India v England: Ben Duckett out late on day three after vacationers set 399 to win

England opener Zak Crawley plays a shot

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Zak Crawley will resume on 29 not out on day four
Second Test, Visakhapatnam (day three of five):
India 396 (Jaiswal 209; Anderson 3-47) & 255 (Gill 104; Hartley 4-77)
England 253: (Crawley 76; Bumrah 6-45) & 67-1
England need 332 more runs to win
Scorecard

England lost Ben Duckett late on day three after being set an enormous 399 to beat India in the second Test in Visakhapatnam.

Duckett made 28 in a stand of 50 with Zak Crawley before offering a bat-pad catch off Ravichandran Ashwin.

Crawley remains on 29, alongside the promoted Rehan Ahmed on nine, with England 67-1 and in need of 332 more runs for another astonishing victory.

India were put into a position from which they are favourites to level the series by a classy century from Shubman Gill.

Amid some England excellence with the ball in the morning session, Gill could have been dismissed three times before he reached 20, but survived to make 104 and help India to 255 in their second innings.

Despite giving up a first-innings deficit of 143,…

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