England completed a sensational victory over India at Edgbaston on Tuesday after completing a record 378 chase in the fifth and final test, with Jonny Bairstow and Joe Root the top performers.
Ben Stokes ’revitalized team was introduced to the history books with a surprising success of seven ports, as the heroes of Bairstow and Root took them to an undefeated position of 269.
Bairstow made 114 not out for his second hundred of the game and his sixth this year, continuing with a purple patch that has redefined his entire career, while Root’s 142 was not a master class that led him to 28 tons of test.
Here, LAWRENCE BOOTH from Sportsmail offers player scores for both countries.
England got an impressive victory over India thanks to the heroism of Joe Root and Jonny Bairstow
England
Alex Lees – 7
He got a steering wheel, his best entry so far for England. He gave Kohli as well as he got, but he has now run out in successive tests.
Zak Crawley – 6
Fans saw the “high ceiling” England continues to talk about when Crawley helped Lees put 107 on the second inning.
Ollie Pope – 2
It continues to blow hot and cold, without the help of a wild impulse at the first entrances. He found himself in the eye of a storm Bumrah in the second.
Ollie Pope continues to blow hot and cold for England after a wild play in the first inning and being caught by Jasprit Bumrah in the second.
Ben Stokes – 8
He impregnated his players with an endless amount of confidence and cast the spell on India’s second inning that kept England on the hunt. He is also determined to lead by example with the bat.
Joe Root – 9.5
Giving up the captaincy was the best thing he ever did. He received a brute from Siraj’s first entry, but was baptized as a deity in the pursuit.
Jonny Bairstow – 10
Two hundred in the test, four in his last five innings. The world is his oyster.
Bairstow was unstoppable with 114 not out while Joe Root baptized as a deity for 142 not out
Sam Billings – 7
It helped Bairstow bring England to a viable total in the early innings and kept them tidy enough.
Matthew Potts – 6
Four large ports, including Kohli, but expensive at the first entrances. Still, it continues to make a good impression.
Jimmy Anderson – 8.5
A phenomenon. Six more ports, including a 32nd test of five for, will be achieved in 2022 at 18 to 22 each. To think that England let him go through the Caribbean.
Jimmy Anderson was a phenomenon in Edgbaston with six more ports to bring his 2022 launch to 18: the perfect answer to being abandoned in the Caribbean.
Stuart Broad – 4
He scored 550 test wickets, but went through 35 in one more after being instructed by Stokes to bounce Bumrah. Its 15 test ports this summer have cost 38 each.
Jack Leach – 5
He was beaten by Pant on the opening day. He quickly pulled it out for the second round, after Stokes had the courage to throw the ball to him.
India
Shubman Gill – 2
Twice he did not overcome Anderson’s initial outburst, though he was not the first to suffer this fate.
Cheteshwar Pujara – 7
He opened both innings of a test for the first time in seven years, and kept the top order together in the second.
Hanuma Vihari – 5
It lasted more than an hour at both entrances, but he couldn’t make his starts worth it.
Rishabh Pants – 9.5
Individual baz-dancer from India. His first day of 146 with 111 balls was a masterpiece in the counterattack, and he backed it up with a 50 second inning.
Rishabh Pant offered a counterattack master class with 146 of 111 balls for India
Virat Kohli – 5
Unfortunate against Potts in the first inning, he could do nothing against a Stokes blower in the second. His sleigh brought Bairstow up.
Shreyas Iyer – 5.5
He briefly looked at the part twice, but was strangled and then bounced.
Ravindra Jadeja – 7.5
He baptized excellently on the first day in collaboration with Pant, but did not take any port with his left arm twist.
Jasprit Bumrah – 8
Magnificent with the new ball at both innings in his first Test as captain, and helped pull 35 out of a Broad over.
Bumrah (center) was excellent with the new ball in both innings during his first test as captain
Shardul Thakur – 3
One of the heroes of India’s robbery at The Oval last summer never came into play, despite eliminating Stokes.
Mohammed Shami – 5
He was mad at his usual lack of luck, but could do nothing in the face of England’s late attack.
Mohammed Siraj – 6
Burning in the first inning, when he pulled out the root and tail, but looked like a lamb in the slaughter in the second.