India defeated England by an innings and 25 runs in the fourth Test played at Ahmedabad’s Narendra Modi Cricket Stadium. The English batsman looked helpless against Akshar Patel and Ravichandran Ashwin, and the entire team was all out for 135 in the second innings. Akshar and Ashwin took five wickets each. With this win, India won the four-match Test series 3–1 and entered the final of the World Test Championships.
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India were all out for 365 in the first innings and had a strong 160-run lead over England. In the second innings, the England batsmen scattered the cards before Akshar and Ashwin and the entire team was out for 135. On the favorable pitch of Narendra Modi Stadium, Akshar took five wickets for 48 runs in 24 overs and Ashwin took five wickets for 48 runs, while Ashwin took five wickets for 47 runs in 22.5 overs. Ashwin took 30 wickets in the series and scored 180 runs including a century. At the same time, Akshar made his mark in Test series by making his debut in Test cricket.
With the exception of England captain Joe Root (30), no batsman could face the Indian bowlers. Dominic Sibley (3), Jack Crawley (5) and Johnny Bierstowe (0) did not look comfortable and Ben Stokes (0) could not wait for the ball to bounce and was dismissed by playing the wrong sweep shot. The last wicket for England came in the form of Don Lawrence, who was bowled by Ashwin for six off 96 balls.
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Prior to this, Washington Sundar, who had a mature batting performance in the eighth place, missed the first Test century by four runs, but India were bowled out for 365 in the first innings. The 21-year-old K Khabar batsman scored 96 off 74 balls but was left alone on the other end as the last three wickets fell quickly. India lost the last three wickets in five balls. Ben Stokes took four wickets for 89 runs in 27.4 overs.
Like Rishabh Pant, his under-19s, Sundar was a century away, adding 106 for the eighth wicket with Akshar Patel and avoiding England’s plans to prevent India from getting a huge boost. Akshar scored 43 off 97 balls, including Jack Leach’s sixes. Both batsmen kept increasing the run rate by scoring one and two runs instead of making a dangerous shot. They both turned the strike spectacularly and the England bowlers were not pressured. England’s James Anderson took three wickets for 44 runs in 25 overs. After scoring 205 in the first innings, England were all out.
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