In a final hour packed with tension and emotion, India edged past England by six runs at The Oval, their narrowest Test win by runs. It was a match that see-sawed right until the end, and fittingly, i

Therefore, England refrained from keeping a specialist spinner in their XI. And India were forced to go in without Kuldeep Yadav . Notably, the seamers of both sides were aided by the pitch in the first innings.

Yashasvi Jaiswal’s lucky half-century has overturned India’s first-innings deficit into a 52-run lead against England on day two of the fifth test in London.