Podchaser Logo
Home
Following On In India - Full Highlights - 5th Test, Day 2

Following On In India - Full Highlights - 5th Test, Day 2

Released Friday, 8th March 2024
Good episode? Give it some love!
Following On In India - Full Highlights - 5th Test, Day 2

Following On In India - Full Highlights - 5th Test, Day 2

Following On In India - Full Highlights - 5th Test, Day 2

Following On In India - Full Highlights - 5th Test, Day 2

Friday, 8th March 2024
Good episode? Give it some love!
Rate Episode

Episode Transcript

Transcripts are displayed as originally observed. Some content, including advertisements may have changed.

Use Ctrl + F to search

0:00

So it's David's first week. Welcome David.

0:02

Actually to kick things off David, maybe

0:04

you can let us know your thoughts

0:06

on the productivity portfolio flips around the

0:09

Spending Dilip. OK. Er,

0:11

sorry? Give us your

0:13

initial POV on the productivity portfolio MooMoo

0:15

make much more with a feather this

0:17

morning. Oh, that. Yeah. The

0:19

er... Does industry talk make zero sense to you?

0:22

Find collaborative articles with tips from the LinkedIn

0:24

community to help you navigate those awkward moments.

0:27

Making work make sense. LinkedIn knows how. Here's

0:31

a cool fact. A crocodile can't

0:33

stick out its tongue. Another

0:35

cool fact, you can get short-term health insurance

0:37

for a month or just under a year

0:39

in some states. UnitedHealthcare short-term insurance

0:41

plans are designed for people who are between

0:44

jobs, coming off their parents plan or turning

0:46

a side hustle into a full-time gig. Underwritten

0:49

by Golden Rule Insurance Company, they

0:51

offer flexible budget- friendly coverage with

0:53

access to a nationwide network of

0:55

doctors and hospitals. Get more cool

0:57

facts about UnitedHealthcare short-term plans at

0:59

uh1.com. short-term plans at uh1.com. And

1:27

that's exactly what they set their stall out to do. For

1:57

England the pitch. By that point looking

1:59

flat. In India we know

2:01

can bat time. The backdrop beautiful the

2:03

situation for England ugly. Rohit and

2:05

Gill raring to go. Let's find

2:08

out how they got on starting with Neil

2:10

Manthorpe and Alex Tudor. Here's

2:12

Shokar Sheer. Oh and a hoik

2:15

down the ground. That's

2:17

unkind. There's a lot more elegance to

2:19

it. It was a bottom

2:21

hand flicked on drive from Rohit Sharma

2:23

and it's come to sea. Right

2:26

in the slot wasn't it? Yeah when you said hoik I

2:28

was like that's a bit harsh. There's

2:31

a great shot. He just saw it fall in

2:33

length. He knows it's not turning big and

2:35

he just dispatched over long on. He

2:38

just says thanks very much and easy six for me. He's

2:41

showed by Sheer again and once more

2:43

he goes straight down the ground. Six

2:46

more. What a shot from

2:48

Rohit Sharma. It's actually landed just before the

2:51

rope. Four runs. So he's

2:53

given himself six balls as a siter. Shokar

2:55

Sheer opens up with a maiden and then

2:57

he goes for ten. He's next two balls.

3:00

But this is calculated good cricket. You know

3:02

mid off for mid honour up. The balls up.

3:05

He says okay if it's up it's off. It

3:07

is gonna be a long day and Jimmy Anderson

3:09

he hasn't swung. Nothing has happened

3:11

at all. Down the wicket comes Shodman

3:13

Gill. Launches him straight back

3:16

down the ground straight back over the

3:18

baller's head. He's taken a little

3:20

half step down the pitch and

3:22

has smashed it for six straight back over the

3:24

baller's head. Well that's

3:26

just very impressive. Shodman

3:28

Gill's a very elegant player. Manus

3:32

said there was no swing so he knows

3:34

there's nothing to worry about. He just advances

3:36

down the wicket, extends the arms. The head

3:39

has not moved. He's

3:41

just extension of the arms. Little

3:43

of his back leg comes up.

3:45

Elevates it, admires it and it's

3:48

held dead straight. Even

3:50

Ben Stokes says yeah sure.

3:52

That's carved away behind square

3:55

on the offside. Pass backward

3:57

point. Well there's a poor

3:59

living here. Jimmy Anderson to be fair. Medium

4:02

pace, too short, too wide outside the

4:04

host dump got what it deserved. Yeah,

4:07

short wide nose movement, nothing at all.

4:10

Asham McGill just stands tall, elegant,

4:12

just throws his hands at it. It's a

4:14

fantastic shot. Seems Bolt upright

4:17

does absolutely nothing. I tell you

4:19

what, we're in for a

4:21

remarkable day's cricket. I think they

4:23

can somehow dig their way back

4:26

into this test match. The

4:28

crowd, I have to say, the English supporters are

4:30

doing their very, very best and good on them.

4:33

That's just steered so

4:35

gently performed by Rohit Sharma.

4:38

It's like he was trying not to damage the

4:40

ball there. He was just just gently

4:42

steering it past the solitary

4:45

slip down to the unguarded third-man

4:47

boundary. It's rushed away for four.

4:49

Rohit Sharma is 68, Shahmigill is

4:52

37. Jai Swal dancing

4:54

down the train was stopped until

4:56

he was 76. He's just been put down.

4:59

Rohit Sharma, who was

5:02

Shcherbeshir's first wicket in international

5:04

cricket in exactly

5:06

the same manner as how

5:09

he went in that first test. There's not going

5:11

to be many chances, but the chances they

5:13

do get, you thought England need to take it.

5:16

They do need to take them and

5:18

that was definitely an opportunity. He was

5:20

good again. I'm over the wicket and

5:22

this is cut on the up square

5:24

of the wicket. Beautiful shot from Shcherbeshir.

5:26

It was in his arc, through

5:29

with the shot, moves up to 42 and

5:32

India 175 for one. As Motwood

5:34

again is in, this is pitched up, driven

5:37

quite beautifully by Shcherbeshir back-to-back

5:39

boundaries and India on the

5:41

charge. 39 runs now

5:44

away from England's first inning

5:46

score and Shcherbeshir moves to

5:48

46 with a sumptuous cover

5:50

drive. Two steps in place,

5:52

short from Mark Wood and

5:54

pulled by Shcherbeshir

5:56

who will reach 50 again. Another

6:01

fine knock from India's number

6:03

three. Seems like quite

6:05

some time ago that he seemingly played for

6:07

his immediate career at

6:09

test level. And

6:12

that's 50 from 64 and

6:15

he has looked so

6:17

assured ever since that second innings in

6:19

ranching. He came to the crease with

6:21

India having a little bit of

6:24

a wobble, wickets falling at the other end, five

6:26

of them for 36 runs but Shubman Gill,

6:29

held firm, saw India home

6:32

and he's back here and he's got another 50. Mark

6:34

Wood goes in. That's an edge and

6:36

it's through second step where England have

6:38

just taken the fielder and it goes

6:40

to third. Well they've set the field

6:42

for the short puts ball and

6:45

it was the pin-step one and it's a

6:47

genuine outside edge. It takes

6:49

Shubman Gill to 57 with a boundary

6:51

four. And well

6:54

England set up the three-card trick.

6:57

They just forgot to play the third

6:59

card. And goes Mark Wood once

7:01

again off the back foot punch and Shubman

7:03

Gill, what a shot! That is. England

7:06

have got Hartley down as a

7:08

catching third and he

7:10

had to go eight metres to his

7:12

right and didn't get there in time.

7:15

It's another boundary. Gill goes

7:17

to 61, India 197 for one. Yeah

7:21

it was a beautiful shot there from Shubman

7:23

Gill. In goes Mark Wood. Off the back

7:25

foot is Gill, out three points. Hartley will

7:27

come around who is the wiser

7:29

of the two offside. Catches out

7:31

on the boundary and they

7:33

take a couple to bring up the Indian 200. 201

7:37

for one. They

7:39

deficit therefore 17, Rohit 76, Shubman Gill 64. Here

7:46

is Wood once again. He steps away

7:48

to the leg side, Rohit Sharma and

7:50

clubs this one wide and long off

7:52

down to the boundary for four. Well

7:56

the field was so obvious with a

7:58

square legged. deep mid wicket and a

8:00

short and a catching mid wicket. He's

8:02

just stepped away to the leg side,

8:04

he knows it's coming in at the

8:07

body and has smashed it baseball style

8:09

through long off before. He is well

8:11

within once again he goes full and

8:13

straight and is driven straight back past

8:16

his right foot and down to

8:18

the boundary for four more. Suttman

8:21

Gill moves on to 69. You

8:24

know is about Suttman don't you that you

8:26

don't get conditions like this very often you

8:28

know more often than not you're

8:31

gonna be playing on a pitch which might

8:33

offer the bowl to something and the ball

8:35

might misbehave and so when you

8:37

do get conditions as

8:39

flat as this you know you have to

8:42

kill your balls. He's gone for a

8:44

york at earmark wood that delivery was bowled at 151 Ks

8:46

and he's just punched it straight

8:50

down the ground beautifully it

8:53

is flat. Oh dear me that's

8:55

his put short and pulled down

8:57

towards fine leg Tom Hartley fielded

9:00

it like a wet bar of soap it just squirmed

9:02

out of his fingers and towards the boundary and it

9:04

looked like it had actually gone on to the boundary

9:07

the third umpire has decided to have a

9:09

little check here to see whether it did touch the

9:11

boundary and it did so

9:13

there's a bonus couple of

9:15

runs for Rohit Sharma

9:18

that's that's just embarrassing 40 minutes

9:20

to go till lunch and Shoa

9:22

Bashir is back into the attack

9:24

down the wicket comes Schudmann Gill

9:26

he's gone straight back over the

9:28

bowlers head for six more that's

9:31

the third time he's

9:33

helped himself to a straight six back over

9:36

the bowlers head and

9:38

he's shown his intent first ball of

9:40

the over put the bowler under pressure just

9:43

advances down the wicket with

9:46

no real effort and elegance

9:49

that Schudmann Gill displays straight down

9:51

the ground thank you very much

9:55

and Shoa Bashir scratching his head thinking how

9:57

on earth am I gonna get the wicket

10:00

Hartley again and on the sweep is Rohit

10:02

Sharma and the ball will

10:04

sail away for another boundary. Shabashir

10:06

gives this up as soon as it passes in.

10:09

Pockwood square leg and Rohit moves to

10:12

89. It's

10:14

a great shot from Rohit Sharma. There's no one

10:16

out there. There's

10:18

not much spin for Tom Hartley

10:20

so a very safe shot executed

10:22

beautifully. We know that this England team

10:24

don't change things. Down the track and

10:26

this is how India have gone about

10:29

their business. A flick

10:32

of a switch, 100 up and

10:34

unwelcome one for Bashir. Smiles

10:37

between Gill and Sharma and

10:40

knowing look as well. And

10:42

Gill has just smashed the young spinner

10:46

over mid-wicket for another maximum. Slightly short

10:48

and Shabman Gill hits it through point

10:50

for four. He's going to go to

10:52

95. He's

10:55

one shot away from 100. India now 255 for

10:57

one. The lead to 37. Hartley left armour round.

11:04

Bolster Rohit Sharma, he clicks into the

11:06

legs high. Big solopile put short in

11:08

his wicket and will take the single

11:10

out of that poorly. And

11:12

Rohit Sharma raises his bat

11:15

for 100 from 154 balls. It's

11:21

another test match 100. He's 12th all together. Ten

11:26

of them at home, four of

11:28

them against England, three of them

11:31

at home against England. And

11:33

the Indian captain is setting a

11:35

mighty table for each team here. 257 for

11:37

one. Yeah,

11:40

100 of absolute beauty, quality,

11:43

balance, timing, elegance.

11:45

The shot making of Rohit Sharma is

11:47

always beautiful to watch. Whether it's against

11:50

the off spin or the left arm spin, pure

11:52

pacing Mark Wood or Jimmy Anderson trying

11:54

to create pressure. Rohit Sharma has

11:56

had the answer, 154 balls. in

12:00

his own pace, in his own time and

12:02

when this guy makes runs it is beautiful

12:05

to watch. But she goes in, balls to

12:07

Schudmann Gill. Schudmann Gill brings it into the

12:09

lead side and gets the

12:11

four. He takes his cap off, bails

12:14

to the crowd. Schudmann Gill is

12:16

100 not out from

12:18

137 balls. India 262 for one, the lead 44.

12:21

But Schudmann Gill, his second hundred. Of

12:30

the series it's a high,

12:32

high class one as well. Beautiful

12:34

hundred from Schudmann Gill. A man

12:36

that came into the series averaging

12:38

31 question marks on his players.

12:41

Struggled in the first test match, got a

12:43

match, winning 90 in the second and ends

12:45

of the second test match. 50 in

12:48

the last test match to win the series and

12:50

get him over the line. In a run

12:54

get in which I think come of age

12:56

of this 24 year old and in

12:58

this inning is 137 balls. It's

13:00

been magnificent. Gill clips this from Hartley through

13:02

the lead side, through square leg and they'll

13:04

take a single. And

13:08

that is it. The

13:11

umpires say that is time

13:13

and the

13:15

bails are knocked off. England have stuck to

13:18

it and they've done what they tried to do

13:20

all that they can but they've

13:22

been outgunned this morning and pretty badly

13:24

outgunned for two hours. So a pretty

13:26

one sided session of test cricket. 129

13:29

runs and not

13:32

even a single wicket to celebrate. Drop

13:34

catches as well and a couple of miss fields.

13:37

Rohit and Gill completing their centuries within a

13:39

couple of deliveries of each other and

13:42

embracing the crisp Himalayan air.

13:45

A masterful partnership each taking turns

13:47

between all out attack and

13:49

strike rotation along the way. England

13:52

demoralised a little bit so who will they turn

13:54

to when they need a wicket? Step

13:56

forward a man who hasn't bowled since July

13:59

last year. and who

14:01

promised to talk sports Andrew McKenna. He wouldn't

14:03

bowl at all this series, Captain Ben

14:06

Stokes. Stokes to bowl them for

14:08

the first time in the series. He's in

14:10

his right arm over the wicket and he

14:12

has bowled through his shoulder first

14:15

ball with an absolute seed

14:18

of a delivery that is

14:20

pitched on or straightened and

14:23

pegged off stand-packed and pressed

14:25

in the towel as

14:27

the camera pans onto the

14:29

English coach, cannot

14:31

take the smile off his face.

14:34

Skipper to skipper, Rohit

14:36

goes for a century, Stokes

14:38

set fire first ball and

14:40

India lose their second. Well,

14:42

that is unbelievable. He keys right in

14:44

his own headlines as Ben Stokes. He's

14:46

absolutely phenomenal. He's bowled his first ball.

14:49

He's not bowled since the ashes, listeners.

14:51

He's not bowled since the ashes. The

14:53

wicket, the balls done nothing all day

14:56

for Mark Wood and Jimmy Anderson. Ben

14:58

Stokes says, I've had enough, especially after

15:00

that disrespectful shot of Shubman Gill of

15:02

our goat, Jimmy Anderson. Give me the

15:04

ball. I'm going to do

15:07

something. He's bowled an absolute seed.

15:09

Stokes again, leading

15:11

from the front as he is into the

15:13

left hand. It's a Patekal who's on the

15:15

drive. He touched flat-footed.

15:18

And that's his first scoring shot

15:21

in test cricket. He'll pick up a boundary,

15:24

the ball flying down to third.

15:27

But I wonder if Stokes would have had

15:29

two slips in place, if

15:31

that would have carried it. It is Anderson again and

15:33

it beats the Shubman Gill with a ball

15:35

that comes back into the right hand off.

15:38

Gill is too late on the shot. And

15:41

England have gone bang bang at the start

15:43

of the session. And it's

15:45

Gill's turn to walk. He's been

15:47

parceled. And England whisper

15:51

it. They just believe they've

15:54

got the barest of sniffs

15:56

to get their way back into this game.

15:59

And Jimmy Anderson. has also produced

16:01

an absolutely wondrous delivery

16:04

to get rid of a set batter. India

16:06

now three laps. I don't know what we've

16:08

had for lunch but whatever it is they've had,

16:10

it's worked. That was

16:12

at least 10 miles an hour quicker

16:15

than his last delivery. 137

16:17

k's. We've not seen that from Jimmy Anderson

16:19

for a while. I think

16:21

that over from Ben Stokes he's given everybody a little

16:23

bit of a lift. And

16:25

he said, come on, follow me. And Anderson

16:28

has done so. No centurions

16:30

back in the hatch. We

16:33

always say, don't we, the old adage, put

16:35

2-1 to the score. 2-79

16:38

for free. Two new

16:40

batters. Anything's

16:42

possible. You never know with this team. So

16:47

it's David's first week. Welcome, David. Actually,

16:50

to kick things off, David, maybe you

16:52

can let us know your thoughts on

16:54

the productivity portfolio flips around the spending

16:56

dilip. Okay. Uh,

16:59

sorry? Give us your initial POV

17:01

on the productivity portfolio MooMoo make

17:03

much more with the feather this morning. Oh,

17:05

that. Yeah. The uh... Does

17:07

industry talk make zero sense

17:09

to you? Find collaborative articles with tips from

17:12

the LinkedIn community to help you navigate

17:14

those awkward moments. Making work make sense.

17:16

LinkedIn knows how. Normally, being a little

17:18

extra might be a bit much, but

17:20

not when it comes to healthcare. That's

17:22

why UnitedHealthcare's Health Protector Guard fixed indemnity

17:25

insurance plans, underwritten by Golden Rule

17:27

Insurance Company, supplement your primary plan. So

17:29

you manage out-of-pocket costs. Learn more at

17:31

uh1.com. Hey,

17:34

I'm Ryan Reynolds. Recently, I asked Mint

17:36

Mobile's legal team if big wireless companies

17:38

are allowed to raise prices due to

17:40

inflation. They said yes. And then when

17:42

I asked if raising prices technically violates

17:44

those onerous two-year contracts, they said, what

17:46

the f*** are you talking about, you

17:48

insane Hollywood a*****e? So to recap, we're

17:51

cutting the price of Mint Unlimited from $30 a month to

17:53

just $15 a month. Give it

17:55

a try at mintmobile.com/switch. Give it a try at

17:57

mintmobile.com/switch. $45 up front for three months

17:59

plus taxes and fees. Promote for new customers for limited time. Unlimited

18:01

more than 40 gigabytes per month. Mint Unlimited slows. Stokes

18:07

is coming in once again past

18:09

the umpire. Left-handed Padical is coming

18:11

forward. That's a lovely, lovely push drive

18:13

all along the carpet through cover for

18:16

four. That's a shot

18:18

and a half from a bloke who's only just

18:20

new to the crease. His ninth ball Padical that

18:22

he puts it away for a boundary four. He

18:24

goes to eight, 285 for

18:26

three, the lead 67. Anderson

18:29

around the wicket, edged and it lands

18:31

just short of the single slip. Goes

18:34

away for four. Padical goes into double

18:36

figures. Joe Root was diving and

18:38

also trying to collapse down to his

18:40

left-hand side because if it had carried

18:42

it would have been a very, very

18:45

low catch as it was. It bounces

18:47

in front of Root and goes past

18:49

that outstretched left hand and goes away

18:51

for a boundary four. It's

18:54

amazing what wickets can do.

18:57

He said it's still a very good wicket. England

19:00

have got their tails up. Anderson around the

19:02

wicket. Padical is punching off the back foot.

19:04

What a shot that is. There's a

19:06

man in a short extra and then

19:08

there's the traditional extra cover and it's

19:11

biceps is a pair of them for

19:13

a back foot punch four. Padical goes

19:15

to 17. India, 299

19:18

for three, their lead by 81. This

19:20

is a good shot. This is a

19:22

fantastic cricket shot. Jimmy Anderson continues and

19:24

that's driven in the air and just

19:26

past cover. And depth at

19:28

Padical was not in control of that. That

19:31

was, he was lured into the cover drive.

19:34

He's hit it in the air and

19:36

Jimmy Anderson is grimacing with

19:38

frustration because that was almost a

19:40

plan that worked. Yeah, well,

19:42

we know that they are, they're

19:44

aware that he's going to go through square on the

19:46

offside. He just sort of

19:49

throws his hands at it. They got fielders everywhere

19:51

and somehow he's found the gap there. They had

19:53

it set up for him but didn't quite work.

19:55

Here's Anderson again and that's punched off the back

19:57

foot by Padical. but

20:00

Tom Hartley and for the second time

20:02

he's knocked it on for four. For

20:05

the second time today Hartley

20:07

earlier saw one

20:09

slip through his fingers on the boundary

20:11

and onto the boundaries before. This

20:14

time he's tried to slide tackle it three

20:16

or four yards inside the rope and

20:18

somehow made enough of a hash

20:20

of it to actually knock it onto the

20:23

boundary for 13. Meanwhile Mark Wood comes into

20:25

bowl and Saffras bumps him back over his

20:27

head for three bounces and

20:29

four. Saffras is going to maintain

20:31

some degree of normality even if the commentary

20:34

isn't. He goes to 23, India

20:36

333 for three leading by 115. Yeah beautiful shot this

20:38

slightly on the up I

20:44

suppose in the end but I think what they're

20:46

doing at the moment is that they they settled

20:48

down that pressure that England were putting on them and

20:50

now they're thinking we're five overs from the new ball

20:53

let's try and get 30 or 40 runs in that

20:55

period and put a little pressure back on England just

20:57

because that was the one period of the game where

20:59

India it's not that they weren't on top but they

21:01

weren't rolling over England like they had been for pretty

21:04

much every other moment of this game. It's that Mark

21:06

Wood going in bowls a short ball and

21:08

Saffras ducks down underneath

21:10

it and goes up and under

21:13

up and over the slips playing the ramp

21:15

Hartley can't prevent it going for four down

21:18

at third. Well the IPL's a few weeks

21:20

away it does like Saffras is getting into

21:22

gear already he's 27 knots out with

21:24

the ball that he looked like he was

21:27

trying to evade and he just left the

21:29

bat there and let it roll up

21:31

the face and guide it on. Yeah he's

21:33

played up beautifully. Saffras here in a game

21:35

and a far swept

21:38

by Saffras can't. We

21:40

have spoken about what a good player

21:42

of Vinny is compared to the

21:44

uncertainty with which he plays pace but

21:47

my goodness he knows how to deal with a

21:49

spinner and that's Howard from Square

21:51

Leg Boundary he's on 47. England

21:53

shot from Saffras can and a little bit

21:56

straighter a little bit shorter in length from

21:59

Shoa Beshar. just dragged it down a

22:01

touch with an excellent shot from Safaraz

22:03

Khan. I really struggled to understand why.

22:07

Swat again by Safaraz Khan in the

22:09

air this time, same place, same result

22:12

and he's got 50

22:14

and he's quite the showman as

22:16

well is Safaraz Khan. Anybody think he

22:18

just scored 150? He's, I wouldn't

22:24

say he's acknowledging the applause so much

22:26

as milking it. He's milking it, he's

22:28

excitable. Anderson again and that one

22:30

is driven beautifully. What a shot.

22:33

Cover drive from Devdutt Padikal. I

22:35

think a glorious piece of batting that.

22:38

It was over pitched from Jimmy Anderson, it didn't

22:40

swing, it hit the middle of the bat but

22:42

still as so

22:45

many left-handers somehow managed

22:47

to do, makes it look

22:49

very, very elegant. No further joy

22:51

for England with Devdutt Padikal unbeaten

22:53

on 44 and Safaraz

22:55

Khan unbeaten on 53 as India

22:58

have reached 373 for three with a mighty lead

23:00

of 158 runs. They are a long, long

23:03

way ahead

23:09

in the Test match and they

23:11

still have seven wickets in hand

23:13

and they could finish the day

23:16

out of reach even for

23:18

this England team who, I remember, came back from a deficit of

23:21

119, the first test in Hyderabad but they are 158 runs in

23:23

Arias England and they still have

23:27

seven wickets to take. Perhaps

23:30

it was made to be that Stokes

23:32

would send Rohit's off-stump cartwheeling in his

23:34

first delivery in nearly a year. Anderson

23:36

then went, whatever you can do, I can do better

23:38

and did the same to Gill to take his 699th

23:40

Test wicket. The problem

23:44

is though, as you know, India

23:46

had already put on 171 runs for the

23:48

second wicket and that was to be as

23:50

good as it got in the afternoon session

23:52

with Padikal on debut and Safaraz Khan ensuring

23:55

India didn't fall into the same traps

23:58

as England did yesterday. Taking

24:01

India to T at 376 for three, Stokes

24:03

had given the Bami Army something to

24:06

cheer but India had continued

24:08

to dominate. So how did the

24:10

final session of the day sound on TalkSport 2?

24:12

Let's find out. Basheer will ball the first

24:15

over and first ball after T and

24:17

he's got Sarfraz caught at slip. Turns,

24:20

bounces and Sarfraz has guided

24:22

it straight to Joe Root

24:25

and we said England needed quick wickets. You

24:28

can't get any quicker than that but she has

24:30

got a two for, Sarfraz goes for 56, India

24:33

376 for four. Yeah,

24:36

as you say with

24:38

the break can

24:40

sometimes be a relaxing concentration and it

24:42

looks so. Just

24:45

a normal off break really. He's

24:48

played back, he's gone

24:50

for a little bit of a late cop, he's

24:52

just giving catching practice to Joe Root there at

24:54

slip. Easy catch. Basheer

24:56

is going to start a new over

24:58

and Devdot Parakhal has just walked him

25:00

back over his head into

25:03

the pavilion to six. To

25:05

bring up 50 for Devdot

25:08

Parakhal on Test match gave

25:11

you 51 from 83 balls,

25:14

8 balls and

25:16

a six. India

25:18

385 for four. But

25:21

Devdot Parakhal is doing a job for his team

25:23

here. Oh that's no way to announce

25:25

yourself at international stage.

25:28

Test cricket. As hardly goes in,

25:30

Parakhal deep in his piece, goes back for

25:32

the points on this occasion and will get

25:34

four more. Eight from the over

25:37

in three balls India 394 for four. If

25:40

there's any good news for England at least it wasn't another humble

25:42

four which I think we're up to about five on so far.

25:45

Boulding Basheer has bowled Devdot

25:47

Parakhal for 65 and that

25:49

one came out of the

25:51

blue. It's just skidded straight on

25:53

and it's beaten him up past the inside edge

25:55

and clapped him to the top of middle and

25:57

log and Parakhal's in the top of middle. gone

26:00

and Bashir has three for 137 and 15 wickets

26:02

in the series. India are 403 for 5. That's

26:11

a good ball from Bashir, it's just

26:14

straight in the touch and

26:16

as Parikar brings his bat down from

26:19

sort of first slip it tries to get

26:21

on the arc of playing

26:23

the ball straight as his

26:25

bat comes down at an angle. Bashir

26:28

just managed to sneak one past him, it's

26:30

an excellent debut. First in

26:32

in for Timbukh, Parikar, 65 of 103

26:34

balls. And show it Bashir,

26:37

he's just showing everybody again, he's

26:39

got wicket-taking deliveries in him. Humble

26:41

and absolute beauty there and I

26:43

think he said to himself that

26:46

was a good ball. By the way and mis-fielded

26:48

by Zach Coley out on Backward

26:51

Point boundary and he's now cursing somebody

26:54

else rather than himself. He

26:56

had that covered, he was on the sweeper boundary,

26:58

it's cut behind square on the outside

27:01

by the drug durell and

27:03

I don't know, did it

27:05

bounce? Was there a bobble? No. Who

27:07

is he yelling at? I'm trying, you're

27:09

trying to be polite about showing

27:12

Bashir's bat in or fielding but not

27:14

much, you can be polite about that

27:16

from Zach Coley. Halle it is, it's

27:18

cut away this time from Giroir and

27:20

a diving Backward Point can't prevent the

27:22

ball from running

27:24

to the boundary and away for four.

27:27

Giroir moves to 13, the score 418

27:29

for five India

27:31

and the lead has now reached 200. Halle

27:33

goes in, bolsters his age, rips one

27:36

through and he misses it and he

27:38

stone-cold LBW. Halle's

27:41

worked so hard for that one,

27:43

it's his first in the eight

27:45

match, India have

27:48

reviewed it but

27:50

Halle was pleading the umpire to

27:52

give that. but

28:00

you can stay with your house decision. You're

28:03

on the screen, make your six-hour lap. Jadajat

28:06

is out. LBW

28:08

two-heartedly. 427-7. Bashir

28:13

is in once again. Jirell is going high into

28:16

the leg side. He's not got all of it.

28:18

He's got the height, but he won't get enough

28:20

to clear. Duck it, and he's caught on the

28:22

long-on boundary. Jirell goes for 14. Indira

28:26

427-6. And

28:30

show it Bashir is getting

28:32

himself towards the five-foot. He's got

28:34

four now, four for 145. He's

28:37

got rid of Jirell. Well, I said

28:39

the only way really, Inglow are

28:42

going to get wickets. It's

28:45

by miscalculation from the batters. And

28:48

Jirell's trying to take him downtown. Ben Duckett has

28:50

got long-on, and takes

28:52

it quite comfortably. Shire

28:55

Bashir has now got four-foot. And

28:58

there's just this air of... He's

29:00

got confidence. It's what we should do. You know, he's playing

29:02

in his first series, playing against India in India. And

29:06

he's picking up some wickets, and that's all he can do. Forget

29:09

the runs, Colin. He's

29:11

getting wickets. He's learning on the job. Oh,

29:13

he goes in. A ball-ass win! A

29:15

tentative prod. Batten

29:18

pad were separated from each other,

29:20

and it just goes straight through

29:22

and castles him. It's a five-ball

29:24

duck in his 100-plus match, and

29:27

it's 428 for eight. So

29:32

England continue to take wickets. That's

29:35

now three in the

29:37

space of eight deliveries. Hartley

29:40

gets Ashwin's

29:42

one that, if we'll be brutally honest,

29:45

didn't do a stone-cold thing. But he

29:47

did what he needed to do. He hit the timbers.

29:49

That's all that matters. Hit ball straight. Ashwin

29:55

on his 100th test

29:57

match. He bowled well. Well,

30:00

for she has not worked for the bat. I

30:04

need the parts for zero. England

30:07

have India 8 now. Here's Hartley

30:09

again, sweep shot from Kordik Yadav.

30:13

And that's gone to four. He

30:15

played that really, really well. He's

30:17

placed it superbly. He's hit

30:19

it hard but very, very much deliberately into the

30:22

gap. This is a beautiful shot from Gunra. He

30:25

just rides the bounce, enjoys

30:28

the lack of pace, and

30:30

dabs the set to Volton Ford for

30:33

four. He goes into double figures,

30:36

India's lead stretches up to 237, and

30:39

455 for eight. So

30:41

that's the end of the day's play. Five wickets

30:43

in the session. And for that,

30:46

England deserve credit. I think

30:48

it's fair to say. I mean, they have stuck at it.

30:51

They never in any way, not literally,

30:53

but metaphorically, waved the white flag. They

30:56

knew it was going to be hard from them. They

30:58

arrived at the ground this morning. Well, in fact, yesterday

31:00

evening, when they got back to their hotel, they

31:03

knew that today would be a hard, hard day. And

31:06

they've managed to take seven wickets during the course

31:08

of it. Shohe Bashir has taken

31:10

four of them. And Tom Hartley at one

31:12

stage had none for 125, finished

31:15

the day with a couple of

31:17

consolation wickets. But, yeah,

31:20

I mean, apart from

31:22

the stunning scenery and

31:25

the incredibly beautiful

31:27

surrounds, there hasn't

31:29

been a great deal for England fans to

31:32

cheer about. Well, the good news, England,

31:34

is that the final session was by

31:36

far their best of the day. The

31:38

bad is that England

31:41

still allowed India to rack up another 97 runs

31:44

to their lead. And India will still

31:46

be batting when play resumes live

31:48

in exclusively on Talkport 2 on

31:50

Saturday morning at 4am. There

31:53

were those five wickets for England, including three

31:55

more for Bashir, meaning England may have a

31:57

bright future ahead in the Spin Bowl in his

31:59

apartment. The immediate future though

32:01

looks a little less bright, especially

32:04

when it comes to the batting

32:06

against India, who have a

32:08

few spinners of their own.

32:11

India once again ruthless on day

32:13

two, padding from dawn until dusk. England

32:15

will still believe however, and that

32:18

is enough reason for you to tune in at

32:20

4am tomorrow where our ball

32:22

by ball coverage continues on TalkSport 2

32:24

or via the TalkSport Cricket YouTube channel.

32:27

Or you can just come back here and get

32:29

the highlights delivered straight to your podcast

32:32

feed. Until then it's bye for now and thanks for listening.

32:51

At Talk Sport we absolutely love it when our fans

32:53

get stuck in. That's why we

32:55

want you to join us in the Dugout, a

32:57

brilliant new Talk Sport listener community. It's a place

32:59

where you can tell us what sports you're into

33:01

and who your favourite teams are. And

33:03

tell us what you think we could do better,

33:05

like big guests and new sports and that. You

33:08

could win an Amazon voucher for taking part. What are

33:11

you waiting for? Visit talksport.com/dugout and

33:13

get stuck in. 18

33:16

plus terms and conditions apply.

Unlock more with Podchaser Pro

  • Audience Insights
  • Contact Information
  • Demographics
  • Charts
  • Sponsor History
  • and More!
Pro Features