{"id":17369,"date":"2025-07-24T01:27:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T01:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/17369\/"},"modified":"2025-07-24T01:27:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T01:27:12","slug":"england-vs-india-rishabh-pant-injury-alters-tight-first-day-of-fourth-test-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/17369\/","title":{"rendered":"England vs India: Rishabh Pant injury alters tight first day of fourth Test"},"content":{"rendered":"

England benefited from an injury to India’s Rishabh Pant on a hard-fought opening day of the fourth Test at Old Trafford.<\/p>\n

Pant had scored 37 in an important stand with Sai Sudharsan when he attempted a reverse sweep at Chris Woakes and was struck on the right foot. After treatment on the field, Pant retired hurt.<\/p>\n

The recalled Sudharsan was making England pay for wicketkeeper Jamie Smith’s drop until he hooked Ben Stokes to long leg for 61.<\/p>\n

That left India 264-4 at the close, with the tourists waiting on the results of a scan on Pant’s injury.<\/a><\/p>\n

England are looking for the win that would seal the series, and captain Stokes took two important wickets after again choosing to field on winning a fourth successive toss.<\/p>\n

Under a near-constant cloudy sky and on a pitch that offered something throughout the day, India dug in – Yashasvi Jaiswal made a watchful 58, KL Rahul a typically correct 46.<\/p>\n

England were arguably a touch short with the new ball, then improved after lunch.<\/p>\n

Chris Woakes was rewarded for a fine spell by an edge off Rahul, left-arm spinner Liam Dawson struck with his seventh ball after eight years out of Test cricket to remove Jaiswal, and Stokes had opposing captain Shubman Gill lbw playing no stroke.<\/p>\n

Sudharsan was put down on 20 and rebuilt with Pant, whose exit was a breakthrough England desperately needed, albeit in unfortunate circumstances for the India wicketkeeper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"England benefited from an injury to India’s Rishabh Pant on a hard-fought opening day of the fourth Test…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16977,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-17369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17369","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=17369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17369\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}