Article by Hiral Vilas
This day will be marked as a historic day in Indian cricket calender and in minds of millions of Indian supporters. Today, Dhoni’s team, Team India has done miracle for India. As India clinched their first victory at the historic Lord’s in last three decades. Today was Ishant ‘s day as his wonderful spell of fast bowling to shattered England with just 95 runs in their kitty and enjoyed a 1-0 lead in the five match series. Ishant Sharma gave his career-best 7 for 74 runs, for a 223 runs in pursuit of a competitive victory target of 319. On fifth day, England started with 173 for four and last six wickets fell for only 50 runs with the final five coming in only 12.2 overs after lunch on an absorbing fifth day’s play. After 28 long years for India to win a Test match at the ‘Home of Cricket’ after ‘Kapil Dev’s team achieved the feat back in June 1986 winning by five wickets.
It is Mahendra Singh Dhoni’s first significant victory as Test captain outside the sub-continent. Previosuly in 2011, India won a Test match outside the South Asian region when they defeated West Indies in a 1-0 series win. The victory was achieved in the 89th over when James Anderson tapped a Ravindra Jadeja delivery towards short cover and set off for non-existent single but Jadeja was alert enough to pick up and break the stumps down with a direct throw triggering off instant celebrations. Joy of Team India was overjoyed and Skipper Dhoni as usual collected a stump as souvenir as the jubilant players hugged each other with the support staff and reserve bench applauding them from the hallowed balcony.
