{"id":19895,"date":"2025-07-25T01:14:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T01:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/19895\/"},"modified":"2025-07-25T01:14:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T01:14:07","slug":"england-recovers-against-india-after-rishabh-pants-heroics-in-fourth-test-at-old-trafford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/19895\/","title":{"rendered":"England recovers against India after Rishabh Pant’s heroics in fourth Test at Old Trafford"},"content":{"rendered":"

A superb 166-run opening partnership between Zak Crawley and Ben Duckett has led England’s recovery in the fourth Test against India at Old Trafford in Manchester.<\/p>\n

England closed day two on 2-225, trailing India by 133 runs.<\/p>\n

A gutsy half-century from the injured Rishabh Pant helped India post 358 in its first innings, with England captain Ben Stokes’s first five-wicket Test haul in eight years helping see off the tourists’ tail.<\/p>\n

Crawley and Duckett moved at a rapid rate before tea to eat into India’s total as England’s reply got underway, but neither could convert their impressive starts into centuries.<\/p>\n

The pair fall for 84 and 94 respectively in the evening session.<\/p>\n

Joe Root (11 not out) and Ollie Pope (20 not out) survived several close calls to see England through to the close, putting the hosts in with a chance of sealing victory in the five-match series with one Test to spare.<\/p>\n

“The boys are happy to be in a good position as a team, we bowled really well this morning,” Crawley told reporters after stumps.<\/p>\n

“I have high standards and I always want more from myself. That has certainly been the case in the last year or so. Days like today make the tougher times worth it more.”<\/p>\n

India dealt blow with Pant’s retirement<\/a><\/p>\n

Rishabh Pant’s retirement through injury slows India’s progress on day one of the fourth Test against England, with the tourists reaching stumps on 4-264.<\/p>\n

Resuming the day on 4-264, Pant appeared in the India dressing room in his whites after retiring hurt on day one.<\/p>\n

He had attempted an audacious reverse scoop shot when on 37<\/a>, before heading to hospital for scans.<\/p>\n

After Ravindra Jadeja (20) and Shardul Thakur (41) returned to the pavilion on day two, Pant received a standing ovation as he surprisingly limped down the steps and onto the field.<\/p>\n

Running between the wickets was difficult, but Pant \u2014 effectively on one leg \u2014 steered India through to lunch on 6-321.<\/p>\n

As play restarted, the battling Pant pulled out the big shots. He slogged Jofra Archer for six before moving past 50, his 18th Test half-century.<\/p>\n

After Stokes had removed Washington Sundar (27) and debutant Anshul Kamboj (duck), Archer ended Pant’s resistance by sending the injured wicket-keeper’s off stump flying for 54.<\/p>\n

“He was in a lot of pain,” Thakur said.<\/p>\n

“But we have seen him do amazing things.<\/p>\n

“Today was just another amazing thing he did for this team. A lot was happening with the ball, so getting the amount of runs we did was not easy.”<\/p>\n

Pant has now amassed the most runs by a wicketkeeper in a series on English soil.<\/p>\n

Reuters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A superb 166-run opening partnership between Zak Crawley and Ben Duckett has led England’s recovery in the fourth…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19896,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[64,63,20341,2129,740,1208,16285,1209,5752,14674,10535,85,20737],"class_list":["post-19895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-ben-duckett","tag-ben-stokes","tag-cricket","tag-england","tag-fourth-test","tag-india","tag-manchester","tag-old-trafford","tag-rishabh-pant","tag-sports","tag-zak-cralwy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19895","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=19895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19895\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}