India crush England at last

After all the excellent work done over the last four days, India only needed to complete the formalities on the final day, but they were made to work hard to polish off the remaining 63 runs. Led by a fiery spell from Chris Tremlett, England fought with plenty of heart, and India needed 21 overs before finally completing a seven-wicket victory, their fifth Test win in England and the first at Trent Bridge, to go 1-0 in the series.



Wasim Jaffer and Dinesh Karthik resumed the Indian innings at 10 without loss, and motored to 47 fairly comfortably. Karthik played a couple of handsome backfoot punches square on the off side, while Jaffer played his trademark effotless flicks. Both batsmen played and missed a few times off Ryan Sidebottom, but a ten-wicket win was on the cards when Tremlett struck - not once, but three times. England's only hope of gaining some brownie points and take a few top-order wickets before The Oval Test, and Tremlett did that. nailing both openers with short balls that bounced more than the batsmen expected - Jaffer top-edged a pull to gully while Karthik nicked a beauty which bounced and seamed away.



Buoyed by those successes, Tremlett and James Anderson let it rip at India's two most experienced batsmen. Both bowlers liberally dished out short-pitched deliveries at the batsmen, and then mixed it with pitched-up, awayswingers. Both Tendulkar and Dravid played and missed a few times, before Tendulkar pushed at a short one off his hips straight to Alastair Cook at leg gully, who had been cleverly stationed for that stroke.



Dravid, though, patiently swayed out of the way of every short ball that came his way, and a target of 73 meant victory was only a matter of time. The winning runs came when Anderson bowled an inswinger which beat Sourav Ganguly and Matt Prior, and raced down for four byes.
The victory means India have now won at least one Test in ten of their last 12 tours, but have only won one of those series against a team other than Bangladesh or Zimbabwe. With the last Test at The Oval - a venue which has traditionally produced belters - India have an excellent opportunity to go on and get that rare overseas series win. England, on the other hand, haven't lost a series at home since the 2001 Ashes, which sets up the last game of this series quite splendidly.

India won due to Zaheer Khan's efforts of 9 wickets.

Congrats India





well done