Even with rain threatening to foil a full day’s play on the Headingley grounds in Leeds on Tuesday, Ben Stokes and England are anticipated to go full-throttle within the bid to chase down a report complete in opposition to India within the first Check of the Anderson-Tendulkar Trophy.
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Headingley has seen loads of fourth-innings heroics over time, together with Stokes’ particular ton in opposition to Australia within the 2019 Ashes. The venue boasts of the best batting common within the final innings throughout the final decade. It is usually dwelling to a report Day 5 chase by Don Bradman’s ‘Invicibles’ within the 1948 Ashes, when the guests chased down a whopping 404-run goal on day 5 in opposition to England. Curiously, England had recorded their highest-ever chase of their final Check assembly at dwelling in opposition to India, again in 2022 at Edgbaston. Posed with a 378-run goal, England gunned down greater than half the rating in opposition to a Jasprit Bumrah-led India within the early days of ‘Bazball’ below Stokes and coach Brendon McCullum.
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Steered by centuries from Joe Root and Jonny Bairstow, England overhauled the 378-run goal in solely 76.4 overs to supply an emphatic outcome and draw the sequence 2-2 again then. Climate prepared, Stokes and Co. might want to pull off an analogous miracle to stub Shubman Gill’s unit at Headingley this time. Since Australia in that Leeds epic 77 years in the past, no workforce has managed to report 350 runs to win a Check on the ultimate day.
Highest Check scores chased by England
| Crew | Opposition | Win Margin | Goal | Venue | 12 months |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| England | India | 7 wickets | 378 | Birmingham | 2022 |
| England | Australia | 1 wicket | 359 | Headingley, Leeds | 2019 |
| England | Australia | 3 wickets | 332 | Melbourne | 1928 |
| England | Australia | 6 wickets | 315 | Headingley, Leeds | 2001 |
| England | New Zealand | 4 wickets | 305 | Christchurch | 1997 |
Highest Check targets chased in England
- 404 – Australia beat England by seven wickets in 1948 (Leeds)
- 378 -England beat India by seven wickets in 2022 (Birmingham)
- 359 – England beat Australia by one wicket in 2019 (Leeds)
- 342 – West Indies beat England by 9 wickets in 1984 (Lord’s)
- 322 – West Indies beat England by 5 wickets in 2017 (Leeds)