It looks like another draw may be on the cards when India and England resume the fourth Test in their series. Join The Roar for live scores from Day 3 of the match, starting from 3pm AEDT.
So far this five-match series has delivered a draw and two wins to India on home soil, meaning that with two fixtures left undecided even a draw here will clinch a series victory for them.
The first match was simply never likely to see a result as both teams held resolute with the bat, and even after England declared in their second innings with seven wickets in hand India still came nowhere near the total to chase of 310.
India were far stronger in the second and third matches however, winning them by 246 runs and eight wickets respectively.
In this fourth Test England continued the pattern of big innings – they went in to bat first and brought up a total of 400 runs before their final wicket fell.
Opener Keaton Jennings was the hero of the innings with a knock of 112, but they also saw valuable contributions from Jos Buttler (76), Moeen Ali (50) and Alistair Cook (46).
Ravi Ashwin took six wickets for the homeside conceding 112 runs, while Ravindra Jadeja took the other four.
India came in to bat and put up 146 runs before stumps on Day 2, losing only a single wicket in that time, belonging to Lokesh Rahul, bowled by Moeen Ali for 24 runs.
That leaves them a hefty 254 runs behind the English total but with nine wickets in hand.
Unless the English bowling attack is able to skittle the Indian batting order – and it has not had much success attempting to do so during this series – then a draw really does seem like the likely result.
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