Day five: Hameed hits lass fifty as England lead by 163
England’s captain Alastair Cook (R) bumps fists with teammate Haseeb Hameed on a fourth day of a initial Test cricket compare between India and England during a Saurashtra Cricket Association track in Rajkot on Nov 12, 2016.
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RAJKOT: Debutant Haseeb Hameed struck his lass fifty and common an consecutive century partnership with captain Alastair Cook to lift England’s lead over India to 163 runs on day 4 of a initial exam in Rajkot on Saturday.
The 19-year-old Hameed was dominant on 62 during a tighten with Cook on 46 as England reached 114 but loss, probably statute out a awaiting of an India win on a final day.
Hameed, whose relatives issue from India, reached his half-century with a ethereal late cut for 4 off leg-spinner Amit Mishra.
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Right-hander Hameed, a youngest opener to play a exam for England, was positive in his footwork opposite a spinners and rubbed a retreat pitch from a quick bowlers but most trouble.
Leg-spinner Adil Rashid progressing picked adult 4 wickets to assistance a furloughed side boot India for 488 and take a first- innings lead of 49 runs.
India’s Ravichandran Ashwin done 70 to repudiate England a bigger advantage after a hosts mislaid dual wickets in a early event and were reduced to 361 for six.
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He along with wicketkeeper Wriddhiman Saha (35) combined 64 for a seventh wicket to revoke a deficit.
Resuming on 319-4, Kohli and Rahane seemed untroubled, picking adult singles and twos as good as occasional boundaries.
Rahane missed a true smoothness personification opposite a line to left-arm spinner Zafar Ansari and was bowled for 13, finale their 30-run partnership.
Kohli looked in excellent hold and struck frail bounds in his 40 before a right-hander was out strike wicket, his behind leg brushing a stumps as he attempted to lift a Rashid delivery.
The 28-year-old stood in dishonesty before trudging off with his group on 361 for six.
Saha survived shaken moments during a start of his innings and saw an corner off Ben Stokes go between wicketkeeper Jonny Bairstow and Cook during slip.
He was also strike on a griddle of his helmet by quick bowler Chris Woakes before removing an corner to Bairstow off Moeen Ali.
Rashid took a wickets of internal child Ravindra Jadeja and Umesh Yadav to take his innings total to four.
England captain Cook forsaken series 11 batsman Mohammed Shami during trip off Stuart Broad and India adding another 29 runs for a final wicket.
Ashwin, who strike 7 boundaries, was a final male out when he holed out during low midwicket, giving off-spinner Moeen his second wicket of a innings.
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