The England group confronted a significant setback after key pacer Chris Woakes suffered a nasty shoulder damage and seemed an excessive amount of in ache within the ongoing ENG vs IND fifth Check at The Oval. The incident occurred within the last session of Day 1 as he dived to save lots of a boundary.
Following the dive, Woakes could possibly be seen clutching to his shoulder because the physios attended him. Ultimately, he was pressured off the sector and had to make use of his sweater as a makeshift sling to assist his left hand.
An official replace relating to the true extent of the damage and Woakes’ availability for the rest of match is but to come back from the England board (ECB).
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The absence of Chris Woakes may show expensive for England as they purpose to seal a sequence win, particularly since he has performed all of the 5 matches to this point and has shared an unbelievable workload. Woakes, actually, has bowled essentially the most variety of overs within the sequence throughout each groups, sending down a complete of 181 overs.
Moreover, he’s extraordinarily useful with the bat decrease down the order as nicely, and England will face a blow throughout departments if the 36-year-old can’t proceed additional on this match.
Woakes’s damage is now the most recent addition to England’s damage record which features a grade three muscle tear within the shoulder to skipper Ben Stokes that stored him out of the sequence finale with Ollie Pope taking on the captaincy reins. Beforehand, spinner Shoaib Bashir was dominated out of the sequence after struggling a fracture to his left finger within the third Check at Lord’s.
ENG vs IND fifth Check to this point
Talking concerning the match, India got here into the competition with a transparent objective to win as they at the moment path the five-match sequence 1-2. Nevertheless, the English pacers dominated proceedings with the inexperienced high on supply at The Oval, making inroads at common intervals.
Indian openers Yashasvi Jaiswal and KL Rahul perished cheaply for two and 14 respectively. Shubman Gill and Sai Sudharsan subsequent tried to make some amends and constructing a great partnership however a suicidal runout from the Indian skipper ended the 45-run stand. Whereas Gill departed on 21, Sai adopted him again to the dugout not lengthy after for 38.
It was then Karun Nair, who took on the onus of rebuilding however India stored dropping wickets from different finish. Ravindra Jadeja (9) and Dhruv Jurel (19) additionally spent restricted time on the crease earlier than Washington Sundar walked in. The all-rounder complemented Nair nicely from the opposite finish, who registered a a global fifty after 9 years and helped India end Day 1 at 204/6.
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