson (1955). #INDvENG

Jasprit Bumrah concedes 100 runs in an innings for the first time in his Test career (91* innings). It is only the 6th such instance across his entire First-Class career (137 innings) and a first since the Gujarat-Jharkhand Ranji Trophy semifinal in Jan 2017. #INDvENG

Tim David smashes the fastest T20I hundred by an Australia man. Only Suryakumar Yadav has a better T20I strike rate (Full-Member teams) than him for min. 1000 runs. Only Andre Russell has a better T20 SR than David (min. 5000 runs). #WIvAUS

🚨 BREAKING🚨 N Jagadeesan called up to the Indian Test team after Rishabh Pant's injury at Old Trafford @venkatatweets ✍️ #INDvsENG indianexpress.com/article/sports…