Sometime later, after this Test match, Alastair Cook and their team manager will really have to thank their stars for having a player of Joe Root’s calibre. He proved his worth with a knock that gave England a lead of 22 runs against India on day four at Mohali. His knock of 78 was the only positive factor in the England innings as they were 156/7 at lunch.

However, he seemed to running out of partners as Gareth Batty was out for a duck with a deceptive delivery from Ravindra Jadeja. Jos Buttler too had a short stay of 18 deliveries scoring 18 runs before falling to Jayant Yadav. But, out came Haseeb Hameed and partnered Root till the latter fell to Jadeja with Ajinkya Rahane took a splendid catch.

Brief scores:

India 417 trail England 283 & 156/7 (Joe Root 78; Ravindra Jadeja 2/39, Ravichandran Ashwin 3/41) by 22 runs