Marcus Trescothick admits that a draw would be a good result for England, because they want them to deliver the world -running run -but India is not worried
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- England will resume after being set an almost impossible target of 608
- Zak Crawley, Ben Duckett and Joe Root all fell during the fourth evening
- But Marcus Trescothick said there would be no question of playing for a draw
Marcus Trescothick admitted that a draw would be a good result for England afterwards India Place itself in a dominant position in the second test in Edgbaston.
England will resume on day five and still need 536 points to achieve a World Recordrun pursuit of 608, but with only seven wickets intact after India Zak Crawley, Ben Duckett and removed Joe Root On the fourth evening.
“When the situation is a challenge, it is natural (drawing) (a good result),” said Trescothick.
“We are not stupid enough to understand that you have to win or lose – there are three results in a game, but we have done a number of things in our time that show that we were different from what was done earlier,” England’s Batcoach added.
But Trescothick insisted that there would be no play for a draw in the dressing room.
‘We don’t use that kind of language, but we are not naive enough to know that it is a very challenging total. Are you just going into your bunker and do you dig it out? Some players can do that, “he said. ‘We always try to be as positive as possible.

England will still need 536 runs to beat India in the second test in Edgbaston

Zak Crawley, Ben Duckett and Joe Root all fell on the fourth evening during a huge chase

Batting coach Marcus Trescothick from England admitted that a draw would be a good result
‘We appreciate that it is a lot of runs to try to score. I don’t think we have seen scoring rates so quickly in a day, so it will of course be a challenge. But we probably still have about 10 to 15 overs of the balls at the most difficult point before it gets soft, and then we will see how we go from that moment, really. ‘
In the meantime, Morne Morrel, the bowling coach in India, insisted that they were not worried about England, who possibly pursued the target, despite a strange late explanation by Shubman Gill, with some showers prediction for Sunday.
‘Worried? Not really, “he said. “If a team scores 500 plus on the last day, they deserve to win,” Morrel added.
‘It will definitely be an exciting day of cricket. Harry Brook said in the media that they are going to chase or go to everything or everything we have set for them. They attack players. That is the Cricket brand they want to play.
“They can probably try it for a while and then reassess it again, but I think we have an exciting day of cricket.”
From Saturday evening, Edgbaston sold 15,000 tickets for day five, with tickets priced at £ 25 for adults and £ 5 for juniors.
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