Stokes negotiated 121 balls for 55 until he was trapped by Washington Sundar in the middle session — the most prosperous session for England as it scored 70 runs for the loss of two wickets.<\/p>\n
Medium-pacer Mohammed Siraj trapped the dangerous Joe Root on 5 and Jonny Bairstow on 28 to reduce England to 78-4 just after lunch, and Stokes was next out.<\/p>\n
https:\/\/twitter.com\/MichaelVaughan\/status\/1367368894927757315?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw<\/a><\/p>\n Ollie Pope, with 29, and Dan Lawrence, with 46, shared a 45-run stand until Ravichandran Ashwin claimed three wickets after tea. Left-armer Axar Patel cleaned up with 4-68, just missing a 5-for for a fourth straight innings.<\/p>\n India's reply started with Shubman Gill lost lbw off the third ball to James Anderson. Cheteshwar Pujara, on 15, and Rohit Sharma, 8, saw the home team to stumps.<\/p>\n Earlier, England lost both openers within the first two overs to Patel. Patel took 11 wickets in the 10-wicket win in the third test, and was immediately successful when captain Virat Kohli introduced spin in only the sixth over.<\/p>\n Patel knocked back the stumps of Dom Sibley (2) off his second ball, and Zak Crawley (9) chipped a simple catch to mid-off in Patel's second over.<\/p>\n Siraj replaced Jasprit Bumrah \u2014 unavailable for personal reasons \u2014 and brilliantly set up Root's dismissal with a sharp in-swinger to trap the skipper as England slipped to 30-3 inside the first hour.<\/p>\n Bairstow and Stokes counterattacked to reach lunch at 74-3. But Siraj claimed both of them.<\/p>\n Stokes looked comfortable against spin, welcoming Ashwin with a straight six and reached his half-century with an authoritative reverse swept boundary against Patel. But he was undone by Sundar, who bowled around the wicket to the left-hander.<\/p>\n Patel, 4-68, and Ashwin, 3-47, struck at regular intervals to leave England with a below-par total.<\/p>\n A win or draw for India will also send it into the world test championship final against New Zealand in June.<\/p>\n A win for England would complicate matters for India and help Australia.<\/p>\n For a daily dose of the best of the breaking news and exclusive content from Wide World of Sports, subscribe to our newsletter by<\/strong><\/em> clicking here<\/strong><\/em><\/a>!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n