by Josh Tongue’s first ball of this fifth test in the Oval drove down the side as far as he hit the border rope for five wides. A moment later he sent the ball for five more towards Eden Gardens. It was one of the worst overs that you will probably see in a test game: India hit a lonely single and jumped from 18-1 to 30-1. The tongue was not playable, just not as he could have imagined.
The conditions of the morning seemed like a bowl paradise on an unpredictable green field under heaven, so cloudy that Groundstaff switched on the floodlights before noon. Shubman Gill, the 15th throw of India, in a row, lost in all formats a performance with a probability of 1 to 32,768-and England’s replacement captain Ollie Pope naturally chosen in field.
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But England didn’t fully use it, and the tongue was not the only one with a headstrong radar. Gus Atkinson, Chris Woakes and Jamie Overton delivered all irregular spells and served 15 wides and 30 extras, a spacious piece of India 204-6 in stumps.
Jamie Overton tried to find his step despite favorable conditions (Ben Whitley/Pa) (Pa -wire)
Atkinson was certainly the selection of the bunch and remembered Yashasvi Jaiswal on his pads when Pope broke his own undesirable series of 14 failed DRS attempts and happily how the Wicket celebrated how he was. Atkinson also moved out the sharp run of Captain Gill, who briefly lost his senses for a single that was never there before later pulling an edge of Dhruv Jurel.
Woakes, who had lured Kl Rahul to chop his own stumps, ended with a disaster and fell across the border to save a four and injure himself. He called in pain before he was treated by doctors and helped the field, his arm in the kind of provisional loop, which tends to indicate a contaminated shoulder.
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Without a specialist Spin Bowler, England’s remaining three sailor is faced with a strong workload to complete this test. The bigger picture for Woakes is that his hopes of making the Ashes squad this winter are doubts. At the age of 36, there may not be many opportunities for one of the most reliable actors in England in the past ten years and more.
Chris Woakes clings to his shoulder after falling in the outer field (Getty Images)
But nobody has encapsulated the scooter day in England more than the tongue. His catastrophic overview was a hard clock when his planted foot slipped over the fold, where a bunch of sawdust did not offer any additional handle. He let the ball swing, but that was not a good thing, because as soon as he decided on his rogue railway, he never reverse the cheated Wicketkeeper Jamie Smith.
But gradually the tongue was established, and a change in the ends by Pope turned out to be wise. He found a dangerous length that flirted with the tip of the off-stump, and his pace rose at over 90 km / h. His unpleasant technology with a bowling arm that is pretended beyond the vertical chin, sent the ball down in devilish angles, which soon brought rewards.
Josh Tongue, as referee Ahsan Raza, see another broad (Getty Images)
The two gates of the tongue were almost carbon copies of each other and spoiled the ball towards the left Sai Sudharsan and Ravindra Jadeja out of the Wicket before pulling it from the outside edge in Smiths. All the more Bamboozling when Jadejas Wicket started at the end of one over wilder, more expensive wide.
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Perhaps this was the most difficult part of the Indian day: not only the enemy blow conditions, but also the fact that they had no idea what came to them at a certain point in time. At least when it faces Jimmy Anderson or Stuart Broad, there is a rhythm, a setup, an action that you used to build with in-vibrations, Plot Twist, The Out-Swinger. Here there was little of this consistency, instead a flood of balls that were too long, too long, too long, too wide, a shame and suddenly too good to get ready.
Rain disturbed the game on the first day of the fifth test in the Oval (AFP/Getty)
India’s resistance came from the unlikely source of Karun Nair, which was brought back to the side to improve the Wimper in a further non -convincing line -up of tourists in this series, in which two spinners are on a pitch of a sailor. Nair bury himself, calibrated his line of sight in the dark and began to assert himself. Shortly before stumps, he brought a confident 50.
And so a day felt that England should have been something like a score. England has six gates, but it cost it 200 runs and the shoulder of a bowl. The next time you start on the first day of a test game, England will go out in Perth in November. Since Jofra Archer was rested here and Mark Wood was still injured, this was an opportunity that the support of the support made her place for trips to Australia, but maybe Atkinson could say that he had strengthened his case.
England celebrates after Josh Tongue, the second left, Ravindra Jadeja (Getty Images)
Strangely enough, the Tongue managed to transform one of the worst morning of his career into a success story. He took two scalp with identical Jaffas and tore it with the type of speed, height and angle that would be useful in an Australian summer. About 70 meters behind the leaked impact men and Stuart Broad nodded his consent in the comment box. To the Wicket to the left -handed? England used to have someone who was very good at it.
