There were moments when England looked incredibly threatening to snatch the victory from India in the fourth Test match in Ranchi, but Shubman Gill and Dhruv Jurel with their solid 72-run stand sealed the victory for India on day four on Monday. With the win, India took a massive 3-1 unassailable lead against England in the five-match Test series. 

England at times gave India glimpses of their brilliance by dismissing three batters Sarfaraz Khan, Ravindra Jadeja and Rajat Patidar for 16 runs, but Ben Stokes’ men remained unsuccessful in breaking the solid partnership between Shubman Gill and Dhruv Jurel. England's rookie spinners Shoaib Bashir and Tom Hartley frustrated Indian batters at times, exploiting the conditions very well. Speaking after the match, Ben Stokes was proud of the team for the way they threw challenges at India. 

"I think it was a great test match. If you look at the scoreboard, India win my five wickets, I don't think it really gives enough credit to the game as a whole. The amount of ebbs and flows, every single day that happened, and I've got to give so much credit to our spinners, Tom Hartley and Shoaib Bashir. To come out and put in that performance throughout the whole test match, but in particular today, being exposed in situations like that at such an early start of their career, I mean, incredible. I couldn't be more proud of those two in particular, but obviously very proud of the team throughout this whole week and what we've thrown at India,” Ben Stokes said during the post-match presentation. 

Indian spinners Ravichandran Ashwin and Kuldeep Yadav did not allow England batters to unleash their aggressive approach on them, taking them out at regular intervals to debilitate England’s rock-solid batting attack. R Ashwin claimed five wickets, while Kuldeep Yadav returned with four wickets to bowl out England for 145 in their second innings. 

"I think we've been we've been good in periods. If we look at yesterday, when we had our turn with bat, I think - I don't want to say impossible, because I don't think anything is impossible. But that was incredibly hard yesterday, when you get conditions against Ashwin, Jadeja and Kuldeep like that. Scoring becomes very, very hard, especially when you want to eke the game out as long as we wanted to do,” Stokes said.

"We didn't think the pitch was going to get any better, and I think we've seen that today. So look, I think the way in which the Indian spinners operated yesterday made it incredibly hard for us to score but also to rotate the strike. That little period there was very, very tough.”