England may be five wickets down and 332 runs behind, but that does not mean they are about to give up their gung-ho ways. “I’ve got a fair feeling our best line of defence will be attack,” said Jimmy Anderson. “The way we’ve got ourselves out of sticky situations in the last few weeks has been by trying to put pressure back on the opposition, and I don’t see this being any different. We want to score, we want to move the game forward, and that’s what we’ll try and do.”
The memory of the way Ben Stokes and Jonny Bairstow played in the second Test against New Zealand is fresh enough that so long as one of them keeps going England will believe, rightly, that they are still in it. India were 98 for five themselves before Rishabh Pant and Ravi Jadeja put on 222 for the sixth wicket.
