Xtra Time Web Desk: Jasprit Bumrah took five wickets for India while England captain Joe Root scored a brilliant hundred on Day 4 of the first test match at Trent Bridge on Saturday. India will need another 157 runs while England will require 9 wickets to win the first test and go 1-0 ahead in the series.
India at stumps on Day 4 has scored 52 for one with Stuart Broad dismissing KL Rahul (26 off 38 balls) with a beauty. Rohit Sharma and Cheteshwar Pujara were unbeaten on 12 each. England captain Joe Root scored his 21st Test hundred — a masterful 109 off 172 balls, that saw England put up a much-improved batting show, scoring 303 in 85.5 overs and secure a lead of 208 runs. Bumrah (5/64 in 19 overs) polished the tail in a jiffy with the second now ball en route to his sixth five-wicket haul.
However, the Indian bowlers were taken to task by the England captain, whose mode of survival for the better part of the innings was swift counter-attack that fetched him as many as 14 boundaries before Bumrah induced an edge of the England captain.
The difference between an easy target of 150 and a “neither here nor there” kind of target was primarily Root.
On the final day, if weather permits, India will need another 157 runs but in these conditions, it could prove to be more than a handful with James Anderson, Stuart Broad and Ollie Robinson making the ball talk. Sam Curran is also expected to play a decent supporting role.