Gill-inspired India Leave England Facing Defeat

Second Rothesay Test, Edgbaston (day 4 of five)

India 587 & 427-6 dec: Gill 161, Jadeja 69*; Tongue 2-93

England 407 & 72-3: Pope 24*, Deep 2-36

England request 536 much runs to triumph

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England mislaid 3 top-order wickets earlier nan adjacent arsenic India surged towards triumph successful nan 2nd Test aft their skipper Shubman Gill's run-fest continued astatine Edgbaston.

Faced pinch nan prime of batting for a tie aliases going aft a pursuit of a near-impossible 608, Zak Crawley, Ben Duckett and Joe Root each fell to time off nan hosts 72-3 astatine nan extremity of time four.

Crawley played a chaotic thrust successful nan 2nd complete to beryllium caught for a duck and Duckett deed 5 boundaries earlier being bowled by Akash Deep for a 15-ball 25.

The electrical Deep, who has thrilled pinch nan new-ball successful his first Test successful England, past struck nan important rustle by sensationally bowling Root for six.

England had been kept successful nan section until 90 minutes earlier nan decorativeness arsenic Gill followed his epic 269 successful nan first innings pinch a dismissive 161 which allowed India to state connected 427-6.

He is nan first subordinate to grounds scores successful excess of 250 and 150 successful nan aforesaid Test while his wide haul of 430 this week is nan second-highest successful Test history.

Despite nan forecast of greeting rain, Gill's broadside are now overwhelming favourites to unafraid nan triumph connected time 5 that would level this bid astatine 1-1.

England, meanwhile, person an intriguing time ahead. That they do not play for draws has been 1 of nan pillars of their cricket nether Ben Stokes and Brendon McCullum.

But now, for nan first clip nether this regime, they are faced pinch a business wherever a successful pursuit is almost surely retired of nan question.

They person made 378, 373, 299, 296, 279 successful nan 4th innings to triumph nether Stokes but nan highest pursuit successful Test history is 418.

That leaves nan tie arsenic their astir apt measurement of preserving their bid lead going to Lord's adjacent week.

Gill's declaration came later than it could person – possibly fearing England's expertise to pursuit – but nan visitors person still near themselves nan action of nan caller shot aft beverage connected time four.

While that limb allowed Deep to find important activity precocious on, erstwhile nan shot has gone soft batting has looked acold easier.

England's strategies whitethorn beryllium moreover much absorbing than nan eventual result.