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Preview: JSCA International Stadium in Ranchi is a very aesthetically built venue, with first-world charms unlike anywhere else in India. There's a white picket fence going around the ground to go with the two mini grassbanks and an old-world manual scoreboard. The cooler climes owing to the altitude of this city only add to the narrative and England couldn't be faulted for feeling at home here in the last couple of days. But zoom into the centre of the ground and that's where the picture gets a little bit murky for the visitors.

Ben Stokes has already admitted that he's "never seen" anything like the pitch being prepared for the fourth Test in Ranchi, and how he has "no idea" what's going to happen. Ollie Pope called the surface "interesting" and pointed out how "platey" and crumbly it was two days out from the start of the match. The England vice-captain went as far as suggesting the end from which R Ashwin could bowl, for there's a visible rough outside the right-hander's off-stump at one of the ends. Vikram Rathour, on the other hand, felt it was a "typical" Indian wicket which would take turn, but he wasn't sure when that would start happening.

That's the thing with Ranchi - the pitch here has looked worse than it has played. When Australia arrived here in 2017, they were alarmed by the dark shade of the black-soil pitch and the even darker wet patches it bore. But the match finished in a dull draw, with the over-rolled pitch failing to break up even on the final day. Then came the 2019 Test, which dished up another flat deck that remained good for batting across four days. "Bhaad me gaya pitch (to hell with the pitches)," the then coach Ravi Shastri had said after India's innings win at the time.

Five years on, the pitch here would again be the least of the headaches for India. They would be more focused on how to make up for the absence of Jasprit Bumrah, who genuinely has been the difference between the sides in this series and the reason why India could afford to play on good batting pitches and not put their young batters to the sword. How the bowling unit levels up in the absence of their spearhead will be crucial. Luckily, they have a precedent from only last week when R Ashwin had to fly back home to attend to a family emergency.

A win in Ranchi will give India yet another series win at home, extending their unbeaten streak since the 2012-13 season. Incidentally, England were the victorious side on that occasion and there's no reason why the current lot can't come close to that. The visitors have already played two great individual innings with the bat on this tour but unfortunately have failed to put India under the kind of series deficit that those knocks probably merited. It was down to the inexperience of their bowling side, who are far removed from the experience of the Swanns and the Panesars. But a turning pitch that England foresee here does bring the Bashirs and the Hartleys into the equation, and how England maximize that and make the most of Bumrah's absence will go a long way in deciding the match and the series.

Squads:
India Squad: Yashasvi Jaiswal, Rohit Sharma(c), Shubman Gill, Rajat Patidar, Sarfaraz Khan, Ravindra Jadeja, Dhruv Jurel(w), Ravichandran Ashwin, Kuldeep Yadav, Mohammed Siraj, Mukesh Kumar, Axar Patel, Srikar Bharat, Washington Sundar, Devdutt Padikkal, Akash Deep

England Squad: Zak Crawley, Ben Duckett, Ollie Pope, Joe Root, Jonny Bairstow, Ben Stokes(c), Ben Foakes(w), Tom Hartley, Ollie Robinson, James Anderson, Shoaib Bashir, Mark Wood, Rehan Ahmed, Daniel Lawrence, Gus Atkinson

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