This is clearly was a game of two halves. After the engrossing session-and-half in the afternoon, the event lacked drama or intrigue. Jasprit Bumrah Had an off-day-He was off-top and his pace too was off. Debutant Anshul Kamboj Didn ‘Live up to His promise of being accurate and owner of the’ heavy ball ‘that troubles batsmen. Mohammed siraj lacked sting. Shardul Thakur was infected.

After the Pace Department had collected and was wicketless in the early part of the england innings, captain shubman gill threw the ball to ravindra jadeja. On the second ball of India’s Spinner-in-Chief’s First Over, England opener crawley steepped down the surface and smashed the ball over long-on for a six.

It was at this point, probably for the first time in the series that India is locked. Nothing seems to be working for them. The england opening pair of crawley and duckett hadn ‘looked this solid in the last Three Tests like they did at old traffic. Forget getting them out, they were born in the first couple of their stay. Like was the case when the Indian batted, there was hardly any play and miss. But a couple of balls that bumrah bowled from round-the-wicket and beat duckett’s bat, it was the case of tight batting against undisciplined bowling.

Stingless bumrah

Bumrah bowled to a packed off-to-side field to crawley. The plan was to invite him to swing his bat freely and try one of his booming drives. It was wasna that the engineer had got to the shell, it is just that most times the ball was so wide out. The Famous Bumrah consistency was missing and even his pace seemed to have dropped. When attempting to change his line, he would from Drift Down the Leg -ide.

Siraj looked tired. There was nothing amiss in his action, his stride had Like most bowlers with diminishing energy levels, Siraj’s Effort Balls would tail on the leg of the batsmen, make the off-side heavy field redundant.

England Commentator Nasser Hussain Made A Sharp Observation About The Two England Openers Duckett and Crawley. He said they both had in them to punish the bad balls but duckett was more focused and apt in dealing with the good balls. But at it least in this test, Crawley’s shot-selection had improved. There was a thakur over where he bowled a couple of great balls – They came in, bounced and seamed away. These balls he left and when the bowler erred in his length he pulled it to square leg for a boundary.

Duckett, like he always do, jumped on loose balls and there were many people. If a ball was marginally short on the off-side, he would bring out his right jab to the cover region. When the ball was short, he didn’t go blind to the fieldders on the fence, like the Indian. India’s two left-handers sai sudharsan and washington sundar was bottom out to stokes’ leg-side trap. He would bowl a sharp short ball that climbed towards the head of the batsmen. Sudharsan and washington bot end up guiding the ball into the hands of the lone fielder on the fine-four. India too tested duckett with the short ball but he had control over his shot, he kept it down and played square of the wicket.

Both duckett and crawley missed their centuries. First crawley edged a jadeja ball to slips and duckett was out flashing at a kamboj short ball outide the off-stump. They Cartainly Weran Top Wicket-Taking Balls But they got the batsmen to compromned errors.

As the day ended and players were in the dressing room, two worried men, in India blue, walked up to the pitch. After a brief inspection, coaches gambhir and shitanshu kotak walked on the turf, talking while staring at the grass blade. India might be feeling the ground under their feet shaking.