08/11Result
1st Test, England tour of India at Rajkot, Nov 9-13 2016
Match drawn
Player of the Match
Moeen Ali
Moeen AliEngland
08/11Result
1st Test, England tour of India at Rajkot, Nov 9-13 2016
Match drawn
Player of the Match
Moeen Ali
Moeen AliEngland

12.50pm: So, England have set India 310 in 49 overs, by my count. Could be interesting, should India fancy a dip... There's more chance of Donald Trump becoming president of America the BCCI giving away all its ICC revenue to the Associate nations than England taking ten wickets here, I reckon. But they will hope to at least give India a wobble and take the psychological gains into the second Test.

"Right then....scene set for another Stuart Broad special, eh ???" That would be a good way to celebrate his 100th Test, Aneesh Mohimen

Rahul Bansal is thinking what you're thinking: "I honestly think India should go for the chase... Test the waters and if 3 or 4 wickets fall in the process of chasing they can alter the mode and just hang in for 3 hours to draw the Test... " As mentioned earlier, I don't think this is the easiest surface to score quickly on. Particularly after four-and-a-half days of wear

75.3
W
Ashwin to Cook, OUT, there it is, Cook holes out to long-off and England declare. Ashwin finally pockets a wicket and the players all walk off, Cook was trying to be enterprising and stepped out to hit down the ground, didn't get enough on it and Jadeja pouched a safe catch

AN Cook c Jadeja b Ashwin 130 (299m 243b 13x4 0x6) SR: 53.49

75.2
0
Ashwin to Cook, no run, angled across the lefty from over the wicket, reaches for the drive and misses
75.1
0
Ashwin to Cook, no run, pushed through on leg stump, Cook sweeps and misses

No declaration, though. England's lead is 309

END OF OVER:
75 | 6 Runs | ENG: 260/2

  • Alastair Cook130 (240b)
  • Ben Stokes29 (29b)
  • Umesh Yadav13-2-47-0
  • Ravichandran Ashwin23-4-63-0

If they were to declare now, they would have 50 overs available to bowl...

"Can't blame England here for not declaring," muses Siddhesh. "This pitch is still behaving perfectly and the total isn't beyond reach if you think of it as a typical ODI chase."

74.6
1
Yadav to Cook, 1 run, full and fast, 88mph and wide in the corridor, Cook hacks at it and gets a thick top edge to third man

A draw

2012

Last time a completed Test ended in a draw in Ind - Nagpur, also involving Eng. Ind had won 12 consecutive completed Tests since then excluding v SA, Bangalore (rain).

The chaser

60.81

Kohli's average in the fourth inns of Tests, before this. He has made two centuries and four fifties in 14 innings.

Possible?

6.32

Run rate required for India to win this Test - 310 in 49 overs.

Cook's den

5

No. of Test centuries for Cook in India - most by any visiting batsman in the country. Weekes, Lloyd and Amla made 4 100s here.

Cracking teenager

3

No. of England players to make a 50-plus score before the age of 20, including Haseeb Hameed. Others: Jack Crawford (1906) and Dennis Compton (1937)

Lead for visitors

2012

Last time an overseas team managed to get the first-inns lead in a Test in India, before this - Eng in Nagpur. In 13 Tests since then, Ind gained average lead of 155 runs.

Ashwin v England

5

No. of scores of 40 or more for Ashwin against England, including this - most for him against any team. He has 4 40+ scores against WI.

Rare dismissal

2002

Last time an Ind batsman was out hit wicket in Tests, before Kohli - VVS Laxman in Antigua. Kohli is the second Ind captain after L Amarnath to be out in this fashion.

Task to improve

20.12

Kohli's ave vs Eng, before this - his lowest against any team playing more than one Test. He had made 188 at 31.33 vs Eng in 2012-13 and 134 at 13.40 in Eng 2014.

Vijay gets going

16

No. of consecutive innings without a century for Vijay, before this. His last hundred was 150 against Bangladesh in Fatullah.

Pujara's third

3

No. of Test centuries for Pujara vs Eng - the most for him against any opposition. He had hit 206* and 135 in the 2012-13 series before making another in this inns.