![The Oval Offers Chris Woakes Status Ovation As He Walks Out To Bat With One Hand In ENG vs IND fifth Check [WATCH]](https://cricklive.in/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/chris-woakes-walks-in-with-one-hand-the-oval-eng-vs-ind-5th-test.jpg "The Oval Offers Chris Woakes Status Ovation As He Walks Out To Bat With One Hand In ENG vs IND fifth Check [WATCH]")
Dramatic finishes to the cricket fits are not anything new. Closing ball finishes, batting collapses, double-century on a unmarried leg and the record is going on. However the Anderson-Tendulkar Trophy as a complete has been an enormous episode of a Spanish cleaning soap opera and the overall Check on the Oval lived as much as it.
England had not up to 60 runs to win and 7 wickets in hand however misplaced 5 of the ones unfold throughout two days. As Prasidh Krishna castled Josh Tongue for the 9th wicket with 16 runs to win, Chris Woakes needed to do the painful and stroll out to center because the closing guy.
Chris Woakes will get status ovation as he walks in to bat one passed
The issue used to be that he had dislocated his shoulder whilst fielding within the first innings and needed to bat with simplest passed with the injured arm tucked within a sling and locked underneath his jumper.
As he walked out for that bold effort to a nail-biting finish to the sequence and the 5th Check, the Oval stood up for the 35-year-old in applause.
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