India vs England 4th Test Prediction and Betting Tips: England battling to stay in the series

England are hoping to keep their hopes of a series win in India alive as they head into the Fourth Test on Friday January 23rd with the hosts leading 2-1.

After both of our bets rolled home in Rajkot, we're bringing you two more tips for this showdown in Ranchi.

India's personnel issues continue ahead of this fourth test against England, with lead seamer Jasprit Bumrah the latest player looking set for an absence from the side.

Despite Virat Kohli and KL Rahul missing from the batting line-up, India's new generation of talent with the bat appear to be accepting the responsibility with aplomb thus far.

For England, their worst innings of the Bazball era must be consigned to history if they're to produce a memorable comeback and win the series.

A dismal 122 in the final innings in Rajkot saw the travelling side slip to a 434-run defeat and Brendon McCullum has responded with two changes to his side, with Ollie Robinson and Shoaib Bashir replacing Rehan Ahmed and Mark Wood. 

In all three tests of this series so far, we have correctly backed England's opening duo to score over the money line in the first innings and they absolutely cruised past the 28.5 mark to 89 without a wicket before Zak Crawley was caught by Rajat Patidar from the bowling of Ravi Ashwin.

England have only failed to score more than 29 on one occasion so far in this series, and we're willing to look past that collapse in the fourth innings in Rajkot given the match situation and assume that Ben Duckett will again guide the visitors to a commendable start to their first innings.

If you haven't yet placed a 'player performance' bet on BetMGM, we recommend taking a look at these markets as they can often provide some great value. For context, a run counts for one point, a catch 10 points, a wicket 20 and a stumping 25.

One player worth looking at here is Zak Crawley and we're backing him to total 63 or more performance points in this game. The England opener is unlikely to take any wickets or stumpings, but as a regular slip fielder he's always a decent catching option and it would only take one decent knock like either of his two innings from the second test in Vizag to reach that total of performance points regardless.