🏏England tour of India 2024: 1st Test: 25 - 29 Jan 2024 - Day 4🏏 - Page 78

Shravan: "Pope and KL have shown immense concentration and application needed to score on this pitch. Pope arguably deserves a greater pat considering he was up against a high quality attack. However KL does deserve a mention for holding fort while the walls crumble around him and making it look easy at that!"

Riya: "Hartley for 10 wickets…anyone?"

Dilip Sah: "One can easily understand now why Stokes persisted with bowling Hartley for so long despite him being expensive. Stokes had been preparing him for the 4th and a special innings."

32.4

Root to Rahul, out Lbw!! Rahul has been given OUT LBW, he's reviewed this, but this does look close, went back on the tuck and missed, is it bouncing over? Has it pitched outside leg? Is there an inside edge? UltraEdge in and there's no bat. Onto ball-tracking: It's three reds, hitting the leg-stump and Shreyas Iyer is OUT. India in big trouble now. They've lost half their side now - was the off-break that spun back into the right-hander, Rahul went right back on the tuck and missed, was very deep and the ball was crashing into the leg-stump. Rahul lbw b Root 22(48) [4s-3]

Root to Rahul, THATS OUT!! Lbw!!

END OF OVER 33

5 runs • 1 wicket

IND: 107/5

CRR: 3.24

RA Jadeja

0 (2)

SS Iyer

3 (11)

JE Root

11-2-26-1

TW Hartley

12-2-32-4

Jadeja in, made 87 in the first innings, but he has a big job on hand now. Had a rare bad Test with the ball, can he make amends?

Vaibhav : "Shravan with a crucial jinx to dismiss KL."

Vivek: "As an Indian fan, I have a sense of foreboding every time the ball-by-ball commentary takes longer than usual to update. And I was just proved right..."

Good thing is that there are 4 more tests and India can bounce back.

DanielAlexander: "Root has just broken Hartley's 10-fer dream"