![2,0,4,4,6,1 Washington Sundar Demolishes Gus Atkinson To Achieve Fifty in 39 balls, Forces Umpires To Exchange Ball [WATCH]](https://cricklive.in/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/washington-sundar-fifty-gus-atkinson-eng-vs-ind-5th-test-oval-scaled.jpeg "2,0,4,4,6,1 Washington Sundar Demolishes Gus Atkinson To Achieve Fifty in 39 balls, Forces Umpires To Exchange Ball [WATCH]")
England concept that they had limited India’s lead beneath 350 and feature a crack on the goal after decreasing them to 357/9, till Washington Sundar determined to modify gears.
The all-rounder used to be batting on 17 off 23 balls when Josh Tongue brushed aside Ravindra Jadeja (53) and Mohammed Siraj for a duck in the similar over.
With simplest closing guy Prasidh Krishna at one finish, Gus Atkinson got here steaming in at Washington who determined to take the aerial direction and despatched the ball deep into the stands at deep sq. leg. He then clobbered Tongue for 2 extra sixes at the leg-side prior to bringing down the home towards Atkinson.
Washington Sundar destroys Gus Atkinson, takes India’s lead previous 370
Throughout the area of 12 balls, India went from a lead of 334 to 356. Ollie Pope, England stand-in skipper, stored a standard limited-over Powerplay box with 3 at the leg-side and two at the off-side as Washington picked the straights and introduced Atkinson for a pair at long-off.
He then slashed Atkinson’s wayward supply all the way down to the 3rd guy prior to dissecting the sphere at the leg-side for every other boundary.
From 17 off 23 balls, the Tamil Nadu all-rounder raced away to 47 off 38 balls prior to getting one within the slot from a annoyed Atkinson.
Washington gave it the brutal remedy and struck lengthy into the gang at long-on to achieve his 2d fifty-plus rating of the sequence.
Within the procedure, Washington additionally broken the ball which hit the steel close to the commercial display within the stands forcing the umpires to get a brand new one in an instant.
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