Shubman Gill accomplished a gutsy hundred after Ben Stokes battled by way of ache to dismiss a well-set Okay L Rahul, leaving India at 223 for four on day 5 of the fourth Test towards England right here on Sunday (July 27, 2025).
Resuming the day at 174 for two with a deficit of 137, India remained on target to attract the sport courtesy a preventing effort from Gill, who introduced up his fourth century of the sequence. The Indian captain fell at the stroke of lunch as the guests nonetheless path England by 88 runs.
Considering India’s backs towards the partitions and sequence on the road, this might be Gill’s most defining century if India managed to save lots of the match and preserve the sequence alive. It would nonetheless be a tricky ask with Rishabh Pant injured and never a lot batting to observe.
Ravindra Jadeja (0 batting) had simply joined Washington Sundar (21 batting off 61) when lunch was taken after Gill’s dismissal. Expecting the ball to return again in, Gill felt for the one from Jofra Archer that formed away, getting a faint exterior edge.
With India behind within the sport, Gill was understandably disenchanted at the time of his dismissal.
The 188-run marathon stand between Gill and Rahul (90 off 230) was lastly damaged when the latter was trapped in entrance by Stokes with a ball that stored a tad low from size.
Soon after, Stokes obtained one bounce to sharply from an analogous size that foxed Rahul, leaving the Indian skipper in a variety of ache.
The rising ball first crashed into Gill’s proper thumb earlier than taking a bit of his helmet.
It was exceptional that Stokes, who was not match sufficient to bowl on day four, managed an eight-over spell on day 5 regardless of discomfort in his proper shoulder and hamstring. Like at Lord’s, he didn’t care a lot about his harm inclined physique to assist the crew’s trigger.
The new ball was taken after the eightieth over and resulted within the wicket of Gill. Jadeja too would have be gone first ball however Joe Root couldn’t maintain on to a tricky likelihood at first slip off Archer.
Liam Dawson and Stokes opened the bowling for England. Left-arm spinner Dawson bowling into the tough challenged Washington and hardly gave away any runs.
