Soon after India won their first Test at The Oval in 50 years on Monday, former Australian cricketer Shane Warne took to Twitter to praise Virat Kohli and company.
Going to the extent of calling India the "best team in the world", the Aussie great said, "What you guys have all achieved together over the last 12 months is absolutely magnificent ! Clearly the best test team in the world & that title is thoroughly deserved too ! Long live test cricket."
On Monday, the Indian bowling battery was without two of its senior pacers Ishant Sharma and Mohammed Shami but was still potent enough to bowl out England for 210 in 92.2 overs. The hosts were chasing a tough target of 368.
Bumrah (22-9-27-2) and Jadeja (30-11-50-2) hit England with such ferocity that a batsman of Joe Root's (36 off 78 balls) stature looked dumbfounded at the other end with the kind of distress that his fellow batters were in.
Perhaps that was the reason that India's man-of-the-moment Shardul Thakur's (8-1-22-2) off-cutter was dragged back onto the stumps by Root, signalling the end of English resistance.
Umesh Yadav (18.2-2-60-3) then completed the formalities with the second new ball as India won two Test matches in a single series in England after a gap of 35 years.
Virat Kohli had said after the third Test that a win at Lord's didn't guarantee a win at Leeds and a humbling defeat at Leeds didn't mean that tables could not be turned at the Oval.
(With PTI inputs)
