By Admin 
The fourth day of the Test being played between India and England in ‘The Oval’ was affected due to rain. Due to rain, the match had to be stopped before the scheduled time. At the end of the day, England had 339 runs for 6 wickets. On the fifth day, England will need 35 runs to win, while if Chris Woakes does not come to bat due to injury, India would need 3 wickets.
England started the fourth day by 50 runs at the loss of 1 wicket. In the first session, England lost the wicket of Ben Docket and Oli Pope quickly. After this, Joe Root and Harry Brook strengthened the team’s position by sharing 195 runs for the fourth wicket.
Harry Brook got a life from Siraj on 19 runs. He took advantage of that and scored his 10th Test century. Brook scored 111 runs off 98 balls. When the team’s score was 301, he was dismissed as the fourth batsman. Bethel was dismissed for 5 runs. As the sixth wicket, Joe Root was dismissed for 105 runs in 152 balls. This was his 39th century in the Test.
Jamie Smith 2 and Jamie overton are unbeaten at zero at the crease. Krishna, famous for India, has taken 3 wickets, Siraj 2 and Akash Deep has taken one wicket.
Earlier, Team India’s second innings was reduced to 396 runs. After the century of Yashasvi Jaiswal, Ravindra Jadeja and Washington Sundar played a half-century innings of 53-53 runs and took the team’s score to 396 runs.
England took the lead of 23 runs for 247 runs in response to 224 runs of India’s first innings. In this way, England got a target of 374 to win this match.