🏏England tour of India 2024: 1st Test: 25 - 29 Jan 2024 - Day 4🏏 - Page 66

Now we have 2 sessions and a whole day tomorrow.

We must win this test match.

Cmon India.. all the best👍

Lunch, day four: Take a bow, Ollie Pope! Every Indian player congratulating him, walks off to a standing ovation and his team-mates applaud and pat him on the back. After conceding a 190-run lead, England have now set India a target of 231. At 163/5, the visitors were in a spot of bother yesterday afternoon. But England's vice-captain has played a memorable knock. Swept and reverse-swept to unsettle the Indian spinners and stitched three crucial partnerships (112, 64 and 80) with the lower order. England added 104 runs to their overnight score.

England didn't allow their opponents to roll them over and added 104 runs at a brisk pace to their overnight score. Right then, this is the equation - five sessions remain | 230 runs vs 10 wickets!

Ollie Pope in India

First 9 innings: 154 runs (Avg 17.11). This innings: 196

Highest first innings deficit outscored by a single batter in second innings

274 VVS Laxman (281) v Aus Kolkata 2001

246 B McCullum (302) v Ind Wellington 2014

230 D Amiss (262*) v WI Kingston 1974

227 A Flower (232*) v Ind Nagpur 2000

221 A Cook (235*) v Aus Brisbane 2010

210 G Kirtsen (275) v Eng Durban 1999

190 Ollie Pope (196) v Ind Hyderabad 2024

END OF OVER 1

1 run

IND: 1/0

CRR: 1.00

YBK Jaiswal

0 (3)

RG Sharma

1 (3)

JE Root

1-0-1-0

Leach is currently off the field. Lawrence is on as sub

1.1

Mark Wood to Rohit, FOUR, to deep backward point

1.4

Mark Wood to Rohit, FOUR, to third man

END OF OVER 2

9 runs

IND: 10/0

CRR: 5.00

YBK Jaiswal

0 (4)

RG Sharma

9 (8)

MA Wood

1-0-8-0

JE Root

1-0-1-0