This Test was the only one in the 4-match series where England batsmen looked comfortable at the crease. On a track that offered negligible assistance to bowlers on the first two days, the visitors notched a mammoth 578, thanks to Joe Root’s double ton. The visitors won the Test by 227 runs to take a surprise lead in the series.
During a media interaction on Friday, Ollie Pope recounted feeling apprehensive about the next three games after the Indian captain’s ’last flat wicket’ of the series warning.
Virat Kohli’s words proved prophetic, as the next two Tests were played on raging rank turners, and English batsmen failed to score even 170 across four innings. The pitch for the final Test didn’t produce a sharp turn, but the English batsmen lost wickets against straight deliveries while playing for turn.
England lost all three Tests to lose the series 1-3.
Even Joe Root and Ben Stokes found the conditions ’toughest’ they have ever faced: Ollie Pope
Ollie Pope, who struggled a lot against the likes of R Ashwin and Axar Patel throughout the tour, said even the team’s senior-most players found the conditions some of the ’toughest’ they have ever faced.
The 23-year-old added that it was actually a ‘compliment’ for his team that the hosts had to change their gameplan for the final three Tests.
Ollie Pope was the third-highest scorer for England in the Test series, scoring 153 runs at an average of just over 19. He is currently plying his trade for Surrey in the 2021 English County Championship.
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