Under the captaincy of Virat Kohli, while India have bowled and faced pace competently, they have not fared very well against finger spin and have collapsed to that style of bowling regularly. Nathan Lyon at Adelaide in 2014. Rangana Herath at Galle in 2015. Moeen Ali in 2014 and 2018 in England. Steve O’Keefe in 2017 in Pune. Keshav Maharaj at Centurion in 2018.
On Day Four at Lord’s, as India, already trailing by 27, scrapped every inch to restore parity from 55 for 3 to be 155 for 3 through a sterling century partnership from Ajinkya Rahane and Cheteshwar Pujara, they must have thought they had done enough to at least raise hopes of a draw.
But, their Achilles heel, finger spin, once again returned to haunt them. After the pacy Mark Wood produced a brute of a delivery that reared up from the good length spot to dismiss a stoic Pujara, who batted for four hours and forty minutes for his 45 (206b, 4x4) making him glove it to Joe Root at slip, Moeen produced two great deliveries to twist the dagger firmly in India’s hearts.
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