Today was the second day of the fourth match of the five -match Test series between India and England. England have scored 225 runs for two wickets in the first innings by the end of Thursday’s play. At the time of stumps, Oli Pope 20 and Joe Route 11 runs at the crease. Currently, England are 133 runs behind India. Earlier, India’s innings was reduced to 358 runs.
Docket-Crauli became trouble for India
Jack Craulie and Ben Docket made England a great start in the first innings. The two shared a 166 -run partnership for the first wicket, which was broken by Ravindra Jadeja. He made Caruli his victim. He was dismissed for 84 runs in 113 balls with the help of 13 fours and a six. After this, Ben Docket, who was playing the first match of his Test career, showed Anshul Kamboj to the pavilion. Docket was dismissed by 94 runs with the help of 13 fours. However, he missed out on completing his century by six runs. By the end of the day’s play, Oli Pope has scored 20 in 42 balls and Joe Root is at the crease by scoring 11 runs in 27 balls. Anshul Kamboj and Ravindra Jadeja have taken one wicket each for India.
The day’s game started from 264/4
The day’s game started with a score of 264/4. At that time Ravindra Jadeja and Shardul Thakur were present at the crease after scoring 19-19 runs. In the first session, Jofra Archer of England bowled Jadeja while bowling deadly. He was able to score 20 runs. After this, Washington Sundar, who came to bat, took the front with Shardul. The two shared a 48 -run partnership for the sixth wicket. Shardul was hunted by Ben Stokes. He returned to the pavilion after scoring 41 runs in 88 balls.
Pant returns despite fracture in the thumb
After Shardul, Rishabh Pant came for batting. In fact, Pant was injured on the early day of the fourth match of the five -match Test series between India and England. At that time he was on a score of 37 and was injured in an attempt to play reverse sweep shot. After this, he had to go out after retiring hurt. However, on the second day, Pant returned to the ground once again and completed the 18th of his Test career in 71 balls. Despite groaning with pain, Pant managed to play a brilliant innings of 54 runs with the help of three fours and two sixes in 75 balls. Anshul Kamboj could not even open an account in the first innings against England while Bumrah was dismissed for four runs. Mohammad Siraj remained unbeaten after scoring five runs. Earlier, Yashasvi Jaiswal scored 58, KL Rahul 46, Sai Sudarshan 61 and Shubman Gill scored 12 runs. For England, Ben Stokes got five, Jofra Archer got three and Chris Woakes and Liam Dawson got one wicket each.
