🏏England tour of India 2024: 2nd Test: 02 - 06 Feb 2024 - Day 4🏏 - Page 65

That will also be lunch on Day 4. The last couple of overs have made it India's session with five wickets falling in the morning. While Crawley and Bairstow were in the middle, England looked to be in the game, but the hosts are well on top now with both of them falling back to back.Crawley, in particular, was a big blow as he was batting superbly on 73, having seen off the early spell of Bumrah in the morning before looking secure against Ashwin who picked up two wickets today and bowled beautifully. He fell to Kuldeep who was brought into the attack very late, only minutes before the lunch break, and struck in his very first over. Before him, Axar Patel had operated unchanged from that end in an extended spell in which he went at over five runs an over. England, true to word, batting positively and scored close to 130 runs in 29 overs in the session. But they're well on the back foot now. Back in 40..

Lunch ke baad jaldi jaldi out karo..

Tea tak wait mat karo.

C'mon India..

Bit surprised by the Crawley LBW.

You could clearly see the leg stump at the point of impact- it clearly looked like umpire's call or missing,

Very surprised DRS had it in line!

Not that India will be complaining though!

Ben Foakes or Ben Stokes, who is next in line? I don't mind either of them.

Cheers..

RM: "I agree with John - big chases tend to look *on*, until all of a sudden they don't. India just needed to persevere - which is what they did. There's no need to get ahead of things and catastrophise…"

Hemant: "@John, it is also thanks to some weird bowling and fielding decisions that captains seem to make in the light of Bazball. Baffling really, it feels like the fear of losing does something to the shrewd minds."

"Isn't it always the way with these big chases? There's a good partnership and you start to believe, then they lose some wickets and you remember why successful big chases are so rare." John, it has been slightly different with Bazball because they have been able to bat without consequences for so long. Bumrah around the wicket

END OF OVER 47

5 runs

ENG: 203/6

CRR: 4.31

BA Stokes

4 (15)

BT Foakes

5 (11)

JJ Bumrah

14-4-37-1

Kuldeep Yadav

7-0-26-1

END OF OVER 50

4 runs

ENG: 214/6

CRR: 4.28

BA Stokes

9 (24)

BT Foakes

11 (20)

Kuldeep Yadav

9-0-33-1

JJ Bumrah

15-4-41-1

Bring ash back