Shubman Gill and Dhruv Jurel guided India to a series-clinching five-wicket win over England on day 4 of the fourth Test on Monday.

Chasing 192 for victory, India slipped to 120-5 however Gill (52) and Jurel (39) placed on an unbeaten stand of 72 to attain the goal in the course of the second session in Ranchi.

“This has been the best Test match I’ve seen in a long time,” commentator Nick Knight stated within the remaining over.

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The win gave India an unassailable 3-1 lead within the five-match sequence after they misplaced the primary Test.

“It’s been a very hard-fought series, so to come on the right side of it feels very good,” India’s skipper Rohit Sharma stated.

“A lot of challenges were thrown at us, but we responded.”

It was the primary sequence defeat for captain Ben Stokes and coach Brendon McCullum since they took cost in 2022 and adjusted England’s fortunes with their attacking philosophy dubbed “Bazball”.

“It was a great Test match, the scoreboard doesn’t give enough credit to the game as a whole, the ebbs and flows,” Stokes stated, including that he “couldn’t be more proud” of his spin bowlers.

“So much credit to our spinners, being exposed to a situation like that at the start of their careers,” Stokes stated.

Gill performed the anchor in his 124-ball knock as he and Jurel, who made 90 in India’s first innings, staved off a mini-crisis when Shoaib Bashir took two wickets in two balls quickly after lunch.

– ‘Under pressure’ –

India nonetheless wanted 72 extra however Gill and Jurel rotated the strike coolly to choose off singles earlier than the previous raised his fifty with two successive sixes off Bashir.

“We were put under pressure… but Jurel came out and took the pressure off, he saw the situation and played accordingly,” Gill stated.

He praised captain Rohit Sharma for his help, saying he “gave us the confidence to go out and play with freedom”.

Jurel hit the profitable runs, punching the air and hugging his associate because the Indian dressing room rose to have fun.

India began the morning strongly with Rohit and Yashasvi Jaiswal extending their in a single day 40-run opening stand to 84.

Joe Root made the breakthrough in his first over of the day, as he induced Jaiswal, on 37, to loop a catch to a diving James Anderson at backward level.

Rohit reached his half-century however fell for 55, caught behind by wicketkeeper Ben Foakes off Tom Hartley’s left-arm spin.

He was initially dominated as stumped, nevertheless it was later modified to caught behind. England’s travelling military of followers then erupted when Bashir, who took his maiden five-wicket haul within the first innings, had Rajat Patidar brilliantly caught by Ollie Pope for a duck to depart India 100-3.

After the interval, Bashir silenced the house followers along with his twin strikes to present England some hope of an unlikely win.

Ravindra Jadeja slapped a full toss to Jonny Bairstow at mid-wicket and Sarfaraz Khan tickled the following ball to Pope at backward short-leg for a duck, however Jurel survived the hat-trick ball.

England had scored 353 all out of their first innings and led by 46 after India’s 307.

– ‘We want to win’ –

Indian spinners Ravichandran Ashwin and Kuldeep Yadav arrange the victory after they shared 9 second-innings wickets to bundle out England for 145 on day three.

England had recovered from 112-5 of their first innings courtesy of Root’s unbeaten 122.

India had been with out tempo spearhead Jasprit Bumrah, who was rested, however the bowling stood up — together with debutant fast Akash Deep, who took three early wickets after England elected to bat.

Anderson reached 698 Test wickets within the match and desires two extra to grow to be solely the third bowler to 700 after Sri Lanka’s Muttiah Muralitharan (800) and late Australia spin wizard Shane Warne (708).

The fifth and remaining Test begins on March 7 within the Himalayan hill city of Dharamsala.

“We turn up to every Test thinking we want to win,” Rohit stated, including he was “confident we will put on a good show” for the final match.