In the fourth and last Test match being played between India and England, both the teams landed on the ground intending to win. England team captain Joe Root won the toss and decided to bat first.
Zak Crawley and Dom Sibley hit the ground to start the innings for England. England team showed a great game in the first 5 overs. It seemed that England batsmen have come to the ground with full preparation in front of the bowlers of Team India.
But then the captain Virat Kohli introduced the 3rd test match hero Akshar Patel. He clean bowled Dom Sibley on the second ball of his first over and sent him to the pavilion.
After that, Patel takes the crucial wicket of Zak Crawley (9 runs in 30 balls). The England third wicket is taken by Mohammad Siraj. He lbw England’s captain Joe Root on a score of 5 runs in 9 balls.
On the first delivery of the 28th over, the fourth wicket of England i.e. Jonny Bairstow fell-down. He became a victim of Mohammad Siraj. India got their fifth wicket as Ben Stock, who scored 55 runs and were lbw out to Washington Sundar.
In this way, half of England’s team return to the pavilion till tea. After tea, no England batsman could stand in front of the Indian bowlers. On the 3rd ball of Ravichandran Ashwin, Ollie Pope was caught out by Suman Gill on the score of 29 runs.
England got the seventh blow as Ben Foakes, who scored 1 run and was caught out by Ajinkya Rahane at the ball of Ravichandran Ashwin. Akshar Patel dismissed Daniel Lawrence on a personal score of 46 runs.
Later, Dom Bess got out at a score 3 runs of the ball of Akshar Patel
The final wicket of the England team is taken by Ravichandran Ashwin and with this, England’s team was able to score just 205 runs in their first innings.
To talk about Indian bowling, Akshar Patel has got 4 wickets, Ravichandran Ashwin has got 3 wickets, Mohammad Siraj has got 2 wickets, and Washington Sundar has got one wicket.
The start of the Indian team to chase 205 runs also not good.
The experienced fast bowler James Anderson dismissed Shubman Gill on a duck in the very first over of the Indian innings. At the end of the day, India has scored 24 runs on the loss of 1 wicket. Rohit Sharma and Cheteshwar Pujara are still on the crease. Rohit is batting on 5 runs, and Pujara is on 15 runs.
Day 1 India Vs England 4th Test Score –
England – 205/10 (75.5 overs)
India – 24/1 (12 overs)
Stumps – India trail by 181 runs.
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