[Sport] England batting collapse has India eyeing series victory as they close in on fourth Test win in Ranchi

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An almighty England batting collapse on day three of the fourth Test in Ranchi has India eyeing a series victory as they cruised through to the close of play on 40-0 in pursuit of 192 to win.

England, bowled out for 145 in their second innings, lost their last seven wickets for 35 runs, Ravichandran Ashwin (5-51) claiming his first five-for of the series and the 35th of his storied Test career.It was he who started the rot with the wickets of Ben Duckett (15) and Ollie Pope (0), out for a pair, to consecutive deliveries. The off-spinner added the key scalp of Joe Root (11) to an unfortunate lbw decision on DRS - the ball shown to be mere millimetres from pitching outside leg stump - and later wrapped up the tail.

Zak Crawley (60) and Jonny Bairstow (30) had punctuated the Indian bowlers' dominance with a couple of decent cameos, the unpredictable Ranchi surface looking fairly benign in spells and utterly unplayable in others.

It was very much the latter when Kuldeep Yadav (4-22) came into the attack and found prodigious turn and variable bounce to trigger England's collapse with the wickets of Crawley and the skipper Ben Stokes (4), both bowled, just before tea.

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