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LEEDS (AFP)
England beat India by five wickets to win the first Test in record-breaking fashion at Headingley on Tuesday.
Victory meant England became the first team to have five individual hundreds scored against them in a first-class game -- a span of over 60,000 matches -- and still win.
Set a target of 371, England finished on 373-5 as Jamie Smith ended the match with a six after opener Ben Duckett's 149 paved the way for a win that put the hosts 1-0 up in a five-match series.
Joe Root was 53 not out on his Yorkshire home ground.
India piled up 835 runs at Headingley with Rishabh Pant (134 and 118) just the second wicket-keeper to score hundreds in both innings of the same Test.
Only three times in Test history has a team made more runs in a match and lost.
Collapses of 7-41 and 6-31 at the end of each innings proved costly for India in Leeds.
Brief scores
India 1st Innings 471 (S Gill 147, R Pant 134, Y Jaiswal 101; B Stokes 4-66, J Tongue 4-86)
England 1st Innings 465 (O Pope 106, H Brook 99; J Bumrah 5-83, P Krishna 3-128)
India 2nd Innings 364 (KL Rahul 137, R Pant 118; J Tongue 3-72, B Carse 3-80)
England 2nd Innings 373-5 (B Duckett 149, Z Crawley 65, J Root 53 no)
Result: England won by five wickets
Player-of-the-match: Ben Duckett (ENG)
Series: England lead five-match series 1-0
