ENG vs IND, 5th Test, Day 5: Siraj & Krishna run through England on final day; ATT 2025 drawn 2-2

ENG vs IND 2025, 5th Test, Day 5, Highlights: Siraj & Prasidh share 9 wickets as India level series 2-2 in dramatic finish.

Brief Scores: Ind 247 (Karun Nair 57. Gus Atkinson 5/33) & 396 (Yashasvi Jaiswal 118, Josh Tongue 5/125) beat Eng 247 (Zak Crawley 64, Prasidh Krishna 4/62) & 367 (Harry Brook 111, Joe Root 106, Mohammed Siraj 5/104) by six runs and draw the series by 2-2. 

Player of the Match: Mohammed Siraj- “It feels amazing. We wanted to fight hard from Day 1 and to see this result is great. The plan was to keep it simple and hit one spot. When I woke up today I believed that I could do it. It took a photo from Google and put it as my wallpaper that I could do it.”

Player of the Series: Shubman Gill- “Both the teams played brilliantly throughout the series. Both the teams came up with their A game, happy to get on the right side today. When you have bowlers like Siraj and Prasidh, captaincy seems easy. There were certain things I wanted to work on as a batter and it was a goal to end as the best batter of this series.”

After 24 days of high-intense action over five venues in seven weeks, the five-match Test series between England and India came to an exciting end. The home side needed 35 runs on the fifth and final day with four wickets in hand. It was now or never for the tourists, who had already lost two successive red-ball series before this trip. 

The conditions were cloudy and quite chilly in the morning session. The green colour of the surface from the opening day had converted into brown patches. The home side got the chance to take the heavy roller, which would hold the surface nicely for the first half an hour. The position that the game has stood, those 30 minutes could prove to be enough for the result to come either way. 

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Let’s take a look at how the morning session panned out during Day 5 of the 5th Test of the ENG vs IND 2025 series:

Mohammed Siraj’s 5/104 carries India to six-run victory to draw series by 2-2
The very first ball from Prasidh Krishna was pulled through mid-wicket for a boundary by Jamie Overton. The right-handed batter went for a drive on the second ball and got a lucky inside edge into the rope for the same result. 

Mohammed Siraj got some swing and shape to go past Jamie Smith’s outside edge. After a replica of the same in the second ball, Smith got an outside edge into the hands of the wicket-keeper. India, out of nowhere, got their energies back. 

It could have been another wicket on the very next ball of Gus Atkinson. But the outside edge fell just an inch short of KL Rahul at the slip corridor. Krishna was off the mark as he went for a few short balls. The batters cut those comfortably. 

Then came another moment for the tourists, when Siraj wrapped Overton before the stumps. Kumar Dharmasena took his time before raising his finger. And that proved to be a huge decision as the batter walked back on the umpire’s call. 

After a couple of short balls to set Josh Tongue, Krishna went for a full ball. The batter missed it to see it going under his feet into the stumps as India picked their ninth wicket. Chris Woakes, having dislocated his shoulder, walked out to bat left-handed. 

It was another poor fielding performance from Akash Deep, who fumbled a catch for a six. It was the second instance of this in the Test by him after he kicked a ball to the boundary on the fourth afternoon. 

The series had been around India missing key moments. It was another such example when they failed to keep Woakes off strike. Hard to believe, but it happened twice. But it was Siraj, It had been his world, and we are just living in it. He broke the stumps of Atkinson to gain the victory for India for six runs, with a five-wicket haul. 

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What’s next for India’s Test schedule?
India will have a couple of months’ break before their next red-ball series at home against the West Indies. The opening game of the two-match series will begin on October 02 at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad. The action will then move to the Arun Jaitley Stadium in Delhi from October 10. 

After another break of four weeks, the Blue Brigade will take on South Africa at home. The first of the two-match Test series will start on November 14 at the Eden Gardens in Kolkata. The second game will happen at the Barsapara Cricket Stadium in Guwahati from November 22. 

Next year, India will fly to Sri Lanka for two Tests in June, whose schedule is yet to be announced. 

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Statistical Highlights from ENG vs IND 2025, Oval Test, Day 5

• India’s victory by 6 runs is their narrowest win in terms of runs in Test history.
• This is the sixth drawn series between India and England, and the third drawn series in England between the two countries.
• Siraj (23) now has the joint-most wickets, along with Jasprit Bumrah, for India in a Test series in England.

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