Shubham Gill And India Dominate On Day 4 Vs ENG:Indian Cricket Team captain Shubman Gill, after making a double century in the first innings, scored a 150 in the second to put India in the driving seat on the fourth day of the ongoing Test match.
Today was Day Four of the second England vs India Test of the five-match Anderson-Tendulkar Trophy. This match is being played at Edgbaston in Birmingham and saw the home team win the toss, deciding to bat first on a flat pitch.
The Indian took advantage of the fine batting conditions on Day One. While KL Rahul departed for cheap, and Karun Nair couldn’t convert a great start into a big score, Yashasvi Jaiswal scored 87 and built a good partnership with Gill before getting out. But around the 60th over, Rishabh Pant got out for 25, immediately followed by Nitish Kumar Reddy’s dismissal. The day ended with the skipper, having scored a ton, and Ravindra Jadeja rescuing the inning at 310/5.
On Day Two, Shubman converted his 100 into a double-hundred. First, Jadeja (89) played a supporting role, then Washington Sundar did the same (42). The first Indian innings ended on 587, with Gill making the highest score by an Indian on English soil and the highest score by an Indian captain anywhere. In the last hour of the day, England came out to bat and lost three quick wickets, as their score was 77/3 at the end of Day Two.
Day Three started with Mohammed Siraj taking two more wickets, dismissing Joe Root and captain Ben Stokes. But then, Harry Brook and Jamie Smith built a 300+ run partnership, both scoring over 150 runs. But with six zero-run innings, England fell 180 runs short in the first inning, getting dismissed for 407. The day ended with Jaiwal getting out at 28 and India at 64/1.
Shubham Gill And India Dominate On Day 4 Vs ENG
Day four started with KL Rahul and Karun Nair on strike. Like the first inning, Nair got off to a decent start but did not make much of it, getting out for 26. Rahul scored a half-century on this day, and so did Rishabh Pant, as did Ravindra Jadeja. But what was the common denominator between them? All three of them reached the milestone batting alongside Shubman Gill. The Indian skipper, just like in the first inning, dominated proceedings and scored big.
However, this time, Gill scored like he was playing limited-overs cricket. First his 50, then his 100 was nearly run-a-ball. This trend continued as he converted his ton into a big one. With a three-digit score in the second inning, the Indian captain became only the ninth cricketer in Test history to score a double-century and a century in a single game. Before him, Sunil Gavaskar was the only Indian to have done so.
Gill went on to make a 150, the first player to make a 200 and a 150 in a match. His dismissal at the hands of Shoaib Bashir for 161 was a soft one and came when India had already crossed the 400-run mark, with their lead nearing 600 runs. At this point, many were calling for a declaration from the Indians. Gill made 430 runs in this match, the second-most ever in one Test, behind Graham Gooch’s 456 in 1990 against India.
It came soon after Nitish Reddy got out for cheap again. The Men in Blue declared their second inning at 427/6, with a lead of 607 runs. To win this match, England has to chase the biggest fourth-inning total in first-class cricket history.
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With about an hour remaining in the day’s play, England still had to survive a barrage by the Indian bowlers. The three pacers – Mohammed Siraj, Akash Deep, and Prasidh Krishna – looked on song in their spells with the new ball towards the end of the day.
The first wicket came early. Zak Crawley, looking to get off to a flying start, smashed Siraj through point and was caught for a duck. But then, Ben Duckett started smacking the ball all over the field like in T20 cricket.
Akash Deep, who took four wickets in the first inning, looked lethal with the ball. He breached Duckett’s defences, bowling out the batter who scored a ton in the first match of the series.
But it was his wicket of Joe Root, which came in the 11th over of the inning, that was likely the play of the day. The ball looked like it was moving towards the batter’s leg. Root tried to play the ball on the leg side. But after the bounce, the leather straightened and went into the stumps. Akash Deep’s second wicket and second bowled of the day.
Day Four of this second England vs India Test match ended with the English at 72/3, still trailing by 536 runs. To save this match, they either need to save the remaining seven wickets or do the unthinkable and make over 500 runs in one day without their top order. Meanwhile, for India, the equation is simple: take seven wickets and tie the series up.
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