Indian batters demonstrated resilience by batting for the entire day. The marathon partnership between Ravindra Jadeja and Washington frustrated the England team as they offered for a draw with 1 hour still left to play. But India rejected it and waited until both the all-rounders complete their hundreds.
100 in Manchester
Three Indian batters scored a hundred for India in the second innings to save the test. Shubman Gill became the first Indian in 25 years to score a hundred at this venue. The last time it happened was in 1990, when Sachin Tendulkar scored his first international hundred at the age of 17.
Ravindra Jadeja and Washington Sundar joined the list later. Indian players to score a test hundred at Old Trafford:
- Abbas Ali Baig ( 1959 )
- Polly Umrigar ( 1959 )
- Sandeep Patil ( 1982 )
- Sachin Tendulkar ( 1990 )
- Shubman Gill ( 2025 )
- Ravindra Jadeja ( 2025 )
- Washington Sundar ( 2025 )
KL Rahul missed the opportunity of fetching his name in this prestiguos list by just 10 runs. He was dismissed for 90 runs in the first session in the last day by Ben Stokes.
Sir Ravindra Jadeja swings the sword
Ravindra Jadeja has been in phenomenal form with the bat in this series. He is yet to be dismissed in the second innings in this series. He became the sixth Indian batter to cross 1000 test runs in England.
Indian batters with the most test runs in England:
- Sachin Tendulkar – 1575
- Rahul Dravid – 1376
- Sunil Gavaskar – 1152
- KL Rahul – 1125
- Virat Kohli – 1096
- Ravindra Jadeja – 1096
- Rishabh Pant – 1035
- Dilip Vengsarkar – 960
Ravindra Jadeja has also taken 34 test wickets in England. Only visiting players have more wickets than him with 1000-plus runs in a country.
- Garry Sobers ( WI ) – 1820 runs and 62 wickets in England
- Wilfred Rhodes ( ENG ) – 1032 runs and 42 wickets in Australia
- Ravindra Jadeja ( IND ) – 1096 runs and 34 wickets in Engand
Manchester curse
12 captains have won the toss and chose to field at Manchester in tests. None of them ended up with a victory. It has been 3 losses and 9 draws. Ben Stokes, as a test captain, has faced only two draws in his career,r and both of them came at Manchester.
Shubman Gill leveling with Sir Don Bradman
Shubman Gill scored his fourth century in this series. He joined the elite list of captains with most centuries in a test series with Don Bradman and Sunil Gavaskar.
Most test centuries in a test series as a captain:
- Don Bradman – 4 vs India ( 1947-48 )
- Sunil Gavaskar – 4 vs West Indies ( 1978-79 )
- Shubman Gill – 4 vs England ( 2025 )
Shubman Gill is the only captain to achieve this feat in an away test series. Gill also joins Bradman with most hundreds by a visiting batter at England. Don smashed four tons in 1930.
Shubman Gill also became the third Indian batter to score 700-plus runs in a test series. Indian batters with most runs in a test series:
- Sunil Gavaskar – 774 vs West Indies ( 1970 )
- Sunil Gavaskar – 732 vs West Indies ( 1978-79 )
- Shubman Gill – 722 vs England ( 2025 )
- Yashasvi Jaiswal – 712 vs England ( 2024 )
Shubman Gill just requires 53 more runs to supress Sunil Gavaskar and climb to the first place in the list of most runs scored by an Indian in a test series.