Indian cricket team is just one wicket away to clinch a brilliant victory against the hosts England in the third Test at Trent Bridge (Nottingham). On Wednesday morning, the fifth and final day of the Test match, the visitors will look for an early wicket to seal the game and reduce their trail in the five-match Test series by the 2-1 margin.

Chasing a mammoth 521-run target, England began the day on their overnight score 23/0. Opener Keaton Jennings (13) was dismissed on the very first over of the day, while the other opener Alastair Cook followed him soon on 17 runs.

Later, skipper Joe Root and young Ollie Pope also lost their wickets cheaply as England was struggling on 62/4. After that, Ben Stokes and Jos Buttler fought desperately and provided the long 169-run partnership for the fifth wicket.

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Both of them batted brilliantly as Buttler completed his maiden Test hundred while Stokes steadily completed his half-century. However, their battling scenario changed quickly after India took their second new ball where the Indian comeback pacer Jasprit Bumrah provided a furious spell.

Buttler lost his wicket on 106 while the injured wicketkeeper-batsman scored a golden duck. At next, Stokes was dismissed on 62 runs while Chris Woakes (4) was the next batsman to return to the pavilion. Adil Rashid and Stuart Broad partnership tried to stretch the innings as they put a 50-run partnership before Broad lost his wicket on 20 runs.

Rashid carried on his innings with the last batsman James Anderson till the last ball of the day and forced to extend the game for the fifth day. While the last wicket partnership has been unbroken on 20 runs, Rashid is not out on 30 runs while Anderson stays in the crease on 8 runs.

At the end of the day four, England was batting on 311/9 as they require 210 more runs to win while India needs only one more wicket to seal the game.

Indian pacer Jasprit Bumrah (5/85) has picked up five wickets in the fourth innings while Ishant Sharma (2/70) has bagged two wickets and Mohammed Shami (1/76) & Hardik Pandya (1/22) have got one wicket each at the same time.

Some important stats of day 4 of the Trent Bridge Test between England and India

• First time in Test cricket history when all the top five batsmen from both teams scored in double digits in all four innings of a Test match.
• English batsmen Ben Stokes and Jos Buttler put a brilliant 169-run partnership for the fifth wicket. It is England’s fourth highest fifth-wicket Test partnership against India.
• 6 English batsman Jos Buttler scored his maiden Test century as he scored 106 runs in the fourth innings of the Test match. Buttler becomes the third cricketer to score a century at no.6 or lower in the fourth innings of a Test match against India. Bangladesh wicketkeeper-batsman Mushfiqur Rahim and former South African cricketer AB de Villiers are the other batsmen to achieve this feat against India.
• English wicketkeeper-batsman Jonny Bairstow scored a golden duck. He is the first English wicketkeeper-batsman to score a golden duck against India in the home Test. In overall, he is the third English wicketkeeper-batsman to score a golden duck against India, after Alec Stewart and Richard Blakey.
• Indian Test debutant wicketkeeper Rishabh Pant has picked up a total of seven catches in this match. It is the joint most number of catches taken by a Test debutant wicketkeeper. Meanwhile, Pant also becomes the most number of catches taker as an Indian Test debutant wicketkeeper, while the previous record was five.
• Indian cricketer KL Rahul and the wicketkeeper Rishabh Pant both have picked up seven catches each in this Test match. It is the first time when two players from the same team have picked up more than five catches each in a Test match.
• English cricketer Stuart Broad (3,008 Test runs), who has also picked up 427 Test wickets, has completed his 3,000 Test runs. He becomes the first English cricketer and fifth overall cricketer to score 3,000+ Test runs and also to pick up 400+ Test wickets.
• After Hardik Pandya (5/28) during England’s first innings, another Indian pacer Jasprit Bumrah (5/85) claimed a five-wicket haul during the fourth innings of this Test match. It is the third time when two different Indian bowlers have claimed the five-wicket hauls in a Test match on the English soil.