IND vs ENG 2nd Test Day 3 Highlights: England 67/1 at Stumps, 332 away from victory

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IND vs ENG 2nd Test Day 4 Highlights: India wins by 106 runs to level series 1-1

India vs England Day 4: Check the highlights, score and updates from Day 4 of the 2nd Test match between India and England being played at the ACA-VDCA Cricket Stadium in Visakhapatnam.

England chops off 67 runs off the massive 399 target that stood in front of it. Ben Duckett and Zak Crawley were off in their usual fashion and played their shots. Ravichandran Ashwin was called in to break their partnership and he did so with the help of a sharp catch from Bharat to remove Duckett. Rehan Ahmed did his job as night watchman and he will walk out with Crawley to push England closer to a victory and a 2-0 lead.

Axar Patel in to bowl the final over of the day. Rehan Ahmed faces him. Makes room and cuts him away for one run. Crawley gets a single drive to cover. FOUR! Rehan charges down but it is only an inside edge that flies past mid wicket. Edged and FOUR! A wild slash which runs wide of the slip fielder. 

FOUR! Crawley drives down the ground against Ashwin.

Kuldeep to Crawley, the ball turns into the right hander, takes his gloves and runs down to fine leg, allowing the batters to collect two runs. Another single off the fourth ball makes it three runs in the over.

Ashwin comes into the attack. And the reverse sweep is out from Duckett. He is not quite in control but still gets the boundary. WICKET! Ashwin gets Duckett. He leans in for a defence but an inside edge onto the pads throws the ball up in the air. Bharat with a dive gets under it. 

Ben Duckett c Bharat b Ashwin 28 (27)

Rehan Ahmed in as the watchman.

Kuldeep to Duckett. FOUR! Another sweep from Duckett which beats the man at deep square leg. Five runs from the over.

Bumrah tests the edge again and Crawley still survives. Just the final ball comes on his pads and Crawley is more than happy clipping it away through square leg.

FOUR! Duckett continues to attack Kuldeep. Slog sweeps a full one, there is a deep square leg for that shot but this one beats him. Duckett rocks on the back foot and glides it away to fine leg for two.

Just two runs from the next Bumrah over. Crawley tucks a delivery rising on him behind square.

A change in attack - Kuldeep Yadav replaces Mukesh Kumar. Beaten! Kuldeep gets the very first delivery to go straight and beats the outside edge of Crawley. SIX! Crawley uses his long levers to get to the pitch and tonk the ball over the long on fence. A single off the final delivery.

Bumrah again. Duckett gets on his toes to punch a good-length delivery through covers for FOUR.

Mukesh to Duckett now. Swipes the second delivery to fine leg for a run, it is a No Ball too. Crawley shuffles across to work a ball towards the on side but gets it on the pad. Half an appeal from India which does not take long to die down. FOUR! Crawley makes use of the full length and leans in for an on-drive. Another boundary! On the pads and Crawley flicks it away through mid wicket.

Bumrah again. Crawley swings and misses and the Indians decide against a review. After moving the ball away, Bumrah gets the ball to move and strikes Crawley on the pads. A maiden over from Bumrah.

Mukesh Kumar shares the new ball. FOUR! Duckett slaps hard at a delivery which did not have too much width on it. Still manages to get enough on it to get it to the fence. FOUR again! Lofted over the cover region.

Bumrah probes the outside edge of Crawley with his movement away from the right hander. Crawley gets the first run with a push wide of mid on. That’s the only run from the over.

Zack Crawley and Ben Duckett walk in to the centre. Jasprit Bumrah will start proceedings for India.

Rehan to continue. WICKET! Ashwin looks to drive this full delivery but gets an edge. Foakes is yet again up to the mark with his glove work and holds on to it.

Ravichandran Ashwin c Foakes b Rehan 29 (61)

ENGLAND NEEDS 399 RUNS TO WIN

Bumrah is gone! He scored a 26-ball duck. Was rock solid with his defence, this time he tries to push the full ball by Hartley towards covers, gets an outside edge to second slip. 

Last man Mukesh Kumar in. Four wickets for Hartley. 

Ashwin smacks Rehan for a SIX and a four to get India’s lead close to 400. Not a lot of run scoring opportunities coming but Ashwin cashing in on everything that he thinks he can hit. 

Two runs in the last two overs. Rehan and Hartley have been bowling tight lines, not allowing any of the batter to open the arms. 

Ashwin has found two balls and he smacked it for four and a double on that. Runs aren’t coming that easy for India now. Bumrah and Ashwin happy to defend though. 

Ashwin not willing to give Bumrah strike for the most part of the over. Runs not coming but these two have struck to their defences. 

Ashwin dropped at first slip! Crawley drops a regular catch. Came in very fast, on the face and he is unable to grab the ball. 

Hartley from the other end. OUT! Kuldeep Yadav goes for a slog sweep and is caught square leg. India eight down. 

Jasprit Bumrah in at 10. 

Ashwin on the strike facing Rehan Ahmed. OUT! Bharat goes for a pull and hits it straight to short midwicket. A wicket in the first over after Tea. India seven down. 

Kuldeep Yadav at the crease now. 

KS Bharat and R Ashwin come out to bat with an aim of taking India’s innings till tomorrow. India leads by 370 runs. England requires four more wickets. Will they be able to bat today? 

India has pulled ahead in the contest courtesy of the century from Shubman Gill. Axar Patel played a vital 45-run innings too as the duo built up a partnership worth 89 runs. But their wickets in quick succession has given England a glimmer of hope. How much further can India take this lead to is now upto Bharat and Ashwin.

Hartley to bowl. FOUR! Finally a boundary for Bharat. He gets to the pitch and punches down through mid on and beats the fielder. 

Bharat might be in trouble. Rehan bowls a wrong one and strikes Bharat on the pad. The DRS shows the turn takes it down the leg stump. Another maiden over.

Two leg byes for Ravichandran Ashwin from the Hartley over. He is yet to get off the mark.

The runs drying up since the fall of the wicket. Bharat not willing to do anything other than blocking off the deliveries. Axar Patel too resorting to a similar approach. He might be in trouble, he misses his swipe off a delivery which keeps low. The umpire denies the appeals but England has gone up. The DRS shows three reds and Axar has to walk bat.

Axar Patel lbw b Hartley 45 (84)

Srikar Bharat gets off the mark with a push down to mid off against Rehan. FOUR! Rehan drifts down leg and Axar goes on his backfoot to send it to the fine leg fence.

GILL DEPARTS! He perishes trying to reverse sweep Bashir. Misses the shot and takes the glove for Foakes to pouch it. England reviews the on-field call and gets the decision. A big wicket for Stokes and his side.

Shubman Gill c Foakes b Bashir 104 (147)

FOUR! Axar Patel spots Ben Stokes come up from the usual mid on spot and he charges down against Rehan to tonk the ball through the region. The ball did not beat the England skipper by much. 

Hartley again. Gill slaps a half volley on the on side but cannot place it in the gap. Just one run from that shot. Hartley bowls a No Ball which gets another run for India.

Bashir to Gill, two runs with a clip to deep square leg. That’s the 200 for India. HUNDRED! A tap to deep square leg again. Gill has his moment in the spotlight. He breaks the 12-inning century drought. And it could not have come at a better time. He gets to it in 132 balls.

Gill closing in on century. Three more runs left. India now leads by 341 runs. A good first hour for India in this session. 

Gill once again takes out the slog sweep against Bashir and gets a boundary!

Runs have dried down but nothing much to trouble the Indian batters as of now. Tight lines by England. Shubman Gill has moved into 90s now. 

The pitch is still good enough to bat long here. Gill and Axar playing comfortably. 

Hartley replaces Rehan and Axar welcomes him with a cover drive for four. 

Gill and Axar are rotating the strike very easily now. Six singles in that Rehan over. Fifty partnership between these two comes up. 

And the 300-run lead comes up for India in style! SIX over long off against Rehan. He follows it with a slog sweep for four towards backward square leg. And another boundary, this time from the right of mid-on. 14 runs from the over. 

150 comes up for India as Axar drives Anderson’s half-volley for four towards covers. India nearing a 300-run lead now. Not much movement there. 

Right, so Anderson is bowling in by hiding the shine of the ball. England expecting the ball to reverse at this stage. Not much movement right now though. Just a single in that over. 

Rehan Ahmed from the other end. Five singles in that over. 

A double to start the over. Axar pushes a length ball towards covers to get a boundary. Nine runs off the over. 

Anderson begins the proceedings. Gill and Axar have a task on their hands. India effectively 273/4 at the start of this session. How much more can they add?

102 runs at the expense of four wickets. England session! James Anderson started with his usual best, swinging and moving the ball to get Rohit Sharma and Yashasvi Jaiswal. It was then the rebuild by Shreyas Iyer and Shubman Gill that got India’s run rate going, taking the lead past 200. But Ben Stokes pulled off a blinder to remove Iyer before Hartley accounted for debutant Patidar and swing the match wide open once again. Gill is unbeaten on 60 and will decide the fate of this match.

Rehan to bowl the final over of the session. Just a single off it. Axar gets one that stays low and he fends it off somehow. 

James Anderson back into the attack. Gill on strike. Works the second delivery through square leg for two runs. Guides the next down to third man for one more run.

Four singles in the Hartley over. Axar Patel gets off the mark too. Rehan Ahmed then follows with a maiden over. Axar has a favourable match up against the leg spinner, but given the flurry of wickets, he decides to play it safe.

FOUR! Rehan again misses the length. It is pitched short which allows Patidar to free his arms and cut it away. His first boundary of the innings. OUT! Patidar is gone! He gets a faint inside edge and Ben Foakes pulls off another low catch. 

Rajat Patidar c Foakes b Rehan 9 (18)

Axar Patel walks in at No. 6.

A single each from Rehan and Hartley’s overs. Rajat Patidar, who faced most of the deliveries in the two overs, looking to get his eye in. 

Iyer is OUT! He tries to step out and take on Hartley, ends up slicing the ball. Ben Stokes runs back from mid off to grab a sensational catch.

Shreyas Iyer c Stokes b Hartley 29 (52)

Rajat Patidar works his first delivery down to deep mid wicket and gets off the mark. Gill picks a quick single to mid wicket, has to scamper through but makes it. Three singles off the final three deliveries makes it five runs from the over.

FIFTY FOR SHUBMAN GILL! Back-to-back boundaries for Gill off Rehan to get to a half century after 12 innings. 

FOUR! Gill takes a long stride in front, sweeps this full toss from Hartley and breaches the ropes. India crosses 100 runs. Seven runs from the over.

FOUR! Iyer picks up an over-pitched delivery from Hartley and glides it through the on side with brilliant use of his wrists. Runs starting to flow now. Taps the final ball down to long off for a single.

Three singles from Hartley’s over. 

FOUR! Gill reads the short ball from Rehan Ahmed, makes room and cuts it away to the boundary. Another boundary off the fifth delivery in similar fashion. 

Gill and Iyer getting the field placing to pick singles at will. They’re simply knocking the ball around and rotating strike. Four runs from this Bashir over.

The first thirty minutes of the day belonged to England, but Gill and Iyer have fought back well in the last half hour. India’s scoreboard is ticking now with regular strike rotation and boundaries. India is now 218 runs ahead of England. 

Gill has assumed the aggressor role here. Although he was lucky again as his edge went JUST past the first slip for four. The next ball, he gently guided it towards fine leg for another four. India’s lead has gone past 200 now. 

Indian batters have opened up now. The strike rotation is there and Gill just finished Bashir’s over with a SIX down the ground! 

Shoaib Bashir into the attack. Gill and Iyer have decided to charge Bashir. Both have come down the track in the same over; haven’t able to find the fence though. 

Hartley and Anderson continue to ask questions to Indians. Tight lines. Both Gill and Iyer unable to break free. 

It’s appeal for LBW against Gill again, this time against Anderson. Decision is not out this time. England takes the review. Ball tracking shows umpire’s call and Gill survives again! 

Two right handers in, Tom Hartley is into the attack now. Gill is off the mark with a short-arm jab for four towards midwicket. OUT! Gill is given LBW. He has taken a review, but it is very close. Well, that was a good review in the end, as ultra edge finds an edge off the bat. Gill didn’t know. He took a while to take that review. 

And another! Anderson strikes again and this time its Jaiswal who has to walk back. Bait delivery, driving length, Jaiswal went for it, gets the edge straight to slips. India two down very early in the morning. 

Yashasvi Jaiswal c Root b Anderson 17. Shreyas Iyer in at number four.

James Anderson from the other end. WOW! Rohit Sharma is gone! Beauty by Anderson and the off stump goes cartwheeling. Angling in, seams away, Rohit plays line and ball goes past outside edge and crashes into the stump. 

Rohit Sharma b Anderson 13. Shubman Gill walks in.

Root begins with a slip and a leg slip to Rohit. Around the stumps on middle and leg stump lines. A maiden to start with. 

Yashasvi Jaiswal and Rohit Sharma walk into bat. England begins with spin: Joe Root. 

Overnight dew on top of the surface, says Eoin Morgan. Dinesh Karthik reckons cracks have expanded and pitch will start playing tricks slowly. 

“The wicket is not doing a lot. There’s no demons in the wicket. Yes, the odd ball might turn, yes the odd ball might swing. Even with the new ball, nothing much was happening. It felt like you’d rather bowl with the older ball than the new ball. But I feel the wicket is really good.”

- India’s batting. It hasn’t really come alive apart from individual performances. Rohit Sharma, Shubman Gill, and Shreyas Iyer have an opportunity to get back into groove. Till the end of day 2, pitch has been pretty decent to bat. 

- Which brings us to our next point: pitch. Coming into third day, expect the pitch to become slightly slow and aid more turn. It has already shown signs with irregular bounce in some areas. 

- England will aim India’s lead doesn’t go past 350 since it has to bat last on this pitch. Expect extended spells from Shoaib Bashir and Tom Hartley. 

- Yashasvi Jaiswal scores a double hundred; India adds 60 runs and finishes the innings at 396. 

- England starts well and was 114/1 at one point. Jasprit Bumrah takes six, Kuldeep Yadav picks three after Axar Patel gave breakthrough. England bowled out for 253. 

- Bumrah completes 150 Test wickets in the process. 

- India bats again, plays five overs adding 28 more to the 143-run lead and is effectively 171/0 starting today. 

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