• India's Rishabh Pant and Virat Kohli celebrate the final wicket of England seamer James Anderson that sealed victory in the second Test at Lord's on Monday, August 16, 2021.
    India's Rishabh Pant and Virat Kohli celebrate the final wicket of England seamer James Anderson that sealed victory in the second Test at Lord's on Monday, August 16, 2021.
  • England's Jos Buttler talks to India's captain Virat Kohli on the fifth and final day of the second Test match at Lord's.
    England's Jos Buttler talks to India's captain Virat Kohli on the fifth and final day of the second Test match at Lord's.
  • Mohammed Siraj was the pick of India's bowlers, snaring four.
    Mohammed Siraj was the pick of India's bowlers, snaring four.
  • Mohammed Siraj celebrates dismissing England batsman Sam Curran.
    Mohammed Siraj celebrates dismissing England batsman Sam Curran.
  • Mohammed Siraj picked up two wickets in one over to seal India's win in the Lord's Test.
    Mohammed Siraj picked up two wickets in one over to seal India's win in the Lord's Test.
  • Moeen Ali is caught by Virat Kohli off the bowling of Mohammed Siraj.
    Moeen Ali is caught by Virat Kohli off the bowling of Mohammed Siraj.
  • India's took a 1-0 lead in the five-match series at Lord's.
    India's took a 1-0 lead in the five-match series at Lord's.
  • India's Virat Kohli catches England's Moeen Ali.
    India's Virat Kohli catches England's Moeen Ali.
  • India's Jasprit Bumrah celebrates dismissing England's captain Joe Root on day five at Lord's.
    India's Jasprit Bumrah celebrates dismissing England's captain Joe Root on day five at Lord's.
  • India celebrate after the successful appeal for the wicket of England's Jonny Bairstow.
    India celebrate after the successful appeal for the wicket of England's Jonny Bairstow.
  • Mohammed Shami and Jasprit Bumrah added crucial runs with the bat to set up victory.
    Mohammed Shami and Jasprit Bumrah added crucial runs with the bat to set up victory.

Mohammed Siraj's late strikes hand India famous win in Lord's Test


Paul Radley
  • English
  • Arabic

Amid the wild-eyed mania with which India welcomed victory over England in the Lord’s Test, it was a surprise Mohammed Siraj had the wherewithal to think.

He has just set the seal on an epic, final-hour win with a perfect delivery that clipped the top of James Anderson’s off stump, to set the party in motion.

As he charged through to celebrate with whoever could grab hold of him first, he remembered to swoop and collect a stump. Savvy move. It will be a souvenir of a triumph for the ages for India.

The bare facts were it gave the tourists a 151-run win and a 1-0 series lead. But it meant so much more than that, given the fire and brimstone of the five days leading up to it.

Siraj took four in the innings, and eight in the match. No place on the honours board, maybe, but that was offset by the fact he was a central figure in one of India’s most famous Test wins.

As was his pace colleague Jasprit Bumrah, who took three wickets as England were bowled out for 120 in just over 51 overs.

It stood to reason that Bumrah would be a central figure on the final day with the ball – but with the bat? Few saw that coming, even if his appearance at the crease was eagerly awaited.

There was a reason for that. Bumrah had invoked the ire of the home players with a series of fierce bouncers to Anderson in a 10-ball over at the end of England’s first innings.

When he got his turn to bat, England were intent on getting in to him. The normally good-natured Mark Wood bounced him first ball, and followed up with an uncharacteristic spray of words.

Shortly after, Michael Gough, the umpire, had to intervene in a heated discussion between Bumrah and Jos Buttler, the England wicketkeeper. Meanwhile Virat Kohli, the India captain, shouted his own thoughts on the situation from the away team balcony.

All of which was the seminal point of the day, the moment when any semblance of a chance to push for victory leached away from England.

It was schoolyard stuff, as they were entirely distracted by the man rather than the match situation.

While they set about trying to scone Bumrah – and they did, twice – the unheralded Indian batting duo set about building a score that would take the game beyond the home team.

In the space of 20 overs, Bumrah and Mohammed Shami put on 89. Each of them posted their best Test score.

For Bumrah, his 34 took his Test career runs tally past his career wickets tally. Shami, for his part, hit his second Test half-century, sending one huge six into the second tier of the grandstand in the process.

To add salt to England’s wounds, captain Kohli let the duo carry on their merry way for two overs after the lunch break, before calling them in and declaring.

It left England a nominal target of 272 in 60 overs to chase. It was the sort of target that would be no sweat in a one-day international, but England opted out of a far more benevolent target in the first Test at Lord’s this summer, against New Zealand.

The idea that they would go for it was fanciful enough. Then factor in the fact they made a start to their chase that was so poor it was record breaking.

Rory Burns and Dom Sibley both made ducks, the first time both England’s openers had done so in the same innings in a home Test in history.

Despite the bleak start, England did hint the could fight it out. But India struck at vital moments. They made the first successful review of the Test match on the final ball before tea, to dismiss Jonny Bairstow.

In the first over after the break, they removed the rock that was Joe Root. Although Buttler dug in, he was unable to stave of the inevitable, as India sealed the win with the overs ticking away.

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Will the pound fall to parity with the dollar?

The idea of pound parity now seems less far-fetched as the risk grows that Britain may split away from the European Union without a deal.

Rupert Harrison, a fund manager at BlackRock, sees the risk of it falling to trade level with the dollar on a no-deal Brexit. The view echoes Morgan Stanley’s recent forecast that the currency can plunge toward $1 (Dh3.67) on such an outcome. That isn’t the majority view yet – a Bloomberg survey this month estimated the pound will slide to $1.10 should the UK exit the bloc without an agreement.

New Prime Minister Boris Johnson has repeatedly said that Britain will leave the EU on the October 31 deadline with or without an agreement, fuelling concern the nation is headed for a disorderly departure and fanning pessimism toward the pound. Sterling has fallen more than 7 per cent in the past three months, the worst performance among major developed-market currencies.

“The pound is at a much lower level now but I still think a no-deal exit would lead to significant volatility and we could be testing parity on a really bad outcome,” said Mr Harrison, who manages more than $10 billion in assets at BlackRock. “We will see this game of chicken continue through August and that’s likely negative for sterling,” he said about the deadlocked Brexit talks.

The pound fell 0.8 per cent to $1.2033 on Friday, its weakest closing level since the 1980s, after a report on the second quarter showed the UK economy shrank for the first time in six years. The data means it is likely the Bank of England will cut interest rates, according to Mizuho Bank.

The BOE said in November that the currency could fall even below $1 in an analysis on possible worst-case Brexit scenarios. Options-based calculations showed around a 6.4 per cent chance of pound-dollar parity in the next one year, markedly higher than 0.2 per cent in early March when prospects of a no-deal outcome were seemingly off the table.

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  3. Subway: Fred DeLuca opened the first Subway restaurant when he was 17. In 1965, Mr DeLuca needed extra money for college, so he decided to open his own business. Peter Buck, a family friend, lent him $1,000 and together, they opened Pete’s Super Submarines. A few years later, the company was rebranded and called Subway. 
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