Rohit and Rahul together have bailed India out in the first innings, but Kohli, Pujara and Rahane will need a big score under their belt before they leave Lord’s.
Former Indian all-rounder Ravi Shastri has been the coach of the Virat Kohli-led India cricket team since 2017. Although Kohli and Shastri in tandem have led Team India to great heights, including the No. 1 ranking in both Test and One-Day Internationals (ODIs), they have failed to win a single ICC event in these five years.
India were well placed to claim a first Test win at Trent Bridge, needing 157 more runs with nine wickets in hand before rain saw the final day abandoned
England arrived for the high-profile encounter on the back of a steady stream of limited-overs cricket over India; several of the top seven had not played any first-class cricket since their tame defeat by New Zealand in June.
Having won the toss, England were in complete shambles, at 0-1, which later turned to 138-3 before a landslide crash meant that they only could get to 183 runs in their first innings despite Root’s 64. India in reply, at stumps, are 21/0, still 162 runs behind in the first innings in Nottingham.
England batsman Ollie Pope expects someone to “step up” and fill the void left by all-rounder Ben Stokes in the five-match Test series against India.
It is not my job to announce the winner
Rohit Sharma on being asked if England were rightly awarded the World Cup title in 2019