The off-spinner took six wickets as India bowled out England for 178 before the visitors knocked out India for just 337 in theri first innings
The experienced Indian off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin has taken his 28th five-wicket haul in Test matches as India bowled out England for 178 runs in the second innings. Ashwin finished with figures of 6/61 as none of the English batsmen could stay for long on the fourth day of the Chennai Test.
Ashwin started the bowling innings for India on an extraordinary note, as he removed the opening batsman Rory Burns on the first ball of his spell and the England innings. This was just the start India needed as they were bowled out for 337 in their first innings and were trailing by 241 runs.
India needed something special from their five-pronged bowling attack. Ashwin was the man again for Virat Kohli and co. After removing Burns, the pair of Dominic Sibley and Dan Lawrence started rebuilding and were going at a decent pace. However, it was Ashwin again for the hosts to get the breakthrough.
Ashwin got Sibley to make a mistake and Cheteshwar Pujara latched on to the catch to get England two down.
Skipper Joe Root came out all guns blazing, and took on the bowlers from the outset. But it was time for the pace duo of Jasprit Bumrah and Ishant Sharma to get their names on the wicket columns. Ishant got rid of Lawrence first after which Ashwin came back to dismiss all-rounder Ben Stokes.
Jasprit Bumrah then removed the dangerous looking Root to reduce England to 101/5. The England batting line-up couldn't forge much partnerships, which hurt the visitors as the Indian bowlers kept chipping at the wickets.
As the partnership between Ollie Pope and Jos Buttler started looking dangerous, it was turn of the left-arm Shabaaz Nadeem to get into the wickets. Nadeem removed both Pope and Buttler and Ashwin came back to clean up the tail to achieve his 28th five-wicket haul in Test cricket and finish with figures of 6/61 in the innings.
England were bowled out for 178, which meant India have a mountain of 420 runs to climb or to survive in the first Test of the four-match series.
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