Swashbuckling Duckett leads England fightback
Test Match Special
BBC
4.4 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 16 February 2024
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
One of the great centuries in India?
Ben Duckett’s unbeaten hundred led a breathtaking England counter-attack on the second day at Rajkot. He became the fastest English batter to reach a ton against India, from only 88 balls. England end the second day 207-2, trailing by 238.
Jonathan Agnew, Michael Vaughan and Phil Tufnell discuss Duckett’s remarkable knock and hear from Mark Wood.
Plus, they reflect on Ravichandran Ashwin reaching 500 Test wickets.
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| 0:49.6 | Hello, I'm Jonathan Agnew and welcome to the TMS podcast on another thrilling day of |
| 0:54.1 | Test cricket. Momentum seems to be back with England as Ben Duckett struck one of the great |
| 0:58.9 | overseas centuries to leave them 274 at the close of the second day that's trailing by 238 runs |
| 1:06.8 | after India earlier reached 445. We're going to hear from Mark Wood and get the thoughts of |
| 1:11.9 | Michael Vaughan and Phil Toughnell and discuss |
| 1:14.3 | what makes Ravichandran Ashwin so good as he reaches 500 test wickets. |
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| 1:25.0 | So a quick raise you may of the day then before we get stuck into particularly Ben |
| 1:28.9 | Duckett's extraordinary innings. |
| 1:30.3 | We'll do something remarkable. |
| 1:31.9 | India added 119 for their last five wickets. |
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