{"id":45795,"date":"2025-08-05T15:12:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T15:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/45795\/"},"modified":"2025-08-05T15:12:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T15:12:11","slug":"tendulkar-leads-praise-for-india-after-test-fightback-in-england-cricket-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/45795\/","title":{"rendered":"Tendulkar leads praise for India after Test fightback in England | Cricket News"},"content":{"rendered":"

India cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar is amongst those to heap praise on the current team after Test series in England.<\/p>\n

A euphoric India heaped praises on Shubman Gill and his men after they pulled off an edge-of-the-seat thriller at the Oval on Monday to split an all-time classic Test series with England.<\/p>\n

Odds were stacked against India in their first Test series under Gill, who inherited a team depleted by the retirement of batting stalwarts Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli \u2013 two men who preceded him in that role.<\/p>\n

As if the gaping holes in their batting order were not bad enough, veteran seamer Mohammed Shami was deemed unfit for the tour, while pace spearhead Jasprit Bumrah was available only for three of the five Tests as part of his workload management.<\/p>\n

Gill and his men went on to record memorable victories at Edgbaston and the Oval to secure a 2-2 series draw<\/a> and assure their legions of fans that the future of Indian cricket was in safe hands.<\/p>\n

The indefatigable Mohammed Siraj led their lion-hearted bowling effort in the series finale to script a six-run victory amid high drama.<\/p>\n

Batting great Sachin Tendulkar led tributes to the team and said the quality of cricket on offer was \u201cabsolute goosebumps\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cSeries 2\u20132, Performance 10\/10! SUPERMEN from INDIA! What a win,\u201d the former India captain wrote on X.<\/p>\n

\"India'sIndia\u2019s Mohammed Siraj celebrates with teammates after taking the wicket of England\u2019s Jamie Overton during the fifth Test [Paul Childs\/Reuters]<\/p>\n

England needed 35 runs on Monday to secure a 3-1 series win with four wickets in hand, but Siraj struck three times to secure a famous victory for his team.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn a nail-biting, riveting hour of cricket at England\u2019s oldest test match ground, in characteristically cloudy Olde Blighty weather, India pulled off a historic heist,\u201d the Hindustan Times newspaper wrote.<\/p>\n

An Indian Express headline read \u201cMiracles Do Happen\u201d and the newspaper explained how Gill had stepped up as captain of a \u201cgun team\u201d.<\/p>\n

The Hindu waxed eloquent on the \u201cMission accomplished\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter 25 days of riveting action, the best was saved for the last as Shubman Gil\u2019s men rode Mohammed Siraj\u2019s sensational spell to pull off a remarkable victory,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a litmus test for an Indian team in transition but the young side showed heart and character as it fought back from tough situations to share the honours.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"India'sIndia\u2019s Mohammed Siraj poses after winning the player of the match award after India won the match to draw the Test series [Paul Childs\/Reuters]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"India cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar is amongst those to heap praise on the current team after Test series…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":45796,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1487,1721,591,308,50,217,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-45795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-asia","tag-cricket","tag-europe","tag-india","tag-news","tag-sport","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45795\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}