Asked whether a draw had been discussed, Tongue said: “Hopefully we’re not in that situation anyway. We’ll try and be as positive as we can in that first session, then see where we are at lunch – then we’ll take things from there.<\/p>\n
“With our batting line-up I feel we can chase down anything. Their bowlers are going to bowl well in periods, but it’s about soaking up that pressure and putting it back on the bowlers. I don’t see why we can’t chase it.<\/p>\n
“Obviously we’re really confident. If you look at our batting line-up it’s very strong. We play a positive brand of cricket.”<\/p>\n
India batter KL Rahul was also asked if there was a scenario where his team would see a draw as a good result and replied: “I agree with Josh Tongue.<\/p>\n
“There’s definitely going to be a result. That’s what England have said very openly and their style of cricket suggests that as well. It gives us a good opportunity to pick up 10 wickets.”<\/p>\n
Rahul and Rishabh Pant made superb centuries on day four as the Test looked to be finally taking a decisive turn in India’s direction.<\/p>\n
But Tongue, in just his fourth Test, took three wickets in four deliveries to help dismiss India for 364 in their second innings and set up England’s chase.<\/p>\n
Tongue, 27, is nicknamed ‘The Mop’ by his England and Nottinghamshire team-mate Ben Duckett for his habit of running through the lower order.<\/p>\n
On Monday, Tongue removed India’s numbers eight, nine and 10 in the same over to end with 3-72, after also taking four in the first innings to wrap up the late order.<\/p>\n
“I’ve done it twice now, so I might have to start calling myself that,” Tongue said of his nickname.<\/p>\n
“Obviously that’s part of the game. I’m happy to contribute to the team by getting those wickets.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Asked whether a draw had been discussed, Tongue said: “Hopefully we’re not in that situation anyway. We’ll try…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":208976,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4101],"tags":[1406,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-208975","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-cricket","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114735454979302512","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208975\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}