England<\/a> became the first team to score five individual centuries in a first-class game against themselves — over the course of more than 60,000 matches — and still win.<\/p>\nSet a target of 371, England finished on 373-5 when Jamie Smith ended the match with a six while opener Ben Duckett’s 149 paved the way for a victory that gave the hosts a 1-0 lead in the five-match series.<\/p>\n
Joe Root was not out on 53 at Yorkshire’s home ground.<\/p>\n
India piled on 835 runs at Headingley with Rishabh Pant (134 and 118) becoming the second wicketkeeper to score centuries in both innings of the same Test.<\/p>\n
Only three times in Test history has a team scored more runs in a match and lost. India’s collapses of 7-41 and 6-31 at the end of each innings at Leeds proved costly.<\/p>\n
Brief scores<\/strong><\/p>\nIndia 1st Innings 471 (S Gill 147, R Pant 134, Y Jaiswal 101; B Stokes 4-66, J Tongue 4-86)<\/p>\n
England 1st Innings 465 (O Pope 106, H Brook 99; J Bumrah 5-83, P Krishna 3-128)<\/p>\n
India 2nd Innings 364 (KL Rahul 137, R Pant 118; J Tongue 3-72, B Carse 3-80)<\/p>\n
England 2nd Innings 373-5 (B Duckett 149, Z Crawley 65, J Root 53 no)<\/p>\n
Result: England won by five wickets<\/strong><\/p>\nPlayer-of-the-match: Ben Duckett (ENG)<\/p>\n
Series: England lead five-match series 1-0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
LONDON: England won the first Test in record-breaking fashion at Headingley on Tuesday, defeating India by five wickets. The victory meant England became the first team to score five individual centuries in a first-class game against themselves — over the course of more than 60,000 matches — and still win. Set a target of 371, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":78563,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[507,139],"class_list":["post-78562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-england","tag-india"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78562"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78564,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78562\/revisions\/78564"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}