Former India player turned veteran commentator Aakash Chopra feels that the Indian batting collapse on the fourth day of the Headingley Test against England was not expected. Team India lost the match by an innings-and-76-runs as well.

With the win, England has levelled the five-match Test series a swell. While reviewing the fourth day’s play in a video shared on his YouTube channel, Aakash Chopra said: “We had hopes because the Indian team had given us permission to dream a little, to fantasise and write a fairy tale. But nothing like that happened. We should have been ready for a reality shock.”

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He continued: “Nasser Hussain had said that this is Headingley and not Kolkata; the second new ball does a lot on the Headingley pitch, and you are not out of the woods. Forget out of the woods; we were completely buried in the end.”

Notably, Team India lost their last eight wickets within 63 runs whereas Ollie Robinson claimed a five-wicket haul and did the main damage. Aakash Chopra, however, added that the performance at Headingley is a blow to the eam as well.

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“We lost the remaining eight wickets in just one session. The second new ball demolished the castles in the air we had built. England have got the win; the series is standing at 1-1. We need to agree that after the high at Lord’s, we saw a slight shock at Leeds. Cheteshwar Pujara, it was an incoming delivery, he does a shoulder arm, the umpire gives not out, but was subsequently given out as the ball was hitting the stumps. After that Kohli got out, and then the palace we had built with a pack of cards disappeared all of a sudden,” Aakash Chopra concluded.