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The road to an easy victory now becomes more difficult for the host

England now chasing the target of 368 runs in the fourth innings, where even giving a target of 300 at one time seemed difficult for India. The opening pair of the hosts scored 77 runs at the end of the fourth day.

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Last updated: 06.09.2021
India vs England 4th Test 2021

When the fourth day’s play started, the hosts England were almost out of the match when India still had 7 wickets left and their score was 270 runs. But only 26 runs were added to the score when Ravindra Jadeja was found in front of the wicket on Chris Woakes’s ball and given out. Ajinkya has now come to support captain Virat Kohli, but Chris Woakes showed him the way back on the score of zero. Now everything was on captain Virat Kohli but on the score of 44, Moeen Ali got him caught at the hands of Robinson who was standing at slips and brought England back in the match.

 

From 3 wickets for 296 to 312 for 6 wickets India had completely lost the grip of the match. Everyone hoped that India might get out soon but Rishabh Pant and Shardul Thakur put on a 100-run partnership and completely changed the course of the match.

 

— Shivam Sharma (@greenghost52) September 5, 2021

 

Thanks to the innings of Rishabh Pant and Shradul Thakur, India’s score, where even 350 seemed difficult, was now beyond 400. 6 wickets for 312 8 for 450 India had taken a firm grip in the match.

 

— Shivam Sharma (@greenghost52) September 5, 2021


Where the thinking of the England captain seemed completely incomprehensible when he had to make a lot of effort to get India's last four wickets. Craig Overton took the last wicket of Umesh Yadav to bowl India's innings out for 460 runs in the second innings. The host now gets the target of 368 runs in the fourth innings, where even giving a target of 300 at one time seemed difficult for India. England definitely lacked a specialist bowling bowler like Matthew Hoggard or Andrew Flintoff who managed to get the last wickets of the opposition team.

 

The opening pair of the hosts scored 77 runs at the end of the fourth day and still needed 291 runs in 95 overs in the last day's play. Where India will be a little unhappy, come back without any wickets after giving a big target.

 

— Shivam Sharma (@greenghost52) September 5, 2021


Where India had the opportunity to completely exclude England from the match but the bowlers could not do much. Even after three matches, if you do not give place to Ashwin in the team, then it is definitely wrong somewhere

 

Now from here all three options are open for both the teams, where the host will need another captaincy innings of their captain to win, while India will be a bit difficult to all-out England due to their current bowling.

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