India paid warning to a energetic pitch and bowling and scored solely 63 runs against England on the fourth morning Monday (June 23, 2025) of the series-opening Headingley take a look at.
India was 153-3 at lunch, main by 159 runs in its second innings.
After India captain Shubman Gill was out to the seventh ball of the day, England would have anticipated one other wicket or two with the ball nipping about in vivid and windy circumstances. England bowled properly in an edgy air of anticipation.
But Lokesh Rahul was dropped on 58, and in any other case he and Rishabh Pant battened down in their very own distinctive methods.
Rahul, shouldering accountability as India’s senior batter, began on 47 and reached 72, including solely 25 runs from 82 balls within the session.
Despite some good leaves and excellent protection, Rahul was dropped when he tried steering pacer Josh Tongue vast of Harry Brook at gully. But Brook could not pull down the 142 kph (88 mph) supply above his head.
Pant was harmful to England and himself. He recklessly swiped at a number of with out understanding the place they have been going. The second ball he confronted flew over the slips. One of his fallover ramps got here to grief and England reviewed for lbw, however Pant obtained an inside edge on it.
He was chaotic subsequent to Rahul’s calm and wanted a again therapeutic massage within the drinks break. At lunch he was on 31 off 59 balls.
Gill moved from 6 in a single day to 8 when he tried to reduce Brydon Carse however chopped on to his off stump. The wicket felt like a blow to India’s hopes so early on day 4 however Rahul and Pant absorbed all the things England threw at them.
Carse was 2-39 and Ben Stokes had 1-34.
