India Vs England 4th Test Match Day 04

Summary of Day 4 Highlights: A series win for India after a 3-1 victory over England, Gill-Jurel chased the ball to steer their side to victory.

Day four highlights India vs. England at Ranchi, where they won by five wickets in the fourth test match that helped them secure their 17th straight series victory at home and now have a lead of 3-1 against England in this five-match series, which concludes with the game played in Dharamsala on March 7th.

India vs. England 4th Test Day 4 Highlights: On Monday, India kept calm and beat England by five wickets in their fourth-day test match at Ranchi for them to win seventeen straight home series. They also have an unassailable lead of three-one (3-1) in the five-test match series ahead of the fifth and final one scheduled for March at Dharamsala.

They started on day two needing another fifty-two runs without any loss but later had few near misses before getting to targetted192 runs during afternoon play.

India was able to get home because of a seventh-wicket partnership between Shubman Gill and Dhruv Jurel equals 72 runs, all unbeaten, after the middle-order was dismantled. Rohit Sharma played a critical fifty in the morning session, contributing 55 off 81, with an opening stand of 84 runs alongside Yashasvi Jaiswal.

With two hours gone in the second hour after bright resumption on 40 without loss requiring another 152, Bashir and Hartley sent some alarming signals to India, who resisted the temptation to start positively, as they had done earlier by starting on time. Bashir once again lived up to his billing as a world-beater when he claimed three more scalps following his five-for against India in the first innings.

Stokes believed that success would be achieved by winning just one Test match on this tour. England did that at their first attempt in Hyderabad. The three subsequent Tests in which India responded affirmatively will buttress his point. However, he appeared quite desperate after a fluctuating fourth Test in Ranchi.

Honestly, looks like deja vu from the last ten years. So, a first defeat for Ben Stokes and Brendon McCullum’s England in eight series doesn’t sound too bad.