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India need to learn the right lessons from the Lord's Test
Hindustan Times East UP
|July 17, 2025
It will be easy to talk up India's fight but the visitors failed to capitalise on the good positions they found themselves in
It was a close encounter of the Test kind. Drama and pressure were the defining points of a day that few will forget anytime soon. But among those who do want to forget it will be a few India cricketers.
Most metrics at the start of Day 5 of the Lord's Test gave India a better chance of coming out victorious and it was believable because on the usual forms of comparison, Shubman Gill and his team were the better team in the series.
The visitors have had more batters with hundreds than England - 8 to 5 - and more bowlers to claim 5-fers - 4 to 0. The top two leading run scorers are Indian (Shubman Gill, Rishabh Pant). The leading wicket-takers too are Mohammed Siraj and Jasprit Bumrah.
Yet, despite putting themselves in positions to win all three Tests, India trail 1-2 in the series.
The immediate sentiment in the change room after the defeat at Lord's is that of appreciation for the lower order's defiance, but Gautam Gambhir and his backroom staff will have to look beyond that soon.
This story is from the July 17, 2025 edition of Hindustan Times East UP.
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