Spinners strike as India close in on big win

Match Info
Match IND vs ENG, 2nd Test, England tour of India, 2021
Date Saturday, February 13, 2021 - Tuesday, February 16, 2021
Toss India won the toss and opt to bat
Time 9:30 AM
Venue MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai
Umpires Nitin Menon, Virender Sharma
Third Umpire Anil Kumar Chaudhary
Match Referee Javagal Srinath
India Squad
Playing
Rohit Sharma, Shubman Gill, Cheteshwar Pujara, Virat Kohli (c), Ajinkya Rahane, Rishabh Pant (wk), Axar Patel, Ravichandran Ashwin, Kuldeep Yadav, Ishant Sharma, Mohammed Siraj
Bench
Mayank Agarwal, Washington Sundar, Shahbaz Nadeem, Jasprit Bumrah, Wriddhiman Saha, Shardul Thakur, KL Rahul, Hardik Pandya England Squad
Playing
Rory Burns, Dominic Sibley, Daniel Lawrence, Joe Root (c), Ben Stokes, Ollie Pope, Ben Foakes (wk), Moeen Ali, Stuart Broad, Jack Leach, Olly Stone Bench
Chris Woakes

R Ashwin and Axar Patel had three wickets apiece by Lunch on Day 4 of the second Test in Chennai to help India close in on a big victory. Joe Root was batting on 33 but was running out of partners at the other end as England slipped to 116 for 7 at the end of the first session on Tuesday (February 16), chasing 482 for victory.
Apart from the Axar deliveries that spun away sharply and one from Mohammad Siraj that swung in and found the inside edge, Root and Dan Lawrence weren't really troubled early on despite the bowlers being on the mark.
The England batsmen were solid with their defence, not letting the bowlers get the better of them. It took the introduction of Ashwin to get India the first wicket of the day as Lawrence stepped down the track but Ashwin sneaked the ball between the batsman's legs, with Pant effecting a fine stumping.
Root, as has been the case in this series, preferred the sweep shot - scoring his first boundary by swiping an Axar delivery in front of square. The England captain was also quick with his feet, adjusting well to play a half-pull off the left-arm spinner. At the other end, Ashwin was keeping Ben Stokes on his toes, going past the outside edge plenty of times. He eventually got the left-hander to inside edge one on to the pad, with the ball lobbing up to Virat Kohli at slip.