England and India drew the fourth Test at Old Trafford on Sunday after a fine rearguard action by the tourists.
India, who had been 0-2 in their second innings, finished on 425-4 in reply to England’s first-innings 669, with captain Shubman Gill, Ravindra Jadeja and Washington Sundar all making hundreds before the teams shook hands after tea on the last day.
England still lead the five-match series 2-1 ahead of next week’s finale at The Oval.
This match was a personal triumph for England captain Ben Stokes as he became just the fourth England cricketer to score a hundred and take five wickets in the same Test, his 141 on Saturday following a haul of 5-72 in India’s first-innings 358.
Stokes is now only the third cricketer in Test history to have both scored 7,000 Test runs and taken 200 wickets after outstanding West Indies all-rounder Garfield Sobers and South Africa’s Jacques Kallis.
But he appeared to be in pain while bowling Sunday, repeatedly clutching the top of his leg – a worrying sign for England given the all-rounder’s history of hamstring trouble.
England’s Joe Root, meanwhile, leapfrogged former Australia captain Ricky Ponting into second place in Test cricket’s list of all-time leading run-scorers while making 150 – his 38th hundred at this level.
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