Who Said What? What did Shubman Gill & Ben Stokes say after ENG vs IND, 4th Test?

India and England settled for a draw in the fourth Test at Old Trafford in Manchester as the Anderson-Tendulkar Trophy is still tilted towards England with a 2-1 lead.

Moving into the details of the fourth Test, India batted first after losing the toss. They posted a dominating total of 358 runs in 114.1 overs with Sai Sudharsan (61), Yashasvi Jaiswal (58), and Rishabh Pant (54) scoring important knocks. Ben Stokes scalped a five-wicket haul.

In response, England went on to score 669 runs in 157.1 overs to take a humongous lead. Joe Root was exceptional with his 150-run knock, while Ben Stokes smacked 141 runs. Zak Crawley (84), Ben Duckett (94), and Ollie Pope (71) also proved their worth.

In the third innings, Indian batters scored 425/4 in 143 overs as the game concluded in a draw. While KL Rahul smacked 90 runs, Shubman Gill scored 103 with Washington Sundar and Ravindra Jadeja hitting unbeaten centuries.

That said, let’s take a look at who said what after England vs India, 4th Test.

Indian captain, Shubman Gill:

“Extremely pleased with the batting effort. Past couple of days we were put under tremendous pressure. It's all about taking the wicket out of the equation. Day 5 wicket, something is happening, every ball is kind of an event. Wanted to take it ball by ball and take the game as deep as possible, which is what we spoke about. 

We thought they (Jadeja and Sundar) batted brilliantly, they were in their 90s, we thought they deserved a century there (about the decision to not shake hands). Every match going till the last session on the last day. So many learnings. Each Test match teaches you something different. It has taught us a lot as a group. 

Hopefully we can win the next match and draw the series. Honestly, it doesn't matter how many runs you've scored in the past. Every time you walk wearing the whites of the country, there are some jitters. That tells how much I care playing for the country and how much I love this game. Everytime I bat, I want to play my best and I want to enjoy my batting as much as I can. 

In the first innings, we did post a good total. But a lot of our batters did get set. Important on these wickets that if one or two batters if they go deep, they go big. You can really take the game away from the opposition. Unfortunately for us in the first innings it didn't happen. We were not able to convert those starts into big ones. 

But pleased with the way we were able to do that in the second innings. Will have to wait and see (about Bumrah) in the Oval Test match. As long as we're winning the match (at the Oval), I don't really care about the toss.”

England captain and POTM, Ben Stokes:

“I think when you have a good game as an all-rounder, you sort of assess how that goes by the result at the end of the game. Yeah, obviously I'll give this all back if we were on the right side of the result that we wanted. (On how his body is feeling at the moment) It's been a big five, six weeks. I'll always try and give everything that I possibly can and you know try and.. I don't know.. run through a brick wall... I asked the guys up there to run through a brick wall for the team and I'll always try and do the same to try and lead by example in that sense but yeah bowling, being out in the field all that kind of stuff it is tough work but yeah pretty sore. (On when he picked up the shoulder niggle) Yeah, it's just that workload, a lot of these things, to be honest. 

Obviously you got through a fair few amount of overs. Yeah, just everything obviously starts creeping up on you. But look, I'll keep trying, keep going and you know. As I always say to all the bowlers, pain is only an emotion. (On not being able to force a win) I think as the game progressed, I think we've seen the wicket sort of become easier and easier to bat on. I think as the game got deeper and deeper, I mean, you look at how difficult it was for the right-handers on that wicket, particularly like this morning, the variable bounce. 

And then it just didn't seem like there was that inconsistency of bounce to the left-handers. You got to give a heap load of credit for the way that Washington and Jadeja came in and played there and they were obviously under a lot of pressure. So to put that partnership together like they did there, I've got to give them a lot of credit.

(On England's batting coming good) Yeah, I thought Zak Crawley and Ben Duckett's opening partnership was incredibly crucial in the way that we could lay the foundation for the game. That opening partnership, the way that they took the Indian attack on, the rate that they managed to score at, it allowed us to be able to go right with, we're going to try and bat once and then look to hopefully nowl India out. 

It was a great start yesterday with two wickets in the first over, but it was one of those wickets, if you got in, you felt like you were going to be the one to make a mistake to get out. And yeah, it's been a back and forth series so far. We've been throwing punches in, they've been throwing punches back at us and it's just been really high quality cricket. Two very good teams and I've got to give credit to the way that India came out here and performed under the pressure that they were. 

(On how tough is it to captain on a wicket like this?) Yeah, it is. It's one of those pitches where you sort of, feel in moments that this is where the game is going to be broken open massively. Obviously getting that KL wicket this morning, very early on, brings us back into it, everyone starts perking up a bit more. 

But you always knew that, you know, the quality that India have, if they were able to get themselves in, they were going to be hard to dislodge and they proved that. When you're bowling on day five and you've got to move away to different plans, different fields, different ways of trying to make wickets, different ways of making batsmen out there in the middle uncomfortable. And we threw absolutely everything at them and they were able to, you know, live up to the pressure that was of another day five test match.

(On India delaying the draw) Yeah, I think all the hard work was done by India. They both (Washi and Jadeja) played incredibly well and it got to that point where there was obviously only one result and there was absolutely no chance I was going to risk any of my big fast bowlers through injuries with one more game to go. 

Dawsy (Dawson) just bowled so many overs this game his body started to get a little bit tired and started to cramp up in the legs so I wasn't risking any of my frontline bowlers for that last half an hour. (Will England field a different bowling attack for the 5th Test?) Yeah, look, I think even before this test match we got into it, obviously there were those conversations around how much effort and energy has gone in, especially from the bowling department. 

Another quick turnaround before The Oval, so we'll have to use these few days wisely and we'll just have to check up on everyone and see how they're going. We're very lucky at the moment that we've got a battery of fast bowlers who we can call at any point in time, so it'll be assessed over the next couple of days and then we'll make that decision.”

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