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Bumrah, Ashwin overcome Bazball to help India level series 1-1

The loss was only England’s third in 11 fourth-innings chases since the start of the Bazball era, and even if the target was a monumental one, their second innings score of 292 all out was still higher than the previous successful chase by a visiting team in India - West Indies’ 276 for 5 in Delhi in 1987-88.

Leading role

If Ashwin has been able, despite being thus unofficially classified as someone who must make his own way, to roll on for so long with distinction, that is proof enough he is useful to the team. They'd dropped him rather bullheadedly on the England tour ~ the cornerstone of Kohli's selection policy having been to snub Ashwin ~ and that left you trying to guess how much the Tamil Nadu man had missed in terms of his haul of wickets.