India vs England 5th Test, Day 4 Highlights: England need 119 to win as Root, Bairstow pile on runs

England's highest successful run chase in Test cricket is 359. You might remember that match if you watched 2019 Ashes, Ben Stokes cuts away for four and all that. India's lead at the moment stands at 361 so they will have to go well past their record chase to win this now. 

Four wickets for England in that session but India's lead has gone past a healthy 350 as well so quite difficult to identify a clear winner in this session. 

India's lead goes to 350 with a glorious cut shot through backward point. Shami seems to be the most assured of all the batters who have turned out for India today. 

No real control from Jadeja and the ball loops over the head of James Anderson at cover. He goes a step back and takes a small leap with an outstretched hand. The ball hits it and falls, he seems to get another touch on it on the way down and ultimately can't hold on to it. 

Short from Pott, Thakur goes for the pull and holes out in the deep. That's the second wicket this morning that has fallen off a short delivery and it is what England are using judiciously this morning. 

Thakur c Crawley b Potts 4 (26), India 207/7, lead by 340 runs

Potts has been getting the ball to rear up. The fourth delivery of his over gets Thakur raising his hands and fending it off the gloves.  The next one gets him on the helmet and the physio has to come out for that one. Potts and a couple of other England players come straight up to Thakur to check on him right after he was hit. 

None of the slap-bang approach that Pant and Iyer, and even Pujara, had adopted. India would want their lead to be somewhere around 400 and they all of a sudden have just four wickets left. Thakur and Jadeja are hence taking their time. Leach and Potts continue to alternate. 

Leach wins the battle this time. Pant tries to reverse sweep Leach, gets an edge to it and Root takes a good reactionary catch at slip. Live by the sword and you might just die by it and Pant does not survive to tell the tale this time. 

Pant c Root b Leach 57 (86), India 198/6, lead by 330

Two of the most in-form batters India have got currently are back together. 

Jack Leach brought in which means Pant gets into the mood of taking rabits out of his helmet. Leach bowls it well wide outside off and Pant leans all the way out and sweeps it through backward square leg. He falls over after completing the shot, which is something you would expect the likes of Pant and Bumrah to do nowadays in Test cricket

Pretty much a sitting duck is Iyer against the short ball. Stokes had just placed Anderson at midwicket, Iyer pulls Potts's short delivery straight into his hands. That is a bad shot and it is pretty clear that Iyer needs to do something about a weakness that is this obvious. Brendon McCullum did work with him quite closely at KKR and so it is no surprise that England have done him so easily here. 

Iyer c Anderson b Potts 19(26), India 190/5

What a match he is having. He gets there by hitting a four of course. He tucks it fine off the pads off Broad and raises his bat. This has come in 72 balls. 

Well Iyer making the most of whenever England don't play short and cramp him for room. The first was driven almost on the up off Potts, the next is a dot and then another cover drive off a half volley. He moves to 18 off 20, the partnership between him and Pant is already 25 runs off 32. Just an hour of this would be enough to practically take the game away from England. India lead by 310. 

Tough one but then those do tend to change matches. Edged off Broad and Crawley dives to his left, one hand outstretched. The ball bounces off it and Pant survives.  

Not the best of deliveries from Broad. Short and wide and Iyer slashes hard it. The ball goes up in the air over gully and races to the boundary. India's lead is now 299. 

Almost every delivery that Iyer has got so far has been short and Iyer has not looked way too comfortable with it. He is on five runs for now. 

Short from Anderson, Pant transfers his weight to the backfoot and sends the ball careening through midwicket. He moves to 43 off 67, India are 159/4 and lead by 291. Shreyas Iyer is at the other end and England will know that they need a wicket in double quick time because the longer these two stay, the more India's lead will balloon. 

Broad strikes in his very first over of the day. England abandon the Root ploy, whatever that was meant to achieve, and they have been vindicated. Back of a length and rising on Pujara and he goes for the backfoot punch, as he has done always this morning. But he ends up hitting it straight into the hands of backward point and falls. 

Pujara c Lees b Broad 66 (168), India 153/4, lead by 285.  

Well Pujara is not letting any easy ones go today. He has decided to go for the ones that are short and wide, leave the rest outside off. This one he plays with soft hands and gets it past the slip cordon. 

Quite a puzzling move this from England, choosing to start with Joe Root bowling from one end and Anderson from the other. Perhaps Root has been brought as a way to bait Pant but then, they do have Jack Leach in the squad as well. 

Too full and straight from Anderson and Pujara just clips it past midwicket and the ball races to the boundary. A bit awry there from Anderson, India's lead extends to 272. 

Back of a length from Anderson, Pujara punches it through point for four. Absolutely perfect timing and he moves to 57. 

A late outswinger by Anderson and Pant shoulders it as it goes around fifth stump.

India are 126/3 and lead by 258 runs.

A straight delivery by Anderson and Pujara directs it towards backward square leg for a single. India open their account on Day 4. The previous two deliveries were dot balls.

Cheteshwar Pujara (50*) and Rishabh Pant (30*) to resume batting for India. James Anderson to bowl for England.