Rising India star Washington Sundar has been stranded just short of a maiden Test century in heartbreaking fashion against England in Ahmedabad.<\/p>\n
The talented 21-year-old all-rounder appeared to be cruising towards three figures in the fourth Test on day three as he shared in a crucial eighth wicket partnership of 106 with Axar Patel.<\/p>\n
But what seemed a formality suddenly slipped away as the cricket gods decided it wasn't to be.<\/p>\n
Three wickets fell in five balls as a helpless Washington, one good shot away on 96, watched on in horror from the non-striker's end.<\/p>\n
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Axar was run out for 43 then the lion-hearted Ben Stokes (4-89) trapped Ishant Sharma plumb LBW first ball then clean bowled Mohammed Siraj on his third. <\/p>\n
"Knocked him over and so agonisingly close," former India spinner Murali Kartik said in commentary.<\/p>\n
"Within a matter of minutes he's gone from looking forward to a century to being painfully short of it.<\/p>\n
"Washington Sundar unbeaten on 96…<\/p>\n
"You have to feel for him. It was as if he himself got out, the way he walked away…<\/p>\n
"There will be lots of 'sorry's' towards Washington Sundar."<\/p>\n
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India legend Sunil Gavaskar – who scored 34 Test tons – also felt for the youngster, who was stranded on 85 not out in the first Test against England.<\/p>\n
"The last three wickets falling in only five deliveries so Washington Sundar will have to wait for his first Test century but what an innings he has played," Gavaskar said.<\/p>\n
"It's been a terrific innings and put India in a commanding position."<\/p>\n
Indeed, India claimed a 160-run first innings lead on the back of terrific batting from Washington and the audacious Rishabh Pant (101).<\/a><\/p>\n India leads the series 2-1 and needs to either win or draw the final Test to qualify for the world Test championship final against New Zealand at Lord's in June.<\/p>\n England went to lunch at 0-6 in their second innings as India fans bemoaned a case of 'oh so close.'<\/p>\n https:\/\/twitter.com\/CricCrazyJohns\/status\/1368074388436774918?s=20<\/a>https:\/\/twitter.com\/yashwanth1311\/status\/1368074217195855873?s=20<\/a>https:\/\/twitter.com\/Sakrevathi09\/status\/1368074885247856643?s=20<\/a>https:\/\/twitter.com\/theBhanuPatel\/status\/1368074164607676419?s=20<\/a>https:\/\/twitter.com\/CSK_FanTweets\/status\/1368074422767083521?s=20<\/a><\/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<\/em><\/strong> clicking here!<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Rising India star Washington Sundar has been stranded just short of a maiden Test century in heartbreaking fashion against England in Ahmedabad. The talented 21-year-old […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41560"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41560"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41562,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41560\/revisions\/41562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}