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Moeen Ali’s a male for England
- Updated: December 17, 2016
England array 4 batsman Moeen Ali celebrates his hundred on Day One of a fifth Test opposite India in Chennai yesterday. Pic/AFP
Chennai: Moeen Ali took centre theatre with an dominant hundred as England overcame their gummy start to a fifth Test opposite India.
Joe Root (88) and Jonny Bairstow fell 10 and 12 runs brief respectively of their associate Yorkshire batsman Michael Vaughan’s 2002 all-time English record of 1,481 runs in a calendar year.
It therefore fell to Moeen (120no) to finish what he started with a 203-ball century, his fifth in Tests and initial during a array 4 position he has hereditary on this tough tour, out of a stumps sum of 284 for 4 during a MA Chidambaram Stadium yesterday.
For good measure, when he changed to 108, a all-rounder became a fourth England batsman this year to pass 1,000 Test runs — a attainment achieved only once formerly by any group from this country, a decade ago.
England’s prosperity, after Alastair Cook won his fourth toss out of five, was a universe divided from a troubles of 21 for dual — not to discuss a struggle that has raid them for many of a array mislaid in Mumbai final week, when they went 3-0 down with only this final compare to play.
Root oversaw a initial stages of recovery, after openers Cook and Keaton Jennings both went in a initial hour. He will roughly positively have one some-more innings here to pass Vaughan’s record — though has already taken his supernatural method of during slightest a half-century in any Test he has played opposite India to 11 given he done 73 on entrance in Nagpur in 2012. Root and Moeen’s third-wicket partnership of 146 was a slow-burner, in gloomy conditions, though a changed and increasingly active one.
India and England players observe a minute’s overpower before start of play in Chennai yesterday. Pic/PTI
Moeen — forsaken on nought when he flicked his initial runs by a outstretched hands and over a conduct of KL Rahul during midwicket, off Ravindra Jadeja (three for 73) — was afterwards wary on a approach to only 7 from 44 balls during lunch.
But in early afternoon, he brought adult a half-century mount with a swept 4 off Ravi Ashwin — a shot Root would repeat within a hour to take their fondness into 3 figures.
Moeen too had another escape, on 83, when umpire’s call came to his assist after Amit Mishra went to DRS for lbw with a leg-break that struck a left-hander in line though was not utterly going on to strike adequate of leg-stump.
Cook, who will be 32 on Christmas Day, was obliged for a day’s initial important statistic when he became a youngest male to strech 11,000 runs with a pull off Umesh Yadav to cover — where a misfield brought him dual to start a Test.
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No. of England batsmen to get dual or some-more 100s in a Test array in India before Moeen Ali — Alastair Cook, Ken Barrington, Colin Cowdrey, Mike Gatting and Andrew Strauss
A minute’s overpower for victims Jaya
A minute’s overpower was celebrated before play and both teams wore black armbands in memory of a victims of Cyclone Vardah that strike Chennai recently and Tamil Nadu arch apportion Jayalalithaa, who upheld divided in Chennai final week.
Stats corner
- Virat Kohli became a 13th Indian fielder to finish 50 catches or some-more in Tests
- Alastair Cook is a tenth batsman to finish 11,000 runs in Tests
- Joe Root has got a 50-plus measure in 11 uninterrupted Tests opposite India, a many by anyone opposite a team