HIGHLIGHTS

• India (364 & 298/8d) beat England (391 & 120) by 151 runs at Lord’s to take 1-0 series lead
• The 151-run win at Lord’s was India’s third in Test history at the Home of Cricket
• Wasim Jaffer took to Twitter to give a hilarious reference to August 15 after India’s triumph

Former India opener Wasim Jaffer was at his hilarious best on social media after Virat Kohli’s team registered a historic win against England in the second Test at Lord’s on Monday night

Jaffer is very active on Twitter and reacts mostly with hilarious memes and did the same after India crushed England by 151 runs at the Home of Cricket to take a 1-0 lead in the 5-match series.

India fought back with everything they had on the final day and produced one of the most all-round performances in Test history to stun the hosts and register only their third win in the longest format at the Lord’s Cricket Ground.

The victory came a day after India celebrated its 75th Independence Day on August 15. Jaffer took to Twitter to give a hilarious reference to August 15.

“If 15th August has taught anything to the British, it is to never mess with Indians after 15th August,” Jaffer tweeted.

“KL Rahul: ‘If you go after one of our guys all eleven will come right back!’ The wolf is the strength of the pack. The pack is the strength of the wolf. And this pack of wolves did some glorious hunting today,” Jaffer wrote in another tweet.

India declared their second innings on 298-8 after an unbroken 9th-wicket stand of 89 between tailenders Mohammed Shami and Jasprit Bumrah left the visitors in command, before England capitulated for 120 in the final innings after some hostile bowling by India’s pace unit.

Jasprit Bumrah (3-33) got India off to the perfect start by removing Rory Burns for a duck in the first over before Mohammed Shami (1-13) produced an unplayable out-swinger to get the better of fellow opener Dom Sibley, also for naught.
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Bumrah got the big wicket of the in-form Joe Root (33) soon after tea, the England skipper edging to opposite number Virat Kohli at first slip.

Jos Buttler, who was dropped on two by Kohli, briefly threatened to salvage a draw for the hosts but all hopes of such a result were extinguished by Mohammed Siraj (4-32), who accounted for both Buttler and James Anderson in the same over, handing India only their third-ever Test win at Lord’s.