India captain Shubman Gill said on Monday that squaring the Test series with England at 2-2 “means so much” after his side won a thrilling match at the Oval by six runs.

“It means so much,” Gill told the BBC. “This was a very hard-fought series. Both teams throwing punches and you could never really predict after Day Four who was going to win the match.  We are a young team, but before the start of the series we spoke about how we didn’t want to be looked at as a young team... and I think we showed that today.” 

England captain Ben Stokes, who missed the Oval match with an injury, said it had been an “incredible series”, with all five matches going to a fifth and final day. “The commitment and energy has been outstanding,” he said.