ENG vs IND: Looking Back At India's Test Wins In England

India's victory at The Oval on Monday was only their ninth Test win in England. This is also only the second occasion in their cricketing history that India have won two Test matches in a series i

2007

Second Test at Trent Bridge: The first and the third Test matches at Lord's and The Oval were drawn. It was the second Test that India won by seven wickets which helped them win the series. Left-arm pace bowler Zaheer Khan ran through the England batting, picking nine wickets (4/59 and 5/75). As England batsmen looked to make a match of it in the second innings after conceding a 283-run lead, Zaheer dismissed five of England's top six batsmen with brilliant swing bowling. Zaheer's spell restricted England's lead to 72 which India surpassed losing three wickets.

2014

Second Test at Lord's: Pace bowler Ishant Sharma's 7/74 helped India take 1-0 lead in the Test series. The first innings had gone almost on an even keel. But India put up a formidable 342 in the second innings. England folded for 223 in the second innings as they kept hitting Sharma's innocuous short-pitched deliveries to fielders. India won by 95 runs.

2018

Third Test at Trent Bridge: India had lost the first two Tests to be 2-0 down in the series. Virat Kohli scored 200 across two innings (97 and 103) while Hardik Pandya's 5/28 helped India take an important 168-run first innings lead. Set a target of 521, England's innings lasted over 104 overs as Jasprit Bumrah took five wickets for 85 runs to restrict them to 317. India won by 203 runs

2021

Second Test at Lord's: India won the second Test in remarkable fashion. Till the start of the fifth day's play and in fact till the first half hour of the final day, it seemed like England were favourites to win. However, pacers Jasprit Bumrah and Mohammed Shami scripted a turnaround with an amazing unbeaten 89-run partnership for the ninth wicket. England, who had to bat the last two sessions, succumbed under pressure to lose by 151 runs.

Fourth Test at The Oval: Fifty years after their first-ever Test win in England, India got their second win at the venue as they overturned a 99-run deficit to set England a target of 368 in the fourth innings. The host, if they weren't targeting win, needed to bat out 122 overs to draw the Test. Things went fine till lunch for England on the last day but the second session saw them get blown over. India won the match by 157 runs to take 2-1 lead in the series.