India vs England 1st Test Day 4 Highlights: Hartley takes 7 as ENG stun IND in Hyderabad, win by 28 runs
India vs England 1st Test Day 4 Highlights: Tom Hartley may have taken the big blows in the first innings but he is now delivering the big blows. Hartley played a big role in ensuring that England got India down to their last wicket and forced a half an hour extension to the day. Mohammed Siraj and Jasprit Bumrah then put England in a bit of a tricky spot though in that extra period, going for their shots and running tight singles and doubles and reducing the runs India needed to win. The pair ended up scoring 25 runs in 37 balls before Siraj finally fell in the last over of the day to Hartley, thus sealing a famous win for England in Hyderabad. The result gives England a 1-0 lead against all odds in the five-match Test series....Read More
Hartley accounted for the wickets of Yashasvi Jaiswal, Shubman Gill and Rohit Sharma as England sent back the Indian top order within the first 18 overs as India chase a target of 231. India have promoted Axar Patel to No.5 to bring a left-right combination with KL Rahul. The pair saw India through to Tea but were both dismissed soon after resumption of play. Axar fell to Hartley in the very first over of the third session while Rahul later fell to Root. Earlier, Ollie Pope missed out on a well-deserved double-century, falling to Jasprit Bumrah and thus ending the England innings on a score of 420. Pope received handshakes from the Indian players as he walked off after scoring a colossal 196, the fourth highest score by a visiting batter in the second innings in India. His innings helped England post a tricky target of 231 for India to chase.
India vs England Live Score, IND vs ENG 1st Test Day 4: THAT'S THAT! England beat India by 28 runs
India vs England Live Score, IND vs ENG 1st Test Day 4: Oh Siraj jumps out his crease for a heave-ho, misses it entirely and Foakes breaks the stumps. Hartley, fittingly, takes the last wicket and he finishes with a seven-for. This is one of the greatest wins England have enjoyed in a long, long time. They were dead and buried for most of this Test, until they started fighting back with the ball in the first session yesterday. Today they were on the money throughout and the Indians have been humbled in the first Test of this five-match series. How about this for a result. India didn't give up, they fought right till the end. You may say that Siraj didn't need to do that but it is exactly this attitude that put pressure on England in the last half an hour. Today was a wonderful day for Test cricket. England ensure that this series won't feel like yet another formality for the Indians, as Test series tend to do so many times when they are playing at home. Over in Australia, a young West Indies side has given hope for the future of the longest format in the islands that used to rule the sport a few decades ago. Long may this continue. You would be dejected if you are an Indian fan, but maybe, just maybe, after you've calmed down today, you might wake up tomorrow and understand that you have been treated to a classic. That's it from us for this Test, see you in the second one in Visakhapatnam starting on February 2.
India vs England Live Score, IND vs ENG 1st Test Day 4: 25 runs for the last wicket
India vs England Live Score, IND vs ENG 1st Test Day 4: Every single one of those runs have been cheered on as this Hyderabad crowd, who mostly sees SRH play IPL every year, is getting a taste of what an exciting finish looks like in a high-quality Test match. Hartley to bowl the last over of the day. Siraj on strike, can he keep them out?
India vs England Live Score, IND vs ENG 1st Test Day 4: Stokes brings in Wood
India vs England Live Score, IND vs ENG 1st Test Day 4: Siraj and Bumrah's aggression has put England in a slippery place here. On the one hand they would want these two to keep going for those shots and take risky runs as they are all opportunities. However, India now need just 32 runs to win. Stokes brings in Wood now to pummel these tail enders. Three overs left in the day, what a spectacle we have had.
India vs England Live Score, IND vs ENG 1st Test Day 4: FOUR! Siraj gets one away!
India vs England Live Score, IND vs ENG 1st Test Day 4: Well half an hour is enough time to knock off 36 runs you know. Siraj goes for a big slog sweep first ball of Hartley's over. It goes to the midwicket boundary and over the rope. India need 36 to win now, England need a wicket.
India vs England Live Score, IND vs ENG 1st Test Day 4: Siraj swinging away
India vs England Live Score, IND vs ENG 1st Test Day 4: Home favourite Siraj seems determined to get at least one six under his belt today. He gallops dowwn the pitch to the second and third balls of the 65th from Rehan Ahmed. First it goes to backward point off a thick edge. Jasprit Bumrah had run halfway down the track and he had to run all the way back before the throw came in. Then he goes for the same shot and once again, it doesn't carry.
India vs England Live Score, IND vs ENG 1st Test Day 4: GONE! IT'S ASHWIN! IT'S HARTLEY AGAIN!
India vs England Live Score, IND vs ENG 1st Test Day 4: Ashwin jumps out his crease trying a wild heave down the ground. The ball spins away from him, Foakes collects and breaks the stumps. India down to their last wicket.
Ashwin st Foakes b Hartley 28 (84)
IND vs ENG Live Score: India 177/9
India vs England Live Score, IND vs ENG 1st Test Day 4: Stokes takes the extra half an hour!
India vs England Live Score, IND vs ENG 1st Test Day 4: So eight extra overs for England to survive today. The umpire has communicated to the Indian batters. Ashwin on strike, Hartley bowling.
India vs England Live Score, IND vs ENG 1st Test Day 4: Stokes can take an extra half an hour
India vs England Live Score, IND vs ENG 1st Test Day 4: Well, it is going to be the England captain's decision. The lights are on but there is fading golden sunlight on the field alongwith long shadows. Will Stokes choose to go for the kill today?
India vs England Live Score, IND vs ENG 1st Test Day 4: GONE! Bharat knocked over, 5 for Hartley!
India vs England Live Score, IND vs ENG 1st Test Day 4: Oh that is a beauty from Hartley and he gets his fifth. Angled into him and then it turns away sharply past Bharat's bat face. The off stump is rattled.
Bharat b Hartley 28 (59)
IND vs ENG Live Score: India 176/8, need 55 to win
India vs England Live Score, IND vs ENG 1st Test Day 4: FOUR! 50 partnership comes up
India vs England Live Score, IND vs ENG 1st Test Day 4: Leach drags down and Ashwin flays that past deep backward point. That brings up an unbelievable half-century stand between Ashwin and Bharat. India are not giving in today, they are going to force this match to go into a fifth day. India need 58 to win now
India vs England Live Score, IND vs ENG 1st Test Day 4: About 4 overs left in the day
India vs England Live Score, IND vs ENG 1st Test Day 4: This partnership has seen off 118 balls and scored 45 runs. Jack Leach has been brought back and Bharat is on strike
India vs England Live Score, IND vs ENG 1st Test Day 4: FOUR! Bharat goes BANG!
India vs England Live Score, IND vs ENG 1st Test Day 4: Nope, they are not hanging around till Stumps, this is not a Sydney 2021 situation, the target remains within India's grasp. Bharat smashes the third ball down the ground, one bounce four. A single off the last over and Bharat moves to 25 off 55.
IND vs ENG Live Score: India 161/7, need 70 to win
India vs England Live Score, IND vs ENG 1st Test Day 4: Two fours in an over!
India vs England Live Score, IND vs ENG 1st Test Day 4: The Hyderabad crowd has found its voice again. A couple of looseners from Rehan allows Bharat to free his arms and the home crowd has come alive.
IND vs ENG Live Score: India 153/7
India vs England Live Score, IND vs ENG 1st Test Day 4: FOUR!
India vs England Live Score, IND vs ENG 1st Test Day 4: A loosener from Bharat for the third ball of the 57th, those have been rare from England today. It was short and Bharat puts it through the off side field to the boundary
India vs England Live Score, IND vs ENG 1st Test Day 4: India need 89 to win
India vs England Live Score, IND vs ENG 1st Test Day 4: Ashwin and Bharat just soaking it all in. Their priority is to last the day and there is still about half an hour to go for that. Forget the Bazball, we are going to have some good old fashioned, attritional Test cricket.
India vs England Live Score, IND vs ENG 1st Test Day 4: No wickets in the last half an hour
India vs England Live Score, IND vs ENG 1st Test Day 4: And there have been a couple of boundaries and so Ashwin and Bharat providing some resistance. If they can last the entire day then we are in for quite a finish tomorrow. India now need 91 to win.
India vs England Live Score, IND vs ENG 1st Test Day 4: Wood brought in
India vs England Live Score, IND vs ENG 1st Test Day 4: Another short spell for Leach but how effective he is now. It looked like England could be without him for the entirety of the day today, instead he has bowled nine overs and taken a wicket.
India vs England Live Score, IND vs ENG 1st Test Day 4: FOUR! A boundary at last for India
India vs England Live Score, IND vs ENG 1st Test Day 4: Short from Leach, spins away outside off. Ashwin gets to his backfoot and lashes it to the cover boundary. India now need 100 runs to win.
IND vs ENG Live Score: India 131/7
India vs England Live Score, IND vs ENG 1st Test Day 4: 44 overs done
India vs England Live Score, IND vs ENG 1st Test Day 4: Bon Jovi's 'Livin' on a prayer' is among the songs that the Barmy Army has been belting in this Test match. Well, prayers are maybe something that can help India out now. They are down to their last batting pair despite batting till No.9 and and need 108 runs to win. England need three wickets. It is KS Bharat and R Ashwin who are out there now.
IND vs ENG Live Score: India 123/7, need 108 to win
India vs England Live Score, IND vs ENG 1st Test Day 4: OUT! Now Iyer falls
India vs England Live Score, IND vs ENG 1st Test Day 4: Jack Leach brought back and instant impact! Full, angling into Iyer. The batter pushes it at it just as it breaks away from him and Root takes the catch at slip. India are crumbling now.
Iyer c Root b Leach 13 (31)
IND vs ENG Live Score: India 119/7 in 40.2 overs
India vs England Live Score, IND vs ENG 1st Test Day 4: OUT! A wicket from nowhere
India vs England Live Score, IND vs ENG 1st Test Day 4: Oh what an effort that is from Ben Stokes. Root with a full toss outside off, Jadeja pushes to mid-on and sets off. Stokes is the man there, he dives and throws at then non-striker's end while still being completely off balance. The ball smashes the stumps and Jadeja is gone. That is superhuman from the England captain.
Jadeja run out (Stokes) 2 (20)
IND vs ENG Live Score: India 119/6 in 38.1 overs
India vs England Live Score, IND vs ENG 1st Test Day 4: 36 overs done, India living on the edge
India vs England Live Score, IND vs ENG 1st Test Day 4: The crowd is cheering every run being scored now, regardless of how they come. England need five wickets to win, India need 119 runs. It is quite clear now that the hosts are in slightly more trouble at the moment. Jadeja out there now with Shreyas Iyer.
IND vs ENG Live Score: India 112/5 in 36 overs, need 119 to win
India vs England Live Score, IND vs ENG 1st Test Day 4: OUT! IT'S RAHUL!
India vs England Live Score, IND vs ENG 1st Test Day 4: Joe Root gets what could be the most important wicket of the hour, the one wicket England wanted as soon as possible. Big shout for LBW against Rahul and the umpire gives it. Rahul takes the review, it is three reds and he has to go. India have lost their top five and are still 124 runs away.
Rahul lbw b Root 22 (48)
IND vs ENG Live Score: India 107/5
India vs England Live Score, IND vs ENG 1st Test Day 4: GONE! Four for Hartley!
India vs England Live Score, IND vs ENG 1st Test Day 4: Axar falls in the very first over of the session. Tom Hartley's turnaround is the kind that wins teams Test matches and England are chipping away here. This is poor from Axar, a very, very soft dismissal. Half-hearted drive by Axar and it ends up being the simplest of catches for the bowler.
Axar c & b Hartley 17 (42)
IND vs ENG Live Score: India 95/4 in 30 overs
India vs England Live Score, IND vs ENG 1st Test Day 4: And the players return
India vs England Live Score, IND vs ENG 1st Test Day 4: Axar and Rahul return, Hartley to bowl the first over after Tea. This session will be decisive.
India vs England Live Score, IND vs ENG 1st Test Day 4: Time for Tea, India 95/3 in 29 overs
India vs England Live Score, IND vs ENG 1st Test Day 4: Rahul and Axar, and Rohit to a certain extent, have helped India pull this session a little towards themselves and so this might go down as a shared one. But this also means that India have taken a major step towards victory. They are now 136 runs away from victory.
India vs England Live Score, IND vs ENG 1st Test Day 4: BACK TO BACK FOURS!
India vs England Live Score, IND vs ENG 1st Test Day 4: This time it is Axar Patel. The third ball of the 27th from Rehan Ahmed is full and Axar drills it past mid-off. Then back to back fours off the last two balls of the over. Axar is on 17 off 34, Rahul is on 20 off 33. This partnership starting to look good now.
India vs England Live Score, IND vs ENG 1st Test Day 4: Now Wood comes in
India vs England Live Score, IND vs ENG 1st Test Day 4: Stokes shuffling his pack a bit here. Leached bowled the 21st over, Root bowled the 22nd, Hartley the 23rd and now Wood brought in for the 24th.
IND vs ENG Live Score: India 72/3 in 23 overs
India vs England Live Score, IND vs ENG 1st Test Day 4: India promote Axar
India vs England Live Score, IND vs ENG 1st Test Day 4: Axar is out there with KL Rahul now. This might be more to make Stokes take off one of his left arm spinners than anything else, India don't look like they are in the mood to try fancy things like pinch-hitters today. He has faced 10 balls so far and scored a run, Rahul on seven off 15. England seem to have obliged by taking off Hartley for Root, although it could also be a case of the former changing ends.
India vs England Live Score, IND vs ENG 1st Test Day 4: OUT! Rohit goes, huge wicket for ENG
India vs England Live Score, IND vs ENG 1st Test Day 4: Tom Hartley was taking the blows in the first innings, he is now delivering the big blows in the second. Big appeal for LBW, umpire raises his finger. Rohit takes a review after considering it for a second. Ball tracking shows that the ball would have hit the top of middle and leg.
Rohit lbw b Hartley 39 (58)
IND vs ENG Live Score: India 63/3 in 18 overs
India vs England Live Score, IND vs ENG 1st Test Day 4: BACK TO BACK FOURS!
India vs England Live Score, IND vs ENG 1st Test Day 4: Rohit goes for the reverse sweep second ball of the 17th from Leach and it goes through the crowded off side to the boundary. Then the next ball is sent to short backward point. A single off the last ball of that over and Rohit is 39 off 53, Rahul on six off 12.
IND vs ENG Live Score: India 63/2 in 17 overs, need 168 to win
India vs England Live Score, IND vs ENG 1st Test Day 4: FOUR! 50 up for India
India vs England Live Score, IND vs ENG 1st Test Day 4: Full from Hartley last ball of the 16th, Rohit Sharma sweeps past backward square leg to the boundary. He is on 30 off 48, Rahul on five off 11.
IND vs ENG Live Score: India 53/2 in 16 overs
India vs England Live Score, IND vs ENG 1st Test Day 4: Meanwhile in Australia
India vs England Live Score, IND vs ENG 1st Test Day 4: There is absolutely no way one can ignore this result. The West Indies have beat Australia in a Test match in Australia for the first time since 1997. They have won a Test match against Australia for the first time since 2003 and they have avoided a series defeat to Australia in the longest format since 1998/99. And moreover, they have done all this at the Gabba, where Viv Richards' world beaters were the last side to have beaten Australia in a Test match for over three decades before India breached the fortress in 2021. The fast bowler Shamar Joseph, who made his debut in the first Test of this series, took six wickets in a 10-over spell earlier today despite having broken his toe while batting. He now took the last Australian wicket as well to seal the historic win. Steve Smith batted through the innings and was stranded at the non-striker's end on 91 off 146 as Josh Hazlewood's off pole was uprooted. Unbelievable stuff.
India vs England Live Score, IND vs ENG 1st Test Day 4: FOUR!
India vs England Live Score, IND vs ENG 1st Test Day 4: Hartley drags the third ball of the 14th short and Rahul gets to his backfoot. The ball is smashed to Crawley's left but the fielder thought it is going to his right and ends up rooted to the spot as the ball whistled to the boundary. This has happened quite a few times in this Test, England fielders losing sight of the ball.
IND vs ENG Live Score: India 48/2 in 14 overs, need 183 to win
India vs England Live Score, IND vs ENG 1st Test Day 4: GONE! Hartley again!
India vs England Live Score, IND vs ENG 1st Test Day 4: Oh it's Pope again. Keep him away from this game if you can. Shubman Gill falls for a duck. Tossed up on off, Gill takes a prod, inside edge and Pope makes a flash grab.
Gill c Pope b Hartley 0 (2)
IND vs ENG Live Score: India 42/2 in 12 overs
India vs England Live Score, IND vs ENG 1st Test Day 4: GONE! Jaiswal falls
India vs England Live Score, IND vs ENG 1st Test Day 4: Caught at short leg! Hartley gets the breakthrough for England.
Jaiswal c Pope b Hartley 15 (35)
IND vs ENG Live Score: India 42/1 in 11.4 overs
India vs England Live Score, IND vs ENG 1st Test Day 4: FOUR!
India vs England Live Score, IND vs ENG 1st Test Day 4: Low full toss from Root for the fifth ball of the ninth. Rohit smashes it past mid-off to the boundary.
IND vs ENG Live Score: India 32/0 in 9 overs
India vs England Live Score, IND vs ENG 1st Test Day 4: 7 overs gone
India vs England Live Score, IND vs ENG 1st Test Day 4: Jaiswal is on seven off 17, Rohit on 17 off 25. India's deficit has reduced to 205 and this is a good steady start from the openers, none of the wide eyed frenzy that was there in the first innings. They are going at a run rate of 3.57 at the moment.
IND vs ENG Live Score: India 25/0 in 7 overs
India vs England Live Score, IND vs ENG 1st Test Day 4: FOUR! Jaiswal's first boundary of the innings
India vs England Live Score, IND vs ENG 1st Test Day 4: Third ball of the fifth from Joe Root is sliding down the leg side. Jaiswal goes for a big sweep past fine leg. Then a single and he gets off the mark. A much more measured start this time around from Jaiswal.
India vs England Live Score, IND vs ENG 1st Test Day 4: DROPPED AND FOUR!
India vs England Live Score, IND vs ENG 1st Test Day 4: How much will this cost England! Wood draws Rohit's outside edge off the fourth ball, it dips heavily on Crawley at second slip but it does carry. Crawley dives forward and seems to miss it entirely, the ball goes through him and to the boundary behind. The batters run a leg bye off the next ball and Rohit is on 9 off 8, Jaiswal yet to get off the mark.
IND vs ENG Live Score: India 10/0, need 221 to win
India vs England Live Score, IND vs ENG 1st Test Day 4: FOUR!
India vs England Live Score, IND vs ENG 1st Test Day 4: Short from Wood for the first ball, Rohit steers it past the empty deep third man position.
India vs England Live Score, IND vs ENG 1st Test Day 4: A run off the first over
India vs England Live Score, IND vs ENG 1st Test Day 4: Rohit got off the strike off the third ball and Jaiswal inside-edged the fifth ball onto his own pads. The ball fell dangerously close to the wickets after that. England are without Jack Leach for this innings it seems, he isn't fielding at the moment at least. Mark Wood is sharing the new ball with Root.
India vs England Live Score, IND vs ENG 1st Test Day 4: The players return
India vs England Live Score, IND vs ENG 1st Test Day 4: Right, the Indian openers made a T20 start to their first innings, will they go a different route this time? There are five sessions left in this session, India need 231 runs to win, England need 10 wickets. Rohit Sharma facing up, Yashasvi Jaiswal at the other end, Joe Root to open England's bowling.
India vs England Live Score, IND vs ENG 1st Test Day 4: Some Pope records
India vs England Live Score, IND vs ENG 1st Test Day 4: Well how about this to start with. Ollie Pope had scored 154 runs at an average of 17.11 in nine previous in India. He scored 196 runs in this innings alone. It is the second highest first innings deficit surpassed by an England batter in Test cricket, seventh overall. It is also the fourth highest score in the second innings of a Test match in India by a visiting batter. The man just above him is Garry Sobers who had scored 198 for the West Indies all the way back in 1958, his coach Brendon McCullum is above him having scored 225 at this ground in 2010. Andy Flower's unbeaten 232 in Nagpur in 2000 remains the highest.
India vs England Live Score, IND vs ENG 1st Test Day 4: Lunch has been taken
India vs England Live Score, IND vs ENG 1st Test Day 4: Meanwhile, West Indies are really doing it. They have not beaten Australia in a Test match since 2003 and have not won a Test match in Australia since 1996/97. Now Australia need 32 to win in the second Test at the Gabba, West Indies need two wickets. The worry fior the visitors, of course, is that one of the two batters out in the middle is Steve Smith, who is batting on 72 off 123. Safe to say that most in the world, including some Australians, might be hoping for a West Indies victory today. In Hyderabad, Lunch has been taken. After that, India begin what is bound to be a very tricky chase to tackle.
India vs England Live Score, IND vs ENG 1st Test Day 4: No 200 for Pope! England all out for 420, India need 231 to win
India vs England Live Score, IND vs ENG 1st Test Day 4: Pope shapes up for the scoop off the first ball of the 103rd over but Bumrah takes the pace off and goes full. Pope misses it entirely and his off stump is gone. All the Indian players walk up to Pope and congratulate him. He deserved a double century there but make no mistake, this is probably one of the greatest ever Test innings by a visiting batter in India. Scratch that, this is probably one of the greatest Test innings by anyone ever in India. He is not single-handedly responsible for England making a proper match out of this but he has about 60 percent of the credit for this. England's last five wickets have contributed 257 runs, 256 of which came off the stands for the sixth, seventh and eighth wickets. An unbelievable fightback this from the visitors and judging by how the pitch is playing now, India have a real task in their hands chasing this down.
India vs England Live Score, IND vs ENG 1st Test Day 4: OUT! Jadeja gets Wood
India vs England Live Score, IND vs ENG 1st Test Day 4: Well, well, well, is Pope going to be stuck on 195 here? Jadeja lures Wood forward and the latter does so, sharp spin away from him, outside edge and the keeper takes the catch.
IND vs ENG Live Score: England 420/9, lead by 230
India vs England Live Score, IND vs ENG 1st Test Day 4: India lose a review
India vs England Live Score, IND vs ENG 1st Test Day 4: Big appeal for LBW off the first ball of the 102nd over from Jadeja. The umpire turns it down and Jadeja urges Rohit to take the review. The Indian captain goes for it, no bat on it but it is missing the wickets on ball-tracking. Pope is on 195 off 274, they lead by 229 runs.
IND vs ENG Live Score: England 419/8
India vs England Live Score, IND vs ENG 1st Test Day 4: GONE! Ashwin gets the breakthrough
India vs England Live Score, IND vs ENG 1st Test Day 4: Bowled him! The partnership ends on 80 as Hartley falls to Ashwin. This one kept lower than the batter expected and England down to their last two wickets. Is this the opening India needed?
Hartley b Ashwin 34 (52)
IND vs ENG Live Score: England 419/8, lead by 229 runs
India vs England Live Score, IND vs ENG 1st Test Day 4: FOUR! Pope goes past India's lead
India vs England Live Score, IND vs ENG 1st Test Day 4: India's lead was 190, Pope himself has now gone to 195 in this utterly colossal innings.
Two more runs off the last two balls of that over from Axar, Pope is on 195 off 273, Hartley on 34 off 51.
IND vs ENG Live Score: England 419/7 in 100 overs