I Sharma’s five for 51 in the just concluded test at Birmingham against England was in a losing cause to provide the fifteenth occasion of an Indian bowler’s five-wicket haul in an innings going in vain against England in England. All such occasions are tabulated below

No	Player	Overs	M	Runs	W	Inns	Opposition	Ground	Start Date
1	M Nissar	26.0	3	93	5	1	v England	Lord’s	25 Jun 1932
2	L Amar Singh	25.1	11	35	6	2	v England	Lord’s	27 Jun 1936
3	M Nissar	26.0	2	120	5	1	v England	The Oval	15 Aug 1936
4	L Amarnath	57.0	18	118	5	2	v England	Lord’s	22 Jun 1946
5	Ghulam Ahmed	63.0	24	100	5	2	v England	Leeds	05 Jun 1952
6	MH Mankad	73.0	24	196	5	2	v England	Lord’s	19 Jun 1952
7	RB Desai	31.4	8	89	5	2	v England	Lord’s	18 Jun 1959
8	Surendranath	47.1	17	115	5	1	v England	Manchester	23 Jul 1959
9	Surendranath	51.3	25	75	5	2	v England	The Oval	20 Aug 1959
10	BS Chandrasekhar	53.0	9	127	5	2	v England	Lord’s	22 Jun 1967
11	BS Bedi	64.2	8	226	6	1	v England	Lord’s	20 Jun 1974
12	N Kapil Dev	48.0	15	146	5	1	v England	Birmingham	12 Jul 1979
13	N Kapil Dev	43.0	8	125	5	1	v England	Lord’s	10 Jun 1982
14	P Kumar	40.3	10	106	5	1	v England	Lord’s	21 Jul 2011
15	I Sharma	13.0	0	51	5	3	v England	Birmingham	01 Aug 2018