India defeated England by 9 wickets

India won 1st test match against England by 9 wickets. Today England started their inning from 340 runs for 5 wickets. Captain Alastair Cook who played superbly on 4th day could not do much today and finished his inning on 176 runs.

Matt Priort who also played a brilliant inning yesterday lost his wicket after adding few runs in his yesterday score and got out at 91 runs. Indian bowler did not take much time to bind English inning and whole English team got all out at 406 runs in 154.3 overs.

England set target of 77 runs for India to win. India chased this easy goal after losing one wicket of Sehwag (25 runs) and won the match by 9 wicket. Sehwag tried to send the ball forcefully over the boundary line but unfortunately caught by Kevin Petersen at boundary line. He took a difficult catch.  

In Indian victory there was team work but there was especial contribution of Sehwag (117 runs & 25runs), Cheteshwar Pujara (206 run not out & 41 runs not out), Pragyn Ohja (9 wickets), Ashwin (4 wickets), Umesh Yadav (4 wickets)and Zaheer Khan (2 wickets).

From England side Captain Alastair Cook (41 runs & 176 runs) and Matt Priort (48 runs & 91 runs) played a key role in batting in both innings. If these two batsman had not played well, England would have faced a very humiliating defeat.

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