🏏England tour of India 2024: 1st Test: 25 - 29 Jan 2024 - Day 4🏏 - Page 58

148* by Pope is the highest by a visiting batter in second innings vs India in India since Alastair Cook's 176 in Ahmedabad in 2012 which incidentally came in the first Test of India's last series defeat at home.

Stumps on Day 3 and this has been a masterclass from Ollie Pope which has kept is team in the hunty. The lead is 126 and they'll start to believe if they can take this to anywhere around 160-170. He gets handshakes from the aIndians as he walks away, a standing ovation from his mates and it is his innings which has taken this Test into the fourth day. Could India have done better? yes, England applied themselves well, the pitch slowed down further, the ball became soft as it grew old, but the India trio of spinners were put away by a series of sweeps and reverse sweeps, starting from Duckett and Crawley, and carried forward by Ollie Pope.

The diminutive right-hander played a sublime knock, full of positivbe strokes and threw the bowlers off their lengths. Aiding him was Ben Foakes, the pair adding 112 for the 6th wicket. He was dropped on 110 by Axar Patel and he's already made India pay. How much will be too much for India? For starters, they still need to take 4 more wickets, but they do have the second new ball coming up shortly. This does look like a new-ball pitch and the match could be decided there. Join us for all the action at 9:30 am in the morning. For now, cheers and bye..

Romit: "Congratulations to England for a morally victorious day!"

Peter: "Re 75.6: Beg to differ on the notion that Jadeja has never been played this way. Rare in recent years, but there are plenty of examples from earlier in his career. Like when he was flayed to all parts by some bloke called Brendon McCullum, 10 years ago almost to the day." Fair point, I meant to add the caveat, 'in India'. Check out his career strike-rates on home soil (and ignore the one-over spells).

Zak Crawley: We're happy, unbelievable knock by Ollie. Few more runs in the morning it could be a tricky chase. (Talk before the start of the innings) Bat like the first innings, the batters did that really well, very pleased. (On getting out to Ashwin twice) He bowled a nice ball today, he's allowed to do that. nothing changes for me. We can learn a lot from Ollie. It was something we have grown up with (playing sweeps and reverse-sweeps), it's a nice way to put them off their lengths. We would have taken this for sure, another 45-50 runs, it could be a tricky chase for them, (On Rehan Ahmed) He's an amazing talent, he's very confident as well, hopefully he can get some runs in the morning.

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Scoring in the fourth inning will be very difficult.

The target should be below 250, then it'll be fine for India. Otherwise, the result will be different.

Originally posted by: Viswasruti

Scoring in the fourth inning will be very difficult.

The target should be below 250, then it'll be fine for India. Otherwise, the result will be different.

how is the pitch behaving ?

Originally posted by: KJasoosChulbulP

how is the pitch behaving ?

For now, its batter friendly. But from 4th day onwards, it'll be difficult to bat.