England were 3 down overnight and lost their last 7 wickets in 35.2 overs on Day 4.
With this emphatic win, India also moved up to the second spot with 69.7 percentage points in the World Test Championship table, to bolster their chances of making it to the final in June. England, on the other hand, fell to fourth position. New Zealand have already qualified for the Lord s final to be played from June 18.
Ashwin, in front of his home audience, surpassed the likes of Gary Sobers and Jacques Kallis to become the second most successful all-rounder in a Test match, behind Ian Botham, in terms of exemplary performance with both bat and ball in a single Test. Ashwin has now on three occasions scored a ton and taken five wickets in a Test. Botham had done it on five occasions.
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SOUTH African fast bowler Kagiso Rabada rejoices after taking the wicket of Pakistan tailender Hasan Ali during the first Test on Thursday. Tahir Jamal/White Star
AMONGST the cricketing nations, South Africa is uniquely placed. It is not only one of the three founding members of the ICC, like England and Australia, it made headlines across the world when it was expelled from international cricket because of its government policy of racial segregation known as the ‘Apartheid.’
Apartheid is a law which did not allow the ruling Whites to have mixed sports, mixed marriages or even sharing schools with Blacks, Asians or the Cape coloured people.