MANCHESTER: Team India batted for a staggering 143 overs to earn a hard-fought draw in the fourth Test against England at Old Trafford in Manchester. They are two wickets down with no runs on the board as Yashasvi Jaiswal and Sai Sudharsan got out in the first over. But the visitors finished with 425 runs for the loss of four wickets to become the first team to cross the 400-run mark after being 0/2.
They repeated the 42-year-old feat of the Indian team that scored 451 runs against the West Indies at the MA Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai back in 1983 after losing their first two wickets for zero runs. Earlier, the West Indies was the first team to achieve this feat against India in Kanpur in 1958. They managed to score 443 runs for the loss of seven wickets after being reduced to 0/2 by the opposition.
