England v India: Late Indian wickets set up thrilling finale

Test Match Special

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🗓️ 3 August 2025

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

On an action-packed day at the Oval, Jonathan Agnew, Michael Vaughan, Sir Alastair Cook and Deep Dasgupta review the penultimate day’s events.

We hear from Joe Root after centuries from him and Harry Brook helped bring England to within 35 runs of another unlikely victory.

But late Indian wickets mean they need a maximum of four more to win – could we see Chris Woakes bat despite injuring his left shoulder?

And the journalist panel of Stephan Shemilt, Will MacPherson and Nagraj Gollapudi review the series as whole.

Transcript

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0:00.0	BBC sounds, music, radio, podcasts.
0:04.6	This is the TMS podcast from BBC Radio 5 Live.
0:10.4	Hello, I'm Jonathan Agnew.
0:11.9	Welcome to the TMS podcast from the Oval, where the weather sends us into a tantalizing fifth day in the final test.
0:18.6	Ruth plays at that one, he caught behind he is.
0:22.8	He's feathered it through to the keeper
0:24.3	and Presid Krishna has broken this game open.
0:27.7	They've got rid of Joe Root.
0:29.1	He's out for 105 for straight through with himself
0:31.8	at playing at that one.
0:33.4	To come, we'll hear from Joe Root,
0:34.7	who looks back on a day that had everything.
0:37.0	Michael Vaughn, for Alistair Cook andte, and Deep Das Gupta, analyse the day's play,
0:40.7	and we discuss the series as a whole in our final journalist panel of the series.
0:45.3	You're listening to the TMS podcast from BBC Radio 5 Live.
0:50.7	Close of play, 339 for six.
0:53.9	England four wickets in hand, if Chris Wokes is deemed able to bat.
0:58.6	They need 35 more runs to win this game and take a 3-1 victory, or across India, four wickets, maybe only three, to level the series 2-2.
1:09.7	It's been an extraordinary day's play, some wonderful batting between Root and Brook.
1:14.1	They put 195 together in 35 overs, both making hundreds.
1:18.7	Brooke 111, Route 105.
1:23.0	That after Duckett was out for 54, Pope for 27.
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