‘We are prepared to work hard for wickets’ – Pujara

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England’s batsmen displayed impressive defensive skill on day four in Visakhapatnam to lift their hopes of a draw. But they still have to play out an entire day on a pitch that is no longer as trustworthy as it was before. There is substantial rough outside the left-hander’s off stump for Ravindra Jadeja to exploit from the Press Box End and R Ashwin has benefited from variable bounce at the Pavilion End.

More importantly, India were able to break through a remarkably stubborn opening stand when Haseeb Hameed was lbw to a grubber. They also dismissed Alastair Cook in the last over of the day and with a minimum of 90.4 more left in the game and 317 runs in the bank, they are confident of going 1-0 up in the series.

“We are happy with the way things went,” Cheteshwar Pujara said at the end of day four. “We got two wickets. We knew that it won’t be easy to get them out but …

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