Former India cricketer Sanjay Manjrekar expressed concern to the broadcaster about whether India would be able to replicate its batting performance in the first Test, where the team only scored a six-run advantage, after England had nearly completely negated the first innings in Leeds. The Shubman Gill-led team did, though. The visitors established a tough target of 371 to win the series-opening game at Headingley, with KL Rahul and Rishabh Pant controlling the game with their respective centuries.

For the second time in the game, Pant destroyed a century, hitting 118 in the second innings. He scored four of his eight Test century in his career in England. In England, he was the ninth visiting batsman to make a century in each innings of a Test match, the second wicketkeeper-batter after Zimbabwe's Andy Flower in 2001, and the first player from India.

Rahul, on the other hand, surpassed Rahul Dravid as the Asian opener with the most triple-figure scores in England by scoring 137 runs, his third century in the country. The game shifted in India's favor due to the 195-run partnership the couple established.

The two centuries made Sachin Tendulkar and Sourav Ganguly ecstatic, and they lauded the two batsmen. If the final day in Leeds is dry, the former India captain even predicted that the match may have a winner.

"@klrahul's composure. @RishabhPant17's talent. Two unique strikes. "Two proud moments," tweeted Sachin.

“Fantastic from pant.. tremendous test match batsman @RisabhPant.. very important 100 for KL Rahul,” Ganguly wrote. The test match is ready to go, we need it, and there will be a winner tomorrow if there isn't any rain.

Is India on the verge of winning?

At the end of Day 4, England was still unharmed, and the openers had managed to score 21 runs off the target while also weathering three overs from Jasprit Bumrah, the star pace bowler. Despite predictions of rain, they still need 350 more runs at a rate of fewer than four runs per over in the last three Tuesday sessions. However, even though the 'Bazball' era is sure that it can chase down the objective, the odds are still clearly in India's favor. At Headingley, it would break a record for England if it did.