WATCH: Shardul Thakur targets Shubman Gill for going under bowled in ongoing ENG vs IND 2025 4th Test

India’s bowling wasn’t up to the mark with the new ball in the last hour of the middle session of the second day’s play in the fourth Test of the five-match series against England at Old Trafford in Manchester. The home openers took full advantage of it and drilled over 100 runs at a rate of more than five. It was a pleasant sight for the fans, who had the routine of seeing India’s dominating pace bowling.

At the end of the day’s play, the veteran all-rounder of the side, Shardul Thakur, lashed out at his captain, Shubman Gill, in the press conference for not giving him more overs in the day. Thakur went for 35 runs in his five overs without any success at an economy of seven, but revealed that he could have bowled a couple of more overs.

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‘If you talk about the first game at Leeds, they told me that there were not many scopes to throw the ball at me. It’s generally the captain’s call, and the players don’t have much to say in it. In this match, the way the game has progressed, I could have bowled two more overs. But the game is still a long way off. I try to use the experience and bowl.’ The Mumbai all-rounder revealed in the presser.

Watch: Shardul Thakur targets Shubman Gill for under-bowling him in Eng vs Ind 4th Test

He also highlighted a little on Rishabh Pant’s fitness, where he said, ‘It will call. He didn’t come on the bus today because he was in the hospital. He wasn’t at the ground when we were warming up. It’s a fracture- the news is already out. It was always our plan to make him bat. The medical team did a great job.’

Shardul Thakur cooked Shubman Gill the captain 😭🔥

Even his teammates don’t respect him😂

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— Rohan💫 (@rohann__45) July 25, 2025

India couldn’t break the opening stand for the 166 runs before Ravindra Jadeja used his skills to find the outside edge of a lazy defense from Zak Crawley at the slip corridor for 84 runs in 113 balls.

A few overs later, the debutant Anshul Kamboj got the huge wicket of Ben Duckett on 94, who was trying to cut the short ball but was surprised with its extra bounce to get an outside edge into the hands of the wicket-keeper. England finished the day with 225/2.