IND vs ENG Live Score, 4th Test Day 1: England’s Joe Root plays a shot on the first day of the fourth Test cricket match between India and England, at the JSCA International Stadium Complex, in Ranchi. (PTI)
IND vs ENG 4th Test Live Score Updates: Joe Root and Ollie Robinson have taken England to 302/7 at stumps on Day 1 at the JSCA International Stadium Complex in Ranchi. Right when it felt like India was going to bowl out England mid-way through the evening session but Robinson chipped in with a handy cameo. Root made a gritty ton to hold the English batting effort together.
Earlier, Akash Deep had a sensational debut in MS Dhoni’s hometown in Ranchi he picked three wickets. Akash Deep knocked over Zak Crawley but he had cut short his celebration as he was overstepped. However, the 27-year-old made a terrific comeback by removing England’s top three. He first got rid of Ben Duckett with a beautiful outswinger. The nip backer and a bold DRS review from captain Rohit Sharma got the better of England No 3 Ollie Pope. Crawley, who survived the earlier no-ball got cleaned up again.
England skipper Ben Stokes won the toss and elected to bat against India.
With inputs from Tanishq V/Pratyush Raj and Sandip G from Ranchi.
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Bumrah has been the new-ball intimidator, the reverse-swing executioner, the middle-over marauder, the soul and voice of the team. To overshadow a group of spinners with a collective haul of 831 demonstrates the insuperable versatility of his craft. (PTI/Reuters)
IND v ENG: Jasprit Bumrah has been India’s lead act so far, now over to R Ashwin and Co in Ranchi to spin their web
At different times during India’s practice session on Wednesday, their trifecta of spinners inspected the pitch for the Ranchi Test. A padded-up Kuldeep Yadav strode in first, swishing his bat, had a couple of quick glances before hurrying to the practice ground, cutely named the Oval. Ravindra Jadeja walked in next, after he had wrapped up his session, peered at the patch with dry grass. Ashwin lingered longer, probing the surface from various angles. In the absence of their best friend in this series, Bumrah, the spinners would hope the pitch would dust up its old affection.
The spinners indeed have played their support cast roles in putting India 2-1 up but Bumrah has played the lead act. He has not only been India’s leading wicket-taker, but also the only bowler who seemed like he could rip through an attack. In a sense the whole talk of India serving up a turner originates from Bumrah’s absence, from the doubt that whether the spinners alone could stop the Bazballers on a benign turner.
Bumrah has been the new-ball intimidator, the reverse-swing executioner, the middle-over marauder, the soul and voice of the team. To overshadow a group of spinners with a collective haul of 831 demonstrates the insuperable versatility of his craft. That India would miss him is an understatement—Vikram Rathour would sigh that they would have played him for every game but for workload management. That England would be relieved is obvious—“it’s great not to see him here,” Ollie Pope would admit. It’s hard to think of a precedent when an Indian fast bowler was a more fearsome proposition at home than their lineage of world-beating spinners. (READ MORE)
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