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 skipper Shubman Gill, Ravindra Jadeja and Washington Sundar all making hundreds before the teams shook hands after tea on the last day.
England still lead this 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.
