India vs England Highlights 2nd Test Day 4, IND vs ENG: Bumrah finishes the match, IND beat ENG by 106 runs

India vs England Live Score 2nd Test Day 4, IND vs ENG: Pope sweeps Axar off the fourth ball of that over and then the bowler drifts on to his pads. Bread and butter stuff for Pope as he glances it fine for another boundary. The last ball is a dot and Axar has conceded 13 runs in that over. There is the effect of the roller for some time though and so India probably have to somehow see this period through without letting the batter get on top off them the way they are at the moment. Crawley on 51 off 84, Pope on 18 off 15.

IND vs ENG Live Score: England 125/2 in 26 overs, need 274 to win

India vs England Live Score 2nd Test Day 4, IND vs ENG: Excellent shot, just the perfect way to bring up the half-century. He shimmies down the wicket to the second ball of Axar's over and then lofts the ball back over the bowler's head. 50 in 83 balls.

India vs England Live Score 2nd Test Day 4, IND vs ENG: Bumrah bowled five overs for just 14 runs. His spell has ended now and Ashwin has been brought in. Rohit conserving Bumrah, he will be required once the ball gets older. Ashwin is three wickets away from 500.

IND vs ENG Live Score: England 109/2 in 24 overs, need 290 to win

India vs England Live Score 2nd Test Day 4, IND vs ENG: Just the fourth ball he has faced this day and Pope brings out the revers sweep. Full outside off from Axar for the third ball of the 24th, Pope connects perfectly and sends it past slip.

India vs England Live Score 2nd Test Day 4, IND vs ENG: Crawley continuing to leave jaws on the floor early on Day 4. Fifth ball from Bumrah is over 138kph and comes into him as well, Crawley whips it off his hip and sends it through mid-on. A dot ball after that and Crawley has raced to 45 off 80, Pope on four off one.

IND vs ENG Live Score: England 105/2 in 23 overs, need 294 to win

India vs England Live Score 2nd Test Day 4, IND vs ENG: Axar ends up giving Pope a nice, slow half-volley to start off with, the England vice-captain dispatches that through covers for four. Axar could've done better there.

IND vs ENG Live Score: England 99/2 in 22 overs

India vs England Live Score 2nd Test Day 4, IND vs ENG: There is the first blood and India would be very happy to see the back of Rehan Ahmed. He was proving to be an extremely dangerous customer. Rehan stays back seeing the flattish trajectory from Axar but the ball goes under the bat and takes the pads. India appeal, the umpire raises his finger and Rehan walks off without even considering DRS.

Rehan lbw b Axar 23 (31)

IND vs ENG Live Score: England 95/2 in 21.5 overs

India vs England Live Score 2nd Test Day 4, IND vs ENG: The Indian captain seems to have got a feather of a touch on it at first slip and so this might go down as a dropped catch. It would be quite unfair if it does but this is encouraging for Axar. Second ball off the 22nd turns, takes Rehan's outside edge and darts just out of reach for the diving Rohit at first slip. It goes to the boundary, just to rub some salt into India's wounds.

India vs England Live Score 2nd Test Day 4, IND vs ENG: Oh that is just the most wonderful on drives you will get to see. Bumrah overpitches for the third delivery, Crawley presents the full face of the bat to him.

IND vs ENG Live Score: England 91/1

India vs England Live Score 2nd Test Day 4, IND vs ENG: Bumrah looks for the leg stump yorker first ball of the 21st, he misses it by centimetres and it beats Bharat as well.

IND vs ENG Live Score: England 87/1

India vs England Live Score 2nd Test Day 4, IND vs ENG: For now at least. Bumrah got an edge off Rehan off the first ball itself but it didn't carry to gully. In fact, Shreyas Iyer did a very good job there, diving to his left and stopping the ball from reaching the boundary. He is then beaten off the third ball, then the fourth nips in and hits him on the pad. Rehan then just about avoids edging the fourth ball that darted down leg side and then he tucks in behind the last ball, defending it back to the bowler. Second maiden from Bumrah and still India have conceded 15 already today.

IND vs ENG Live Score: England 83/1

India vs England Live Score 2nd Test Day 4, IND vs ENG: This time, Rehan connects perfectly. Second ball is a half-volley from Axar, Rehan drives it wonderfully through covers. He gets off strike next ball and Crawley blocks out the rest which means Rehan will face Bumrah next over. He is on 19 off 16, Crawley on 34 off 66.

IND vs ENG Live Score: England 82/1, need 317 to win.

India vs England Live Score 2nd Test Day 4, IND vs ENG: Miscue once again but the ball goes off the inside edge of the bat and beats mid-on to the boundary. Rehan Ahmed following his instructions dutifuly.

India vs England Live Score 2nd Test Day 4, IND vs ENG: Crawley has been trying not to drive all along against Bumrah but the latter sends the last ball of the 17th a tad bit too full. Crawley doesn't hesitate here, brings out the cover drive and the ball darts to the boundary for the first time today. He moves to 34 off 63, Rehan at the other end on 10 off 13.

IND vs ENG Live Score: England 73/1

India vs England Live Score 2nd Test Day 4, IND vs ENG: Bumrah bowled a maiden to start out with. Axar bowls the second over of the day, and the 16th of the innings and Rehan tries to smash the first ball he faces over mid-on. It was miscued but the ball doesn't carry to the fielder there.

India vs England Live Score 2nd Test Day 4, IND vs ENG: Shubman Gill has hurt his right index finger and won't be taking the field today. That is a big blow for India, Gill has been extremely reliable in the slip cordon.

India vs England Live Score 2nd Test Day 4, IND vs ENG: Ok then, enough chatter, time for what promises to be an exciting first hour of Day 4. Jasprit Bumrah has the ball in his hands. Zak Crawley has the strike, Rehan Ahmed at the other end.

India vs England Live Score, 2nd Test Match Day 4, IND vs ENG: Dinesh Karthik and Eoin Morgan speak about where the pitch stands ahead of the fourth day. Seen a couple of balls with variable bounce. That is because there are a few huge cracks near the middle of the pitch. There are a few cracks fuller to the right hander as well, right under the batter’s eyes. Those will interest the spinners. England will look to trouble India with their sweeps and reverse sweeps, they reckon.

India vs England Live Score, 2nd Test Match Day 4, IND vs ENG: Less than half an hour to go for the start of play and so it is the perfect time for us to do a little recap. England are 67/1, needing 332 runs to win after India set them a record target of 399. Opener Zak Crawley is on 29 off 50 balls, nightwatchman Rehan Ahmed with him on nine off eight. Ben Duckett fell to Ravichandran Ashwin yesterday having scored 28 in 27 balls.

India vs England Live Score, 2nd Test Match Day 4, IND vs ENG: Shubman Gill felt that England will find it tough to chase down a record 399, even though they had earlier chased down 378 against India rather comfortably in Edgbaston in 2022. “As the game goes on, it will have variable bounce as we saw today. It is not turning as much as the other pitches but it is definitely doing something. It is not easy to score runs here. England are never out of the game. I think this is a different kind of wicket than what we played at Edgbaston. Having said that, the morning session will be very important for us as we have seen there is always a bit of moisture coming at the start of the day. That will be the key for us,” said Gill.

India vs England Live Score, 2nd Test Match Day 4, IND vs ENG: Gill managed to overturn an LBW call that went against him when he was on four yesterday. He knew very little about that though with his partner Shreyas Iyer eventually convincing him to ask for the DRS. It had looked plumb to the naked eye but then replays showed a spike right when the ball was between bat and pad. In the end, it was decided that there was a faint edge and Gill survived. He later said that he didn't feel the inside edge at all.

India vs England Live Score, 2nd Test Match Day 4, IND vs ENG: England batting great and former captain Alastair Cook was all praise for Gill. Cook says that Gill has made sure that he cannot be dropped even if KL Rahul and Virat Kohli return for the next Test. "What we’ve seen today is just how talented he is, the shots he has, and we’re definitely going to see him the rest of this series. He was out of form, hadn’t scored many runs, and there’s Rahul and Kohli to come back into the side, but he’s made sure now that the selectors can’t ignore him," he said on TNT Sports.

India vs England Live Score, 2nd Test Match Day 4, IND vs ENG: The nightwatchman is usually sent out to guard the wicket and keep it warm for a mainstream batter the next day. Not in Bazball. Rehan Ahmed had been sent out with the cricketing equivalent of what Captain America told the Hulk to do before the start of the climactic battle in The Avengers (the first one). And smash he did. Rehan faced eight balls and two of them were sent to the boundary. He swung at nearly all of them, connecting with the third last and last deliveries of the day off Axar Patel. One can expect more of the same from him for whatever amount of time he spends at the crease today. This was a task that Stuart Broad was trusted in and the former pacer had started calling himself the ‘nighthawk’ as opposed to the more humble nightwatchman. Broad also annointed Rehan as his successor to the role when the young spinner hit a few lusty blows in Pakistan last year.

India vs England Live Score, 2nd Test Match Day 4, IND vs ENG: India's two pacers could not be more different in every way. Unfortunately for them, that also includes results. Jasprit Bumrah is completely on song and was as difficult for the England batters to deal with as ever on Day 3. In the five overs he bowled, he conceded just nine runs. On the other hand, Mukesh Kumar got belted for 19 in the two overs he bowled. In the first innings, Bumrah had figures of 6/45 in 15.5 overs. Mukesh returned 0/44 in seven. It is unfair to expect anyone to be even close to being as good as Bumrah but the seemingly utter lack of control at the other end from Mukesh has led to a lot of people on social media wistfully remembering Ishant Sharma and Umesh Yadav brilliantly backing up Bumrah and Mohammed Shami.

India vs England Live Score, 2nd Test Match Day 4, IND vs ENG: Touring sides don't often manage to pull off a big run chase in India. In fact, of the five highest sucesfull highest run chases in India, four belong to the hosts themselves. The only team that stands out? Viv Richards' world beating West Indies in November 1987 in Delhi. The great man himself smashed an unbeaten 109 in 111 balls in the second innings to help the West Indies chase down a target of 276. Above that is India's succesfull chase of 387 against England in Chennai in 2008, in which Virender Sehwag scored 83 in 68 balls after which Sachin Tendulkar and Yuvraj Singh saw India home, scoring 103* and 85* respectively.

India vs England Live Score, 2nd Test Match Day 4, IND vs ENG: Joe Root sustained the injury during the 18th over of India’s second innings when he tried to catch an edge from Shubman Gill in the slips. Facing a length ball on off from spinner Tom Hartley, Gill went forward and played with hard hands, only to get a thick edge which flew towards the left of Root in the slip cordon. He managed to get a finger to the ball but could not complete the catch and the ball went for a boundary. "Joe Root sustained an external blow to his right little finger, attempting a slip catch in the first session of D3. The England medical team will keep him off the field for the time being to treat and ice," England team management said in an update. Anderson said that the reason why Root didn't return to the field is because the team didn't want to risk an external blow.

India vs England Live Score, 2nd Test Match Day 4, IND vs ENG: This is what the great man had to say about what he did on Day 3. "I'm obviously delighted with the five wickets (in the match) but I think I'm more pleased with the fact I got through 35 overs in three days," said Anderson, who played his first Test in 2003. "I felt strong when I was doing it as well. All that work I was doing in the last few months has really paid off, and that's probably the most satisfying thing for me."

India vs England Live Score, 2nd Test Match Day 4, IND vs ENG: By the age of 41, great fast bowlers can be seen doing the rounds of commentary boxes studios, talking about the current game or being interviewed about their own great careers. Not James Anderson. At 41, he is still out there, playing Test cricket for England. And he is no spectator. Anderson was England's joint highest wicket taker in the first innings and on Day 3, he sent back a dangerous-looking Rohit Sharma and the first innings double centurion Yashasvi Jaiswal. That took his career tally to 695 and he is now one five-wicket haul away from becoming the third bowler after Shane Warne and Muttiah Muralitharan, and the first pacer ever, to get to 700 Test wickets.

India vs England Live Score, 2nd Test Match Day 4, IND vs ENG: If England do pull this off, this will be the fifth highest succesfull run chase of all time in Test history, surpassing the 395 that the West Indies chased against Bangladesh in 2021. They would be four runs behind India's miraculous chase of 404 that was orchstrated by Sunil Gavaskar and Gundappa Viswanath against the almighty West Indies in 1976, five runs behind the 404 that Australia chased against England in 1948 thanks to Don Bradman and Arthur Morris, 15 runs behing the 414 that AB de Villiers powered South Africa to against Australia at the WACA in 2008 and 19 behind the 418 that the West Indies chased down against Steve Waugh's world beating Australia in 2003 thanks to Shivnarine Chanderpaul and Ramnaresh Sarwan. Yes, this chase is in some elite company.

India vs England Live Score, 2nd Test Match Day 4, IND vs ENG: Anderson spoke more about how England plan to approach this chase in the post-match press conference. "I know there are 180 overs left in the game, but we will try to do it in 60 or 70. That's the way we play." Wowza

India vs England Live Score, 2nd Test Match Day 4, IND vs ENG: Like that celebration, Gill kept his explanation simple as well in the post-match press conference. “It felt good. I just thought the job was not done for the team. So, that's why it was a little mellowed celebration,” he said.

India vs England Live Score, 2nd Test Match Day 4, IND vs ENG: Shubman Gill finally brought an end to his string of low scores with a rather majestic second innings century in Visakhapatnam. Despite Yashasvi Jaiswal scoring a double century and Jasprit Bumrah bringing the world to a halt with his 6-wicket haul, one could argue that it is because of Gill's 104 off 147 balls that India are so far ahead in this match but there was no big celebration from the No.3 batter after he got to the three-figure mark. There was only a look of relief on his face as he slowly took off his helmet and looked to the sky.

India vs England Live Score, 2nd Test Match Day 4, IND vs ENG: James Anderson revealed what Brendon McCullum told the England players at the end of play on Day 2 and well, you shouldn't be surprised really. "We got sat down by the coach [Brendon McCullum] last night and he said, 'if India get 600 ahead, we're going to try and chase it down'. And that's exactly what we're going to try and do," he said.

India vs England Live Score, 2nd Test Match Day 4, IND vs ENG: If England do pull off this bit of madness today, they will blow past their own highest ever successful run chase. Interestingly, though, this record was rewritten twice in the last five years and the last time it happened was in the Bazball era against India, when Joe Root and Jonny Bairstow's centuries made a mockery of a target of 378 in the postponed fifth Test at Edgbaston in 2022. The instance before that was technically before the Bazball era although one could say it was a preview of that. You know which one that is. The Ashes, Headingley, Ben Stokes 135*, Jack Leach 1*, Tim Paine fumbling a review, Nathan Lyon fumbling the ball. Yes, that one.

India vs England Live Score, 2nd Test Match Day 4, IND vs ENG: India: Yashasvi Jaiswal, Rohit Sharma(c), Shubman Gill, Shreyas Iyer, Rajat Patidar, Srikar Bharat(w), Ravichandran Ashwin, Axar Patel, Kuldeep Yadav, Jasprit Bumrah, Mukesh Kumar

England: Zak Crawley, Ben Duckett, Ollie Pope, Joe Root, Jonny Bairstow, Ben Stokes(c), Ben Foakes(w), Rehan Ahmed, Tom Hartley, Shoaib Bashir, James Anderson

India vs England Live Score, 2nd Test Match Day 4, IND vs ENG: Well this is it, England start the day needing 332 more runs to win, having finished Day 3 on 67/1, while India need nine wickets. In normal Test match circumstances, the batting side's first priority in this situation would be to somehow survive the first two sessions, then survive the third session, and then think about how to survive Day 5. But this England side are going to make a red-hot dash at the target. James Anderson was talking about head coach Brendon McCullum saying that they are going to take a shot at any target even if it is over 600 and that they are going to try and chase down 399 in 60 or 70 overs even though they have 180 in hand. The reputation they have built under Ben Stokes and McCullum is such that even the most hardened skeptic of the Bazball method would know that they could actually pull this off if India let their guards down. So today, it's either going to be a lot of fours and sixes, or a lot of wickets, or, best case scenario, both. In short, it's going to be fun. And don't you love it when Test cricket is fun.