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  India vs England : 4th Test Match at Old Trafford. Anderson-Tendulkar Trophy The battle for survival Day Four : A mixed day for both the teams with England taking the honors in the morning session and India coming back strongly in the following sessions. Ben Stokes completed his much awaited century post the Ashes series in 2023 and England taking a sizeable lead of 311 runs from where there can be only two results; win for England or draw by effective batting by India. The day started with Ben Stokes ready to go from 1st delivery with Dawson and take the score to the maximum level. However the partnership was broken by Bumrah when he bowled Dawson in the early stages of 4th day. Stokes displayed his intent and started scoring runs in the company of Carse.  The biggest advantage with this England team is their tailenders chipping in when required which India could not sustain. Stokes and Carse continued plundering runs and both added 95 runs in their important partnership. S...

  India vs England : 4th Test Match at Old Trafford. Anderson-Tendulkar Trophy The power of BenRoot Day Three: The moving day became really special for England, they consolidated their position from 2nd day to end the day on a commanding position. A big score of 544 runs at the cost of 7 wickets and the lead of 186 runs will be a nightmare to Indian team. First time in a decade India conceded 500 uns overseas. Ben Stokes remains unbeaten at 77. The Bazball team will further add runs to give India a minimum of five sessions to bat it out. Wicket has unpredictable bounce at times and English pacers definitely will have their strategy to bowl with a plan and try to win the game convincingly. However a small ray of hope lands in India’s favour with weather forecast late on Saturday and more rains predicted on Sunday, whether India will be in a position to draw the test match. The odd performance of the pace attack barring Bumrah has opened up a big question on the credibi...

  India vs England : 4th Test Match at Old Trafford. Anderson-Tendulkar Trophy Day Two : A new look Indian team mix of old and new players with no Rohit, Kohli, Sami and even Shreyas  sitting out on one side and a weak England side on papers on the other side.....but between them stands a Cricketer who has all the qualities to be the best when you think of all the roles one has to play in the field....Captain, Bowler, Batsman, Fielder and the mind game he has mastered....he is none other than Ben Stokes. Another fifer, another milestone reached; single handedly controlling the game for England.  The Stokes power continued even while England were batting and the openers took charge from the 1st ball, scoring majestically over 5 runs an over. The new ball couldn't do any damage and with the sun coming out while home team started, helped the wicket to ease out a more. Crawley who wasn't in great form played confidently and Duckett continued with his form toying with the Indi...