England 2nd inns 196-3 (43 ovs); Target: 374 |
Scorecard
Prasidh to start proceedings with the ball after lunch. Brook is on strike. A full-toss and Brook pushes it to deep square leg for a single.
Root guides the next delivery to gully for another single.
A dot later, Brook hits back-to-back boundaries. First, through mid-wicket off a ball straying down the leg and the next a streaky cut between first and second slip.
Follows it up with a single through deep extra cover. 11 come off the over.
England now need less than 200.
Siraj is back into the attack. Brook pushes one to mid-on and gets a single.
A good length delivery outside off follows and Root lets it go.
Four! Root leans forward and places a good length, wider delivery between gully and deep backward point.
Follows it up with a quick single through mid-off.
Two dots to end the over. 6 come off it.
Prasidh continues and Root punches one to mid-wicket and gets off the strike.
Brook then taps one toward backward point and gets a single to complete his fifty off 37 deliveries. He rode his luck but these are valuable runs for England.
A single through mid-on gets him back on the strike.
Two dots later, Brook punches one through backward point for a brace.
Five come off the over. England now need 188 runs.
Siraj continues and Root is beaten under-edge off the in-swinging delivery.
Another dot later, Root drives one through mid-wicket for a boundary. Runs have started to come thick and fast and India desperately are in search of a wicket here.
Root sees off the rest of the over. Four runs off it.
And finally India go for spin as Washington Sundar comes into the attack.
Brook pushes the full delivery drifting onto the middle stump down the ground for a single.
Root then pushes the next to long-on again and gets another single.
A dot later, Brook sits back and cuts one through deep extra cover for a boundary.
Two dots follow. Six come off Sundar's first over.
England now need 178 runs.
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