India vs England: Ben Stokes takes Indian fielders very lightly, Shreyas Iyer makes him pay big time

However, with Stokes at the crease, nothing could have been taken for granted as the cricket world has seen multiple times what the England player can do. But it wasn’t to be as Ben Stokes himself got himself out in the IND vs ENG 2nd Test.

IND vs ENG 2nd Test: Ben Stokes’ caught napping

Responding to Ben Foakes’ call, Ben Stokes was casually running to the wicket-keeper’s end to complete the single.

His approach seemed casual as he was strolling to the end before calamity struck. Sensing Stokes’ attitude towards running the single, Shreyas Iyer quickly pounced on the ball and hit a direct hit which surprised Stokes. The decision went to the third umpire and Stokes’ casual approach might have actually cost his team the 2nd Test as he was deemed out.

Earlier in the day, Zak Crawley made his second successive fifty of the game but India got five important wickets in the session to reduce England to 194 for six at lunch on day four and close in on a series-levelling win in the second Test here on Monday.

On expected lines, England did not hold back in attacking the Indian spinners who hung in there to get the timely breakthroughs. The visitors still managed to make 127 runs in the session but lost too many wickets.

Kuldeep Yadav dismissed Crawley (73) while Jasprit Bumrah trapped Jonny Bairstow (26) in front at the stroke of lunch to deal a massive blow to England, who still need 205 runs for an improbable win.

Crawley was by far the best batter on show, mixing caution and aggression perfectly before being adjudged lbw off Kuldeep with a close DRS call.

On the sixth ball of his first over, Kuldeep got one to turn back in from middle stump. It seemed the ball was going down leg but DRS showed that it was hitting the middle of the leg-stump.

Ben Stokes, who had not faced a ball, was left stranded at the break.