🏏India tour of England: Eng vs India, 4th Test. July 23-27, Day 5 - Page 43

Gautam Sharma: "An important stat, England bowled around 250 overs vs India around 160 in addition to the rest Indian bowlers get for last 2 days."

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Ganesh: "Long live Test Cricket! What a game! "

15 overs remain in the day, so we are at the start of the last hour. They can call it off now if both teams agree. Stokes says to the umpires that England are done. Jadeja and Sundar seem like they want to continue batting. Stokes is not pleased. Both batters in sight of their hundreds ... India's chance to put a few more overs in England's legs. The draw is nearly secure ...

England are not happy that India want to continue batting ... "How long do you need, an hour?" I hear one of the england players saying ... Stokes and the England players are going at the Indian batters now for staying on. This is getting quite heated now. According to the rules, though, we will continue because one team wants to continue playing ...

Stokes said to Jadeja: "you want to get a Test hundred against Harry Brook?" during that previous exchange. It all began when Stokes went to shake Jadeja's hand at the start of the last hour and Jadeja did not want to ...

Only twice have India batted out more overs in the third innings to save a Test after conceding a first innings lead of 300-plus:

476/4 in 180 overs vs NZ, Napier, 2009

318/4 in 148 overs vs ENG, Lord’s, 1979

400-plus team totals after losing first two wickets without a run on board

451/8d - IND vs WI, Chennai, 1983

443/7d - WI vs IND, Kanpur, 1958

425/4 - IND vs ENG, Old Trafford, 2025

This is the first time India had three individual hundreds in the third or fourth innings of a Test match

Shubman Gill | India captain: Extremely pleased with the batting effort. Past couple of days we were put under tremendous pressure. It's all about taking the wicket out of the equation. Day 5 wicket, something is happening, every ball is an event. Wanted to take it ball by ball and take it deep, which is what we spoke about. We thought they deserved a century there (about the decision to not shake hands). Every match going till the last session on the last day. Plenty of learnings. Has taught us a lot as a group. Doesn't matter how many runs you've scored in the past. Every time you walk wearing the whites of the country, there are some jitters. That tells how much I care playing for the country. In the first innings, we did post a good total. But a lot of our batters did get set. Important on these wickets for set batters to go deep. Unfortunately it didn't happen. But pleased with the way we were able to do that in the second innings. Will have to wait and see (about Bumrah). As long as we're winning the match (at the Oval), don't care about the toss.

Stokes | POTM and England captain: I think when you have a good game as an allrounder, you assess by how that goes by the result at the end of the game. Will give it all back if we would've got the result. Asked the guys up there to run through a brick wall for the team and I'll do the same. Bowling, being on the field, it is tough work.. Pretty sore (his body). Obviously have got through a fair amount of overs. Everything starts creeping up to you. As the game progressed, the wicket sort of became easier to bat on. There was variable bounce for the right-handers, but not much for the left-handers. Heapload of credit to the way Washington and Jadeja played there. Duckett-Crawley partnership was crucial in the first innings to set the platform. Has been a back-and-forth series so far. Real high quality. It's one of those moments where you feel this is where the game will be broken open. The quality that India have, they were going to be hard to dislodge and they proved that. We threw everything at them and they were able to live up to the pressure of the final day. All the hard work was done by India. Didn't want to risk my fast bowlers with any injuries towards the end. Dawson bowled a lot of overs too. Even before this Test, there were conversations around how much effort and energy have gone into the bowling department. Bowlers will be assessed ovet the next couple of days.

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