I loved the way Kuldeep bowled today, he was brilliant, the way he changed the trajectory, change of pace, the dip he got - I think he's double the bowler now. I took away a 5-wicket haul from him. It was hard on him yesterday, we sent him to bat early, but he showed a lot of technique and guile, we batted almost the entire first session. We would have taken a deficit of 70-80 runs when we went back to the hotel yesterday, we would have taken it. Both Rohit and Jaiswal have started really well and we are confident of chasing the score down. It has been a wonderful career so far and I've cherished every moment.
You know me very well Ravi Bhai, when we were asked as to who wanted to start, I put my hand up. I do enjoy bowling with the new ball. I had to go back, rewire the way I think about the game, the way I drop the ball on the pitch, I came to know that it doesn't have the bite, it was hitting the shin off the pitch. So, I had to go back and mentally readjust, had to fire the ball quicker. My knee has been acting out, but I had a bit of warm-up, I didn't want to give runs as we're batting last, any runs saved is a bonus.
Set a victory target of 192, India reached 40 for no loss at stumps on the third day of the fourth Test against England on Sunday.
India will take an unassailable 3-1 lead in the five-match series if they knock off the required 152 runs on Monday.
At close of play, skipper Rohit Sharma and Yashasvi Jaiswal were batting on 24 and 16 respectively.
Senior off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin (5/51) and left-arm wrist spinner Kuldeep Yadav (4/22) shared nine wickets between them to run through the England line-up in their second innings on a pitch offering the slow bowlers enough help.
England were bowled out for 145 in their second essay.
Before the Ashwin-Kuldeep duo got down to bamboozle England with their turn, bounce and guile, young wicketkeeper-batter Dhruv Jurel showed tremendous game awareness on way to a fine 90-run knock.
Jurel added 76 runs for the eighth wicket with Kuldeep (28) to lift India from a tricky 177/7 and then another 40 runs with Akash Deep to help his side close in on 300.
India's first innings ended at 307, giving the visitors a lead of 46 runs.
Most five-fers in Tests
67 Mutiah Muralitharan (133 Tests)
37 Shane Warne (145)
36 Richard Hadlee (86)
35 R Ashwin (99)
35 Anil Kumble (132)
India fought back with wickets at regular intervals as England's lead surged to 166 runs at tea on the third day of their ongoing fourth Test on Sunday.
Ravichandran Ashwin (3/48) took three wickets in quick succession to peg England back but a fine knock of 60 (91 balls, 7 fours) from opener Zak Crawley led the charge for the visitors, who have an upper hand in the contest.
England lost opener Ben Duckett (15), Ollie Pope (1), Joe Root (11) and skipper Ben Stokes (4) within the session's play to reach 120/5 at tea.
Kuldeep Yadav (2/10) also chipped in with a couple of wickets while Ravindra Jadeja was tad unlucky with a few decisions not going his way.
Earlier in the day, India were bowled out for 307 in their first innings with Dhruv Jurel narrowly missing out on his maiden century, falling for 90 from 149 balls with six fours and four sixes.
England's scores at the fall of fifth wicket this series
Hyderabad: 125 & 163
Vizag: 159 & 194
Rajkot: 260 & 50
Ranchi: 112 & 120
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