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[Felix Tito]

With the batsmen remaining there some be more chances of taking 3/4 wickets quickly. Rahane, Ashwin, Saha and Jadeja are all attacking players.

[tate035]

With the batsmen remaining there some be more chances of taking 3/4 wickets quickly. Rahane, Ashwin, Saha and Jadeja are all attacking players.

The pitch is definitely starting to help the bowlers more. My concern is that cook will go all defensive like he has been with Rashid for most of his overs (in the last 3 matches for defo) and Kohli etc will just accumulate 1/2's and the occasional boundary till they end up about 80-100 ahead and then with the pitch being helpful to the bowlers we may just lose the plot and end up losing.
For me cook needs to attack more with our spinners and look to take wickets ASAP before they get to close to out total.

[CrickFreak]

Even though i feel there is not going to be a result in this test match, it will still be an interesting phase. How Cook operates will be important to see. On one hand he wants to attack and take wickets to gain any psychological advantage and on the other hand be defensive and risk another couple of 100s being scored by Indians and gain confidence. Latter is more likely to happen which will not be good for England's confidence and rest of the series.
I would say India is little bit ahead in the sense they can easily come close to England's first innings score. Kohli, Rahane, Ashwin, Saha are all in good form and capable of scoring some big runs and Jadeja can get some quick 20-30.

[Manormanic]

England are on the one hand slightly ahead, in that they have the runs on the board and Kohli's dismissal would really swing things. But... If someone were to win this, it's going to be India. It's just impossible to see how there is time left in the game for England to bowl India out twice and put a big enough lead on the board in between...

[GoodLeave]

Can't believe we're disappointed with a (Probable) draw, when we've spent most of the last 4 weeks expecting India to have our pants down.

Only England fans! 

[Manormanic]

Not disappointed at all. It's been an interesting test this far

[ppccopener]

I think we have played great. !!

Good to see the spinners bowling well. We got runs on the board and have taken some good catches.

Ansari better than I thought and for a left arm spinner and decent bat might be the answer to a few problems?

[Manormanic]

The real revelation with rashid, who bowled much more like he does for Yorkshire today, passing way more questions than any of the other bowlers. Still like him to a few mph quicker but, on that deck against good players of spin, quality.

[Felix Tito]

Cook's bowling changes left a little to be desired today. Rashid probably with his best sustained effort in white clothing, should've bowled a lot more.

[Big Mac]

Rahane looked like a tailender with that judgement of length. Bit of pressure on Ashwin to justify that all-rounder tag here

[Big Mac]

hahaha what a way to go, Kohli trod on his stumps 

[csnew]

Oh dear cook! What an easy drop...luckily its number 11

England have done well to knock India over today and still have a lead. Pretty pointless trying to set up a lead and go for the win. Probably better to bat out the remaining day and a half- get some batting practice and keep India in the field as long as possible

[Northern monkey]

Great innings from ashwin

[northernboy1987]

Could be the making of Rashid as a test cricketer this tour. If he has a good tour and, as others have said, finally bowls more like we see him bowl for Yorkshire and if Moeen continues to bat well at 5, is there a case for simply swapping Ansari for Anderson and going into next summer with 4 seamers and Mo and Rashid sharing the spin duties? Or do we think Rashid will lose his place to Ball or Finn?

[csnew]

After that first over from jadeja, they should get Ashwin on. All of a sudden it seems to be doing a bit