Left arm in a sling, face riven with agony, Chris Woakes could only look on helplessly from the far end. Mohammed Siraj detonated Gus Atkinson’s off-stump at 11.56am on Monday to seal a six-run triumph for India and end one of the most intense hours of Test cricket ever witnessed.
A series that seemed to have it all saved its best for last, a mini-session of unrivalled gut-twisting, tortuous drama that instantly made this fifth Test an all-time classic. Needing 35 runs to chase down 374, four wickets in hand, England collapsed in a wall of Indian noise inside a packed Oval and the first Anderson-Tendulkar Trophy was shared with a 2-2 scoreline.
