Leeds awaits Bazball chase after India collapse sets up tricky target

India post 364 in their second innings before the hosts reach 21/0 at stumps on Day 4

- Somshuvra Laha

KOLKATA: KL Rahul and Rishabh Pant hit contrasting centuries on the fourth day to set England 371 to win the first Test at Headingley, Leeds. In reply, England batted out six overs for 21/0, setting up this Test for all four results on Tuesday where they have 90 overs to score 350 runs.

This was Pant's second hundred of the game, making him only the second wicketkeeper, after Zimbabwe's Andy Flower (141 and 199* v South Africa - Harare, 2001) to achieve this feat in Tests.

You also know it's a special Test if five Indians have scored hundreds across two innings in an unprecedented feat, that too at Leeds, the theatre of two of the most absurd Test results in history. More invigorating was the calm with which India batted for nearly 100 overs after the day started with the early dismissal of Shubman Gill.

This turnaround, mind you, is barely nine months into the shocking home series loss to New Zealand, followed by a hiding at Australia that had expedited the transition into a younger side. We were told to brace for choppy waters, and yet here India are, daring England to do their thing.