India vs England 4th Test: The Day 3rd of India vs England 4th Test was full of entertainment and shows many ups and downs. At a point of time in the game, England was looking to take over the Indian batsman, but Murali Vijay and Indian captain Virat Kohli helped India to keep fighting against the English team. At the end of the Game on day 3, India scored 451 for the loss of 7 wickets.
In the early sessions of the game, Spinners brought the English team back in the game and get major breakthroughs at the required time. But they failed to destroy the Indian wall in captain Virat Kohli as he is still at the crease at the score of 147 from 241 balls. Jayant Yadav is also providing the required support to Kohli as he is also on the crease and has scored 30 from 86 balls by the end of the day game.
Summary of the earlier game in India vs England 4th Test:
Playing first, England scored 400 with the help of the Century by Keaton Jennings and half-centuries by Moeen Ali and Joss Buttler. India started well even after losing the first early wicket. Murali Vijay and Cheteshwar Pujara stayed on te crease at the end of the second day’s game. But, on the start of the game on third day Murali Vijay succeeds to complete his ton, but Pujara falls early and English spinners utilised the opportunity and get early wickets.
Except for Jadeja, none else stayed on the crease for long but the Kohli was rock steady on the other hand and he completed his century and still on the crease. He is inches close to his 150 runs mark and Jayant Yadav is also looking good with the captain and giving the much-required partnership for the team. India already has a lead of 51 runs and India could be looking to take this lead par 100, wich could create troubles for England on day 4 game.
Here is the scorecard of India vs England 4th Test:
Lokesh Rahul b M Ali 24(41)
Murali Vijay c & b Adil Rashid 136(282)
Cheteshwar Pujara b J Ball 47(104)
Virat Kohli (c) batting 147(241)
Karun Nair lbw b M Ali 13(18)
Parthiv Patel (wk) c Bairstow b J Root 15(31)
Ravichandran Ashwin c K Jennings b J Root 0(3)
Ravindra Jadeja c J Buttler b Adil Rashid 25(46)
Jayant Yadav batting 30(86)
Still to bat: Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Umesh Yadav
Out of England’s bowling squad, Moeen Ali, Adil Rashid and Joe Root gets two wickets each and Jake Ball also gets a wicket.
Now the Day 4 of the game is really going to be filled with thriller and it will be exciting to see that what would be England’s strategy in the game for last two days and will Indians be able to utilise this opportunity to take the unbeatable lead of 3-0 over England or not. However, as per the current scenario, India is looking strong in the game looking at the kind of game wicket is playing and how Engish batsmen are going to counter that.
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