India vs England 5th Test began Thursday, July 31 at the Oval in London with India batting first. Cricket is a game with enormous amount of numbers involved. Runs, overs, wickets, fours, sixes, maidens are just some of the most basic numbers. If one wants to expand, the list would just never end. Now in the digital age, it is easy to keep track of all of it but when cricket began, none of the technologies currently in use were there and yet all the basic numbers were recorded. It was done through scoresheets.
Former England cricketer Isa Guha on the opening day of the fifth Test shared a picture of one such scoresheet where the game is being recorded.
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India Vs England, 5th Test Toss Update
India captain Shubman Gill lost his fifth consecutive toss and was told to bat first by England's stand-in skipper Ollie Pope, in the fifth and final Test of the Anderson-Tendulkar Trophy series. India made four changes to their playing XI, bringing in Karun Nair, Prasidh Krishna, Dhruv Jurel and Akash Deep for Jasprit Bumrah, Rishabh Pant, Anshul Kamboj and Shardul Thakur.
India Vs England, 5th Test - Playing XIs
India Playing XI: Yashasvi Jaiswal, KL Rahul, Sai Sudharsan, Shubman Gill(c), Karun Nair, Ravindra Jadeja, Dhruv Jurel(w), Washington Sundar, Akash Deep, Prasidh Krishna, Mohammed Siraj
England Playing XI: Zak Crawley, Ben Duckett, Ollie Pope(c), Joe Root, Harry Brook, Jacob Bethell, Jamie Smith(w), Chris Woakes, Gus Atkinson, Jamie Overton, Josh Tongue
