![]() ![]() Until then, with India’s series victory already assured, Goswami’s send-off had been the story. And with that did end the international summer. ![]() But after the big screen - as reluctantly as a piece of inanimate visual technology can - confirmed her dismissal, the Indian huddle turned to hugs and the England batter strode across the wicket and shook hands. The debate beyond their circle had already begun and will rage for some time, despite the MCC’s move to normalise the dismissal within its laws earlier this year. India’s players immediately convened, and closed ranks, seemingly in discussion. ![]() ![]() She was unbeaten on 47, shepherding the rest of the tail to within 17 runs of an unlikely triumph, when she was run-out backing up at the non-striker’s end by Deepti Sharma. They had been 65-for-seven and in desperate strife when Charlie Dean walked to the crease, but the No9 batted beautifully to drag the home side back into contention. As the curtain fell on the extraordinary international career of Jhulan Goswami, this cannot have been how she envisioned leaving the field for the final time.Ĭarried aloft on the shoulders of her teammates, having played a key part in the victory that secured India a famous 3-0 ODI series win over England, the legendary seamer was offered a standing ovation by various corners of Lord’s, but cannot have heard much of the applause, it being largely drowned out by boos after the most controversial of endings to this series.Ĭhasing a modest 170 after Kate Cross’ fine four-for-26, England, in pursuit of what would have been a consolation victory, looked to have doomed themselves with a top and middle-order collapse. ![]()
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