India Lost Third Test Against England: The hosts have won the third match of the five -match Test series between India and England by 22 runs. With this, England has taken a 2–1 lead in this series. In order to win the third Test, the Indian cricket team got a target of 193 runs, in response to which Team India’s innings was reduced to 170 runs on the fifth day.
England bowlers were completely dominated in India’s second innings. The Indian team had lost four important wickets on the fourth day, chasing the target. On the fifth day, no batsman except Ravindra Jadeja could score in front of the British bowlers. Jadeja tried his best to take the match closer by making an important partnership with the lower -order batsmen after the main batsmen were dismissed soon.
Jadeja remained unbeaten on 181 balls patiently by scoring 61 runs, but he could not get enough support at the other end. Despite this, players like Jasprit Bumrah and Mohammad Siraj showed a great passion to stay at the crease by playing 54 and 30 balls respectively. However, Mohammad Siraj finally became very unfortunately bowled off Shoaib Bashir’s ball and India’s innings ended at 170 runs.
Earlier, in the first session of the fifth day, the biggest blow to the Indian team was due to the dismissal of Rishabh Pant, who has carried out the best innings with his brilliant form in this series. Pant, who scored 74 runs in the first innings, was dismissed for just 9 runs in the second innings. He was bowled by Jofra Archer.
After this, KL Rahul was bowled by the captain of the hosts by Ben Stokes and gave a big blow to India’s hope. Rahul scored 39 runs off 58 balls, in which he hit six fours. After this, Jofra Archer did not even let Washington Sundar open the account and caught his catch on his own ball.
After losing seven wickets, Ravindra Jadeja and Nitish Kumar Reddy tried to fulfill the restrained partnership for the 8th wicket for the Indian team. Both showed India’s score to three points, showing defensive games. But just before lunch, Chris Woakes also broke this partnership by getting Nitish caught by Jamie Smith on a personal score of 13 runs.
Reddy scored 13 runs off 53 balls. In this way, the Indian team scored 112 runs in 39.3 overs at the loss of 8 wickets till lunch. After lunch, the Indian batting continued to roam around Ravindra Jadeja. Jadeja also contributed 72 runs in the first innings.
At the same time, captain Ben Stokes and Jofra Archer got 3-3 wickets in the second innings from England. Bridan Cruses got two, Shoaib Bashir and Chris Woakes got 1-1 wickets.
Earlier in this match, both India and England were reduced to the score of 387 runs. England had scored only 192 runs in the second innings and Team India got a target of 193 runs to win.
In the five -match Test series, England won the first and India won the second match. The Indian team has lagged behind 1-2 after losing the match in Lord’s.
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