England have battled to keep India in check on day one of the fourth Test at Old Trafford with the tourists sweating over a foot injury to Rishabh Pant<\/p>\n
Rishabh Pant’s retirement through injury slowed India’s progress on day one of the fourth Test against England, with the tourists closing on 4-264 in their first innings as they look to keep the thrilling five-match series alive.<\/p>\n
With England eyeing victory at Old Trafford that would seal a series win with one match to spare, captain Ben Stokes won the toss on Wednesday morning and opted to bowl.<\/p>\n
But the hosts were frustrated as India survived the overcast Manchester conditions, the partnership of KL Rahul and Yashasvi Jaiswal seeing them cruise through to lunch untroubled on 0-78.<\/p>\n
Three wickets in the afternoon session costing just 36 runs, including India skipper Shubman Gill, swung momentum back in England’s favour before tea, however.<\/p>\n
England spinner Liam Dawson picked up his first Test wicket in eight years when he had opener Jaiswal caught for 58.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
“It is nice to contribute to the team early on,” the 35-year-old said.<\/p>\n
“The age I am at, I probably thought Test cricket was gone but to be back is really cool. But it is one wicket, I have done nothing special.”<\/p>\n
As he often does, the entertaining Pant upped the ante after tea by playing a number of flamboyant shots.\u00a0<\/p>\n
But all that came to an abrupt end when he retired hurt on 37, having taken a blow on the foot trying to reverse sweep Chris Woakes.<\/p>\n
Sai Sudharsan’s maiden Test fifty had already taken India past 200.\u00a0<\/p>\n
But, having showed good judgement to England’s short-ball tactics, he lost patience on 61 and flapped at Stokes with Brydon Carse running in to take a simple catch at long leg.<\/p>\n
Reflecting on Pant’s injury, Sudharsan revealed afterwards: “He was in a lot of pain, definitely.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“They have gone for scans and we will probably get to know (how serious it is) tomorrow.<\/p>\n
“He was batting really well today…. it will definitely have consequences (if he is ruled out).<\/p>\n
England could not make any further inroads, though, leaving the Test finely poised going into day two.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"England have battled to keep India in check on day one of the fourth Test at Old Trafford…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17078,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85,83],"class_list":["post-17077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-sports","tag-text"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17077\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}