ENG 357/6 | STUMPS | IND vs ENG Highlights 2nd Test 2018, Day 3: England Lead By 250 Runs As Bad Light Ends Play!
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The bad light has called off play on Day 3. The Indian camp will be a little relieved, given the fact how their performances were, today.
None of the bowlers looked threatening after the first two hours and rather looked listless. On the other hand, England did well to manage to bat solidly and not panic after they were 80/4 during LUNCH.
Jonny Bairstow and Chris Woakes took the game away from India as they stitched a match-winning partnership of 189 runs for the sixth wicket.
England has crossed the 350-run mark and they are leading by 250 runs. The match has been suspended for the day, as the umpires have called off the play due to bad light.
Chris Woakes and Sam Curran are on the crease with 122 and 22 runs against their name respectively.
Finally, India manages a breakthrough. Albeit a little late; but better late than never. Hardik Pandya snaps Jonny Bairstow, who falls 7 short of a deserved century.
Pandya bowls a nothing delivery, but Bairstow looks to hit the ball. The ball finds an edge and, while diving Dinesh Karthik takes a smart catch behind the wicket. Sam Curran is the new man in. Will India be able to wrap up England's tail?
Chris Woakes' maiden century has added more injury to India's already sore wounds. The leade has crossed the 200-runs and there seems no respite to India's ordeal. England has crossed the 300- run mark too. None of the Indian bowlers has managed to look threatening. Barring a few flying edges, nothing else has looked promising for the visitors.
The Indian team are deflated at the moment. Woakes and Bairstow's partnership has added more woes to India's struggle. There seems to be no way back into the match.
Skipper Kohli has tried every bowler in his arsenal and none of them has been able to provide the breakthrough. TEA BREAK is taken.
The Indian bowlers seem to have lost the steam. Or one can say that the England batsmen, Jonny Bairstow and Chris Woakes, have applied themselves well on the crease.
Bairstow reached his HALF-CENTURY! and is looking solid at one end; whereas, Woakes has provided an equal support from the other end.
The lead has now reached 106 runs, and India will need more than a miracle to make a comeback in this match.
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Mohammed Shami strikes, again. Jos Buttler is LBW OUT! Indian team is ecstatic.
Buttler was caught in the line of the ball trying to play across the line, towards the leg side. Buttler misses the shot and the ball raps on the pads. The replays suggest that the ball had have dislodged the stumps.
Both Jonny Bairstow and Jos Buttler were running away with the game as the duo was scoring freely and at a brisk pace. The wicket has come at the right time for India. Chris Woakes is the new man in.
Mohammed Shami strikes at the right time for the Indian team. The ball stays low and raps on Joe Root's pads. Umpire gives Root LBW OUT! as he looks bewildered with the dipping rise.
India is right back in the match with this wicket, and it is LUNCH TIME!
Hardik Pandya swings the ball in as it thuds Ollie Pope's pad. Umpire Aleem Dar raises his finger quickly. Pope and Root discuss a bit, before taking their final DRS REVIEW! eventually.
The ball is pitching on the off-side, the impact is in line and is going to hit the stumps; three reds and the third umpire stays with Dar's decision. Pope is LBW OUT! and Indian team is happy with the breakthrough.
Jonny Bairstow is the new man in.Will India be able to rip through England's middle order?
The introduction of Kuldeep Yadav hasn't worked in the favour of the Indian team. Root and Pope are steadily building a healthy partnership. Perhaps, India needs some magic here.
Will Ashwin be introduced from the other end? England is looking solid at the moment, and has eaten half of India's total already.
After a glorious FOUR! on the first ball, Ishant pitches the ball closer to the off-stump line and is rewarded with the wicket of ALASTAIR COOK!
A tight-line sees Cook play a defensive shot; however, the ball swings and the thin edge is pouched safely by Dinesh Karthik, as Cook is CAUGHT OUT! Debutant Ollie Pope is the new man in.
England is 2 down, and the Indian team looks elated suddenly | Will team India make more inroads?
This is what the Indian bowlers need to do, simply. Pitch it up, pitch it on a full length and the wickets will flow. Mohammed Shami draws first blood as Jennings is OUT LBW!
England call for a DRS REVIEW! but the third umpire stays with the decision of the on-field umpire.
Jennings feels he had an inside edge there. Joe Root is the new man in.
At the end of five overs, England is off to a steady start. The Indian team have bowled waywardly so far, with only a few deliveries on tighter lines. India needs to reassess their strategy if they hope of making the game out of it.
Alastair Cook and Keaton Jennings have looked solid in their strokeplay, so far. As for India, Ishant Sharma and Mohammed Shami are struggling to bowl in a disciplined way.
It's a bright day at Lord's stadium, as sunny skies welcome both the teams.
The Indian team will have to toil hard in these (seemingly) batting-friendly conditions. As for England, any score near 250 would be more than par, for them.
England bowlers humbled the Indian team on Day 2 of the second Test match in Lords. James Anderson took another five-wicket haul in his career and was India's wrecker-in-chief. No Indian batsman could put up a fight against the combined effort of Anderson, Stuart Broad, Chris Woakes, and Sam Curran. Will India pull things back?
The Indian team would be relying heavily on Kuldeep Yadav and the pace of Ishant Sharma and Mohammed Shami. As for R Ashwin, he would be looking forward to carrying his form from the previous match.
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