🏏India tour of England: Eng vs India, 4th Test. July 23-27, Day 5 - Page 4

Longest gaps between Test appearances

142 - Gareth Batty (ENG)

118 - Jaydev Unadkat (IND)

114 - Martin Bicknell (ENG)

109 - Floyd Reifer (WI)

104 - Younis Ahmed (PAK)

103 - Derek Shackleton (ENG)

102 - Liam Dawson (ENG)**

England has won all four tosses in this Test series. No team winning the toss and bowling first has ever won an Old Trafford Test previously (3 lost, 8 draws).

India has not won a Test match in Manchester on nine previous occasions. Whereas England has lost just 2 out of 20 Tests (14 won, 4 draws) at Old Trafford in this century.

Raaghav: Tired of seeing Shardul being used as a "Dont know who to pick, let's go with him only" option at this point.

Liam : "Dawson is listed as number 11 on your list for England. Is that correct, averaging 35 with 18 hundreds in FC so I'd assume not?? " No. I'd expect him to come in at 8. A formidable tail, though. Carse at 10 and Archer at 11. Both could be 8s in other line-ups

Sas: "Last time Dawson played a test against India Nair had a triple century." Gosh, yes, that puts it in context. His debut too. Funny old careers for the pair of them!

Jaiswal play sensibly

Just don't give your wk

Saran M: Ohhh MAN unfortunate! Expected Karun Nair to be on the playing 11. He is very assured and can convert it into big score at any time. Deserved long run in this series.

Plv Rajshekar: @Saran M: Agree, and Nair is a good enough slip fielder too, something India badly need after the retirements of Rohit and Kohli.

Originally posted by: Prizi

Jaiswal play sensibly

Just don't give your wk

Yeah, exactly my thought on back of my mind

1000 Test runs for KL Rahul in England - fifth Indian batter to reach the milestone after Tendulkar (1575), Dravid (1376), Gavaskar (1152) and Virat Kohli (1096).