England v India, Ahmedabad

England 205/10 & 135/10

India 365/10

India won by 25 runs

England v India 2021 · 4th Test Narendra Modi Stadium, Ahmedabad 4–6 Mar 2021

How hard each side found the batting

Uneven — England had it far tougher than India.

England

0.77× -23%

India

1.05× +5%

harder to scoretypicaleasier

The lead

On equal conditions, India led by more than the scoreboard showed.

Who won it · by value

Runs, and what they were worth in these conditions

DW Lawrence England

96 +198

Washington Sundar India

96 +188

RR Pant India

101 +179

Ben Stokes England

57 +96

AR Patel India

43 +56

Best bowling

Top match figures

R Ashwin5/47

AR Patel5/48

AR Patel4/68

Ben Stokes4/89

Top score

101

RR Pant · India

Biggest stand

113

7th wkt · India

Worst collapse

3–20

3 wkts for 20 · England

Match facts

TossEngland, bat

ResultIndia won by 25 runs

Length3 days

England

205 /10 (75.5 ov)

Batter		R	B	4s	6s	SR
Z Crawley	c Mohammed Siraj b AR Patel	9	30	1	0	30.00
DP Sibley	b AR Patel	2	8	0	0	25.00
JM Bairstow	lbw b Mohammed Siraj	28	67	6	0	41.79
Joe Root	lbw b Mohammed Siraj	5	9	1	0	55.56
Ben Stokes	lbw b Washington Sundar	55	121	6	2	45.45
OJ Pope	c Shubman Gill b R Ashwin	29	87	2	0	33.33
DW Lawrence	st RR Pant b AR Patel	46	74	8	0	62.16
BT Foakes	c AM Rahane b R Ashwin	1	12	0	0	8.33
DM Bess	lbw b AR Patel	3	16	0	0	18.75
MJ Leach	lbw b R Ashwin	7	17	1	0	41.18
JM Anderson*	not out	10	15	1	0	66.67

Extras 10 (b 3, lb 5, w 1, nb 1)

Total 205/10 (75.5 ov)

Bowler	O	M	R	W	Econ
I Sharma	9.0	2	23	0	2.56
Mohammed Siraj	14.0	2	45	2	3.21
AR Patel	26.0	7	68	4	2.62
R Ashwin	19.5	5	47	3	2.37
Washington Sundar	7.0	1	14	1	2.00

Fall of wickets

1-10 (DP Sibley, 5.2)·2-15 (Z Crawley, 7.5)·3-30 (Joe Root, 12.1)·4-78 (JM Bairstow, 28.1)·5-121 (Ben Stokes, 46.4)·6-166 (OJ Pope, 61.3)·7-170 (BT Foakes, 65.4)·8-188 (DW Lawrence, 70.1)·9-189 (DM Bess, 70.4)·10-205 (MJ Leach, 75.5)

India

365 /10 (114.4 ov)

Batter		R	B	4s	6s	SR
Shubman Gill	lbw b JM Anderson	0	3	0	0	0.00
CA Pujara	lbw b MJ Leach	17	66	1	0	25.76
Rohit Sharma	lbw b Ben Stokes	49	144	7	0	34.03
Virat Kohli	c BT Foakes b Ben Stokes	0	8	0	0	0.00
AM Rahane	c Ben Stokes b JM Anderson	27	45	4	0	60.00
RR Pant	c Joe Root b JM Anderson	101	118	13	2	85.59
R Ashwin	c OJ Pope b MJ Leach	13	32	2	0	40.62
Washington Sundar*	not out	96	174	10	1	55.17
AR Patel	run out	43	97	5	1	44.33
I Sharma	lbw b Ben Stokes	0	1	0	0	0.00
Mohammed Siraj	b Ben Stokes	0	3	0	0	0.00

Extras 19 (b 10, lb 6, nb 3)

Total 365/10 (114.4 ov)

Bowler	O	M	R	W	Econ
JM Anderson	25.0	14	44	3	1.76
Ben Stokes	27.4	7	89	4	3.22
MJ Leach	27.0	5	89	2	3.30
DM Bess	17.0	1	71	0	4.18
Joe Root	18.0	1	56	0	3.11

Fall of wickets

1-0 (Shubman Gill, 0.3)·2-40 (CA Pujara, 23.6)·3-41 (Virat Kohli, 26.4)·4-80 (AM Rahane, 37.5)·5-121 (Rohit Sharma, 49.6)·6-146 (R Ashwin, 58.1)·7-259 (RR Pant, 84.1)·8-365 (AR Patel, 113.6)·9-365 (I Sharma, 114.1)·10-365 (Mohammed Siraj, 114.4)

England

135 /10 (54.5 ov)

Batter		R	B	4s	6s	SR
Z Crawley	c AM Rahane b R Ashwin	5	16	0	0	31.25
DP Sibley	c RR Pant b AR Patel	3	21	0	0	14.29
JM Bairstow	c Rohit Sharma b R Ashwin	0	1	0	0	0.00
Joe Root	lbw b R Ashwin	30	72	3	0	41.67
Ben Stokes	c Virat Kohli b AR Patel	2	9	0	0	22.22
OJ Pope	st RR Pant b AR Patel	15	31	0	1	48.39
DW Lawrence	b R Ashwin	50	95	6	0	52.63
BT Foakes	c AM Rahane b AR Patel	13	46	0	0	28.26
DM Bess	c RR Pant b AR Patel	2	6	0	0	33.33
MJ Leach	c AM Rahane b R Ashwin	2	31	0	0	6.45
JM Anderson*	not out	1	1	0	0	100.00

Extras 12 (b 4, lb 8)

Total 135/10 (54.5 ov)

Bowler	O	M	R	W	Econ
Mohammed Siraj	4.0	0	12	0	3.00
AR Patel	24.0	6	48	5	2.00
R Ashwin	22.5	4	47	5	2.06
Washington Sundar	4.0	0	16	0	4.00

Fall of wickets

1-10 (Z Crawley, 4.4)·2-10 (JM Bairstow, 4.5)·3-20 (DP Sibley, 9.6)·4-30 (Ben Stokes, 13.1)·5-65 (OJ Pope, 24.5)·6-65 (Joe Root, 25.1)·7-109 (BT Foakes, 43.1)·8-111 (DM Bess, 45.1)·9-134 (MJ Leach, 54.2)·10-135 (DW Lawrence, 54.5)