Jacob Bethel received Player of the Match awardImage Credit source: Getty Images
Team India’s tour of England ended and it also ended with disappointment. After losing the T20 series, the Indian team also failed to win the ODI series. Team India had to face defeat in the last match of the series played at Lord’s. In this match, a lot of runs were scored by both the teams and 2 centuries were also scored. Ben Duckett scored centuries for England and Rohit Sharma scored centuries for Team India. But when it came to the Player of the Match award, England’s Jacob Batchelor was selected instead of these two.
In this match played on Sunday 19th July, England scored 387 runs. In response, the Indian team could reach only 360 runs. In this way, host England won by 27 runs and won the series 2-1. But the award for this victory was not given to Ben Duckett, who played the biggest innings at Lord’s and scored 141 runs. The Indian opener Rohit Sharma Was also not selected for this, who scored 138 runs and became the first Indian batsman to score a century here.
Bethel played a strong innings
When it came to player of the match, Jacob Bethel was selected for it. Now the question is why did this happen? Actually, Bethel played an excellent innings with the bat and laid the foundation for the team to reach a big score. This young left-handed batsman, who was opening for the team in this series, made a record partnership of 192 runs with Duckett. He could not score a century and was out on 91 runs.
Why did Bethel get the award?
Now this score was less than the innings of Duckett and Rohit. But Bethel did not get this award just for scoring 91 runs. Actually, this innings of Bethel had a big role but apart from this, the work he did in bowling also played a big role. It was Baithel who did not give the Indian team a chance to score runs quickly in the middle overs and during this he took the biggest wicket and dismissed Rohit Sharma. In his 7 overs, Bethel gave 49 runs and took 1 wicket. This was the reason why he was chosen the best player of the match instead of the two batsmen who scored centuries.
