Moment of Siraj magic leaves shoddy England with mountain to climb
But if so they had reckoned without another piece of magic from Mohammed Siraj, who with the penultimate scheduled delivery of the day floated the perfect yorker past Crawley's posthumous bat-lunge. The bowler, who sank England's first innings below the waterline, leapt high before being mobbed by team-mates.
It leaves England 50 for one — which is effectively 50 for two — needing another 324 to win and facing the likelihood of being pegged back to 2-2 in a series which they had appeared poised to win a number of times. One was when India were rocking at nought for two and still 311 in arrears at Old Trafford, only to escape with a draw. Another was on Friday afternoon when England were 129 for one in reply to India's 224.
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