🏏England tour of India 2024: 1st Test: 25 - 29 Jan 2024 - Day 4🏏 - Page 10

8.3

Jack Leach to Rohit, FOUR, cracking shot, too short from Leach - Rohit backs away, opens up the off-side and then cuts it crisply past cover-point, no need to run for those

Rehaan Shaikh: "Stokes should trust Joe Root. He has the Golden arm for England."

END OF OVER 9

7 runs

IND: 63/0

CRR: 7.00

RG Sharma

19 (15)

YBK Jaiswal

41 (39)

MJ Leach

3-0-14-0

TW Hartley

4-0-39-0

Fastest team 50s for India in men's Tests: (where known)

5.3 vs ENG, Chennai 2008

5.3 vs WI, Port of Spain 2023

5.5 vs SL, Colombo 1985

6.3 vs ENG, Hyderabad 2024

The top three instances came in either the third or fourth innings of the match.

9.2

Tom Hartley to Rohit, FOUR, lovely, they're toying with poor Hartley - full and at the stumps, Rohit plays it off the length, rolled his wrists and swept it past square leg for a boundary

END OF OVER 10

5 runs

IND: 68/0

CRR: 6.80

RG Sharma

23 (20)

YBK Jaiswal

42 (40)

TW Hartley

5-0-44-0

MJ Leach

3-0-14-0

"Er...this is looking a tad ominous for England...and Hartley in particular. Risk of him becoming the new Simon Kerrigan here?" You're not the first to think of another former Lancs left-arm spinner, Andy C. But I think England will have expected this

10.5

Jack Leach to Jaiswal, FOUR, too full, too wide and it's another boundary for young Jaiswal - gets to the pitch of the ball and then drills it wide of extra-cover, no need to run for those

END OF OVER 11

5 runs

IND: 73/0

CRR: 6.63

YBK Jaiswal

47 (46)

RG Sharma

23 (20)

MJ Leach

4-0-19-0

TW Hartley

5-0-44-0

Jaiswal 52(48)💙

India 78/0.

Rohit 23

Half century for Jaiswal