Eng 216-4 (70 overs) vs India |
Scorecard
Siraj with another over and Root is on strike. After five dot balls, Root pulls the shortish delivery to fine leg and gets a single.
Washington Sundar continues. Root flicks the full delivery on off stump to leg but the ball goes straight to the fielder.
He then picks up a quick single through wide of mid-on. After two dot balls, Stokes clips one behind square leg and gets a couple.
A single through sweeper cover to end the over. Four runs come off it.
Nitish Kumar Reddy, India's most successful bowler so far, is back into the attack.
Round the wicket to Stokes and he leaves alone a delivery outside off.
Four! Angling down the leg and Stokes glances it to fine leg for four runs.
Two dots follow as Stokes leaves two good length deliveries well outside off alone.
Two runs (leg byes) but the bowler and the 'keeper appeal for lbw. After discussing with Jurel, Gill goes for the review. The on-field decision is not out. The ball would have clipped the leg stumps, show the ball tracker, but the on-field decision stays.
A dot to end the over. 6 runs come off it.
Sundar with another over and Root is on strike. After a dot, he flicks one to deep backward square and gets off the strike.
Stokes then plays out three dot balls before cutting one to sweeper cover for a single.
Tidy over from Sundar as just 2 runs come off it.
Root is on 75 off 152 balls while Stokes is batting on 28 off 56 deliveries.
Reddy to Stokes and he punches it to mid-off with soft hands. No run.
Reddy comes over the wicket and Stokes comes forward and defends the full delivery outside off.
A single through mid-wicket to end the over.
