India vs England Highlights 3rd Test, IND vs ENG: Five star Jadeja guide India to record win after Yashasvi's 214

India vs England Live Score 3rd Test Day 4, IND vs ENG: Jaiswal smashes the last ball of the 69th over from Root past backward point. He moves to 113 off 146 with that, Kuldeep at the other end on 27 off 79. The nightwatcher has stayed in the middle for more than half of the first session, which is always an irritating thing for the bowling side, especially when said nighwatcher could have been LBW had they taken a review.

India vs England Live Score 3rd Test Day 4, IND vs ENG: Wow, what happened there! Kuldeep comes down the track and thrashes one to mid-on. Gill sets out for a single but is forced to run back, Stokes is the fielder and he throws it to Hartley. Gill dives but he is gone. There was absolutely no single there and Gill is livid with himself, he knows he has thrown this one away. And sure enough, Jaiswal returns

India vs England Live Score 3rd Test Day 4, IND vs ENG: Dinesh Karthik said earlier on that he got to know from Kuldeep Yadav that the team is looking if Ashwin can return to the Indian team for this Test. As it turns out, they can and here is the BCCI's statement announcing the news: “The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) is pleased to announce the return of R Ashwin to the squad after a brief absence due to a family emergency. Ashwin had to temporarily withdraw from the squad after Day 2 of the 3rd Test in Rajkot to attend to a family emergency. Both R Ashwin and the team management are pleased to confirm that he will be back in action on Day 4 and will continue to contribute towards the team's cause in the ongoing Test match. The team management, players, media and fans have shown immense understanding and empathy, acknowledging the importance of family as a priority. The team and its supporters have stood united in support of Ashwin during this challenging period, and the management is delighted to welcome him back to the field. Ashwin and his family kindly request privacy as they navigate through these challenging times.”

India vs England Live Score 3rd Test Day 4, IND vs ENG: Fourth ball of the 62nd from Hartley, Kuldeep comes dancing down the track and smashes it back over the umpire's head to the boundary. Two dot balls after that and Kuldeep is on 22 off 55, Gill on 85 off 146.

India vs England Live Score 3rd Test Day 4, IND vs ENG: Gorgeous cover drive there from Gill off the last ball of the 59th by Anderson. He moves to 82 off 140 with that, Kuldeep on 15 off 43 at the other end.

IND vs ENG Live Score: India 225/2, lead by 351

India vs England Live Score 3rd Test Day 4, IND vs ENG: Jaiswal seems ready to go, he can be seen padded up in the Indian dressing room balcony. His partnership with Gill was at 155 when he retired hurt yesterday and India will be hoping that it is these two who resume today when a wicket falls.

IND vs ENG Live Score: India 219/2 in 58 overs

India vs England Live Score 3rd Test Day 4, IND vs ENG: Every run that Kuldeep gets will be a source of frustration for England and he has got to 14 now. Half tracker from Hartley to finish the 56th, Kuldeep gets a tiny bit of room and slaps it in front of square.

India vs England Live Score 3rd Test Day 4, IND vs ENG: Now then, we have been talking about Gill getting close to a century but we shouldn't be ignoring Kuldeep. He is just 90 runs away now. Last ball of the 54th, Hartley tosses it up on middle and Kuldeep skips down the track to mow it over wide long-on.

India vs England Live Score 3rd Test Day 4, IND vs ENG: A wave of cheers around the stadium in Rajkot Gill runs a single and India reach the 200-run mark. They lead by 326 runs now Anderson bowling the second over of the day.

India vs England Live Score 3rd Test Day 4, IND vs ENG: All right then, Shubman Gill is on strike, Kuldeep Yadav at the other end. Tom Hartley bowling the first over of the day, 52nd over of the Indian innings. Gill on 65 off 120, India lead by 322.

India vs England Live Score 3rd Test Day 4, IND vs ENG: In the nearly 20 hours that have been played in this Test, 22 wickets have fallen. Seven of those have come in the first hour of the first three days.

India vs England Live Score 3rd Test Day 4, IND vs ENG: Matches in this series have turned around in the first hour of days on a number of occasions, a case in point being yesterday. And so while India are well ahead, England know that they just need a nice little first session collapse to potentially get a target below 350 to chase. This means they can either apply the squeeze in the first hour and make the pressure pay after that, or somehow get all the wickets right here. Both of these things are so much easier said than done, it is a joke, but it is something they have done before in this series.

India vs England Live Score 3rd Test Day 4, IND vs ENG: Siraj was the man who led the way in India reaping the rewards of the squeeze they applied in the first session on Day 3. He finished off with figures of 4/84 and this is what he had to say about what India did yesterday. "We had only four bowlers and we had a responsibility. We knew they would attack so we spoke about sticking together knowing that they would make a mistake. We did not plan anything much, we were waiting for them to make a mistake. I knew the yorker would be a good wicket-taking option. The important role for a bowler is to bowl six dot balls, we know they are not used to playing out six dots in a row," he said.

India vs England Live Score 3rd Test Day 4, IND vs ENG: Jaiswal celebrated his century by leaping and punching the air with his bat - David Warner style. He was suddenly down just a few minutes after that, leading to Sunil Gavaskar to jokingly wonder if the back problem had anything to do with the celebration.

India vs England Live Score 3rd Test Day 4, IND vs ENG: Well, for anyone it would be a dream but for someone who has led England to some of their most famous victories over the course of a career spanning more than a decade now, this might be just another tick and nothing else. Stokes went past Marcus Trescothick in England's all-time run scoring charts across formats yesterday. The England captain has 10,340 runs across formats while Trescothick had 10,340. Joe Root leads the charts of course with 18,901 runs.

India vs England Live Score 3rd Test Day 4, IND vs ENG: Ben Duckett also spoke about how England deserve some credit for the way India, particularly, batted against them, which might be the kind of stretch of logic that has been used to describe the 2023 Ashes as some kind of moral success for them. "When you see players from the opposition playing like that, it almost feels like we should take some credit that they're playing differently than how other people play Test cricket," Duckett told the media during a press conference here. "We saw it a bit in the summer and it's quite exciting to see other players and other teams are also playing that aggressive style of cricket." Hmmm...

India vs England Live Score 3rd Test Day 4, IND vs ENG: Ashwin had said after the second day's play that India were a relaxed bunch despite England being 207/2 at the end of that day's play. "We know four or five can come our way in a session," said Ashwin. Well that is exactly what happened. India kept England under the kosh throughout the first session while dismissing Joe Root, Jonny Bairstow and centurion Ben Duckett. They then reaped the rewards of that in the second, with England going from 290/5 to 319 all out after Lunch.

India vs England Live Score 3rd Test Day 4, IND vs ENG: Duckett defended former England captain and senior batter Joe Root, whose reverse-ramp shot off Jasprit Bumrah resulted in his dismissal, which also sparked a collapse of sorts in the visiting ranks. "I'd be interested to know if those people were against it when he was doing it to Pat Cummins and hitting him for six in the summer. I've no words really for it. It's the same as me playing a reverse sweep and getting caught at point. Options are practised and that shot has been very successful for him over the past year, so next time it may go over the slips," Duckett said.

India vs England Live Score 3rd Test Day 4, IND vs ENG: Ben Duckett was all praise for Yashasvi Jaiswal with a dash of some good old British humour. "He looks like a superstar in the making, unfortunately he's in some very good form at the moment. He's due a couple of low ones," Duckett told the media after the day's play yesterday.

India vs England Live Score 3rd Test Day 4, IND vs ENG: The only fact about Root at the moment is that he has had a terrible series thus far with the bat compared to his lofty standards. Root has scored just 70 runs in the five innings he has batted. On the other hand, Root has bowled a whopping 94 overs in this series, taking seven wickets, one more than James Anderson and Kuldeep Yadav, two more than Axar Patel and three more than Mohammed Siraj.

India vs England Live Score 3rd Test Day 4, IND vs ENG: While there are many who are saying that Bazball has been bad for Root based on how he got out yesterday, it has to be noted that this was just the second time that the former England captain has fallen trying it. Since Ben Stokes has taken over, which means in the Bazball era, Root has scored 1597 runs in just 21 Test matches at an average of 51.51 and a strike rate of 74.76. He has just one half-century but that is because he has a whopping seven centuries. Those stats don't really tell the tale of a batter whose game has been destroyed by Bazball, it says quite the opposite. Safe to say that some red mist and lazy punditry is to blame for the wave of negative coming Root's way.

India vs England Live Score 3rd Test Day 4, IND vs ENG: Joe Root has had a strange series thus far. He is one of the most succesfull overseas batters in India and came here in red hot form that has been going for nearly fouyr years now. However, his highest score this series has been 29 and yesterday was the second time really that he fell trying a reverse scoop. It is the kind of dismissal that can trigger Test match purists, even those who are trying to hardest to not get irked by Bazball as a whole. Sure enough, the English media didn't have too many good things to say about the former captain, all saying with varying degrees of scorn for the batter and the team management that thes fancy Bazball shots don't sit well with Root. The numbers though, contradicts that opinion but who cares about facts when venting their anger, eh? The only kind of criticism that might be acceptable is that Root could have kept that shot for later, considering England were doing well in the first 15 minutes but so desperately needed to not give India any opening at all. Root's dismissal, and that of Bairstow in the next over itself, seemed to have sent Duckett into a shell and it all unravelled for Engalnd after that. Considering how livid Root looked while walking off, it seems he felt the same way.

India vs England Live Score 3rd Test Day 4, IND vs ENG: Yashasvi Jaiswal is the joint fastest to three Test centuries with Virender Sehwag and Sanjay Manjrekar. It is interesting to note that Sehwag had an average of 53.31 and strike rate of 66.83 after 13 Tests. Jaiswal has an average of 62.25 and a strike rate of 65.87 after as many.

India vs England Live Score 3rd Test Day 4, IND vs ENG: If Jaiswal can bat today, India will still only be batting with 10 players. And that is because, Ravichandran Ashwin had to withdraw from this Test match after the second day due to a family emergency.

India vs England Live Score 3rd Test Day 4, IND vs ENG: Yashasvi Jaiswal started clutching his back shortly after surpassing his century. He played an over after getting some attention but then decided to retire hurt. That is the important point though - Jaiswal is retired hurt, not retired out. It means that he can technically come out to bat at any point throughout the innings. There has been no word on the nature of his injury yet and so we don't yet know if it is so bad that he can't come out to bat so, as it stands, he could walk out later in this innings.

India vs England Live Score 3rd Test Day 4, IND vs ENG: India: Yashasvi Jaiswal, Rohit Sharma(c), Shubman Gill, Rajat Patidar, Sarfaraz Khan, Ravindra Jadeja, Dhruv Jurel(w), Ravichandran Ashwin, Kuldeep Yadav, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammed Siraj

England: Zak Crawley, Ben Duckett, Ollie Pope, Joe Root, Jonny Bairstow, Ben Stokes(c), Ben Foakes(w), Rehan Ahmed, Tom Hartley, Mark Wood, James Anderson

India vs England Live Score 3rd Test Day 4, IND vs ENG: Well India turned this ship around so hard yesterday that if it really was a ship and not a metaphorical one, surely it would've capsized. At no point did India look like they could get a foot in for the entirety of the second day and the first 15 minutes of the third. Then Root middled a reverse scoop to Jaiswal's face and the latter did oh so well to hold on. After that, it was one-way traffic. Nothing went England's way, everything went India's and they wasted absolutely no opportunities. Kuldeep Yadav was excellent with the ball, Siraj took four wickets and then Yashasvi Jaiswal and Shubman Gill gave a glimpse of what Indian Test batting's future could look like. At the end of it all, India start Day 4 with a 322-run lead and with a chance to put this game well beyond England's reach.