🏏England tour of India 2024: 1st Test: 25 - 29 Jan 2024 - Day 4🏏 - Page 60

Deepankar DM: "Look at the scorecard at Gabba. Suddenly there's a double-wicket and Australia aren't cruising anymore. Same thing could happen here in the fourth innings and in India, it happens quicker. Indian batters and management need to be wary of that."

PJ: "This is incredible from England, but I am also surprised by the lack of energy and some of the decisions from India. Easy singles to Hartley, no Siraj for a long time despite some reverse and variable bounce. "

England lead by 198 runs

Hope on Jaiswal and Rohit to score runs.

Drinks are on the field now. Pope has looked so good and England's lead is almost 200. Alarm bells ringing in the Indian camp?

Pratik Soholkar: "The best innings I have seen so far by a visiting batsman against India this..take a bow Ollie Pope..deserves a double.."

Ummer: "Hartley has some batting experience and could be useful for England."

Mustafa Moudi: "From being the lowest scoring batsman in Top 7 of either sides in the 1st innings, to becoming the highest scorer from the either side. Ollie Pope has become a HERO from ZERO. That's the beauty of Test match, you always get a 2nd chance."

The last successful 150+ fourth innings chase in India was 155 by India against Australia in Delhi in March 2013 (India won by six wickets).

Most wickets for India after 33 Tests

183 R Ashwin

155 R Jadeja

145 J Bumrah *

144 Harbhajan/ A Kumble

143 EAS Prasanna

Paras Mhambrey | India bowling coach - We were challenged, we knew how they were going to play, they're accessing different areas unlike the other teams when they come to the sub-continent. To be honest, we never thought that they would be rolled over like in the past, but we knew we would be challenged with our bowling. But we know we have the class and the experience in our bowling unit to come up trumps. 'You don't need to coach him' (on Bumrah), he's exceptionally skilled, always brings something different to the table. He' s always energetic, always ready to speak with the other bowlers, gives plenty of tips to Rohit, he just acts like a brother and looks to be on top of his game. If I look at the bowling perspective, all we need is to bowl 4 good balls, as soon as it comes, it's better for us. It's not the right thing to think about keeping the lead down to 140-150, the right thing is to hit the right areas, land a chunk of balls in a good area and get those 4 good balls as early as we can, that's what we're thinking right now.