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India\u2019s Akash Deep celebrates after taking the wicket of England’s Ben Duckett. Photograph: Peter Cziborra\/Action Images\/Reuters <\/p>\n India\u2019s Akash Deep celebrates after taking the wicket of England’s Ben Duckett. Photograph: Peter Cziborra\/Action Images\/Reuters <\/p>\n
England may have dragged themselves from the field at the end of day two 510 runs behind, but they also ended it declaring their absolute belief that this is still a game they can win.<\/p>\n
Under Ben Stokes\u2019s captaincy England have won all three matches when their opposition has scored 500 or more runs in an innings \u2013 something that had happened only six times in the previous 145 years \u2013 and Jeetan Patel, the team\u2019s assistant coach, insisted the feeling in the dressing room is \u201c100%\u201d that this is a daunting but potentially also a winning position \u2013 and that nobody was so much as contemplating a draw.<\/p>\n
\u201cI just think we\u2019ll find another way to do it,\u201d Patel said. \u201cWe\u2019ll just find another way to get over the line. And I think that\u2019s the beauty of the team that we have, and the players we have and the belief they have in how they want to play the game. <\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s still three days of cricket left. There\u2019s a lot of cricket to go. And I think on a fast-scoring ground you never know what can happen sort of stuff. We\u2019ve got two of the greatest batters in the world at the crease at the moment and hopefully they\u2019ll go back in tomorrow and they really nestle in and really cash in on what could be a good day for England.\u201d<\/p>\n