by The operators Zak Crawley and Ben Duckett held firmly with an uninterrupted position of the century against an attack led by Jasprit Bumrah to give England the hope of a remarkable victory last day during the first test against India on Tuesday.
England was 117-0 at lunch in Headingley on Tuesday, needing 254 other points to reach a goal of 371, with Crawley 42 not released and undefeated Duckett on 64.
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The closest India came to separate the pair was just before the interval when Bumrah, in his second spell, dropped an exceptionally hard low, the left taken and the chance of Crawley’s chance.
If England reaches their objective, it will be just behind its record prosecution of the fourth round of 378 against India in Edgbaston three years ago.
And it would be the second highest prosecution of a test in Headingley, exceeding their 362-9 against Australia in 2019 when the current invainly century of Captain Ben Stokes obtained a superb victory to an west of ashes.
England resumed 21-0-needing 350 additional points to go 1-0 in this five-game series.
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Crawley (12 steps out) and Duckett (nine steps out) were faced with the intimidating task of facing Bumrah, the best -classified and fresh test bowling player from five -track transport in the first rounds, in covered conditions.
It was not long before Bumrah obtained a bullet for Jag in front of the outside edge of the Duckett bat.
But India wasted an exam when Mohammed Siraj tried to reverse an LBW verdict in favor of Crawley, on the 21st when the reruns indicated that the ball would have missed a leg.
The openers only managed 42 points in the first 12 Overs on Tuesday – a relatively calm race rate at the aggressive time of “Bazball” in England.
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But they refused India a breakthrough during a session where they scored 96 points in 24 overs.
England collected the other members of the attack on India while the Gaucher Duckett led and pulled Prasidh Krishna for two limits on the way to fifty-ball at 66 bullets, including eight four.
India Rishabh Pant had only become the second window to mark two hundred in a test when it was 118 Sunday to follow its first blow 134.
But, despite five individual centuries in this match, India would have been in an even stronger position if it had not undergone any collapses of 7-41 and 6-31 at the rear of each round.
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