India vs England 5th Test Day 5 Stats: Records tumble as India thrash England and win series 4-0

Ravindra Jadeja led India to a memorable innings victory on the 5^th day of the 5^th and final Test against the England cricket team earlier today as his best bowling figures of 7-48 proved to be the difference between the two sides. Ishant Sharma, Umesh Yadav, and Amit Mishra chipped in with a wicket each as England were bowled out for 207. It was sweet revenge for the Indian cricket team as they won 4-0 after losing their previous two Test series against England, one of which was at home back in 2012.

As the 5^th day began earlier today, openers Alastair Cook and Keaton Jennings were on top form and put on a hundred-run partnership before Cook was dismissed by Jadeja for the 5^th time this series. It went downhill from there for the visitors as their batsmen were outclassed and had no answer to what was thrown at them by the Indian bowlers. Despite being only 4 wickets down at tea, they crumbled in the final session to give India the victory.

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Karun Nair, who scored a historic triple century yesterday was adjudged man of the match, while captain Virat Kohli was given the man of the series award for scoring 655 runs in the series at an average of 109.16.

England will be travelling home for a Christmas break before they come back to face India for the rest of the series which consists of 3 One Day Internationals and 2 T20 internationals which begin on January 15^th.

Here are some interesting numbers from the final day’s play:

1 – Ravichandran Ashwin is the first Indian to score 300+ runs & take 25+ wickets in a Test series.

1 – This is Ravindra Jadeja’s first 10 wicket haul in Tests.He is also the first player ever to score a fifty, take 10 wickets and hold 4 catches in the same Test.

2 – This is only the 2^nd time India have won a Test series 4-0. The last time was against Australia at home in 2013

2 – This is only the 2^nd time a team has lost consecutive Tests after scoring 400+ in the 1^st innings.

6 – No. of times Ravindra Jadeja dismissed Alastair Cook in Tests.

8 – No. of losses for England this year. The last time they lost 8 in a year was in 1993.

9 – No. of Tests won by India this year, which is the most they have won in a calendar year.

22 – No. of Test losses for Alastair Cook as captain, which is the most by an English captain.

18 – This is the most number of consecutive Tests without defeat for India.

477 – The highest team total in an innings defeat.

1477 – No. of runs scored by Joe Root this year which is the 2^nd best in a calendar year for an England batsman. He fell 4 runs short of Michael Vaughan’s record

2675 – No. of runs scored by Cook in Asia which is the highest in a continent by a visiting player.