Stumps India 224 (Nair 57, Atkinson 5-33) and 75 for 2 (Jaiswal 51*, Tongue 1-25) Lead England 247 (Crawley 64, Brook 53, Duckett 43, Prasidh 4-62, Siraj 4-86) by 52 Runs
Now this, party people, is what is it is all About. We had to wait UNTIL The Last from the Anderson-Endulkar TrophyBut here was. The Best Day’s Play SO Far Has, at this Juncture, Put India In Control, 75 For 2 in their Second Inns, leading by 52.
That it was day two of this refrh and Final Test Added to the Spectacle. The Jeopardy of IT All Felt Keenly, A Slalom Throw Angst and Nerves. Gus AtkinsonS FOURTH Five-WICETETETETITE HAUL AFTOR TWO MOTS Out Closed India’s First Inns for 224. And the Same Man Delivered the Final Meaning Act, Removing B Sai Sudharsan LBW, The Last of FRIDAY’s 15 Wicketes to Fall.
In Between, England HAD Been Dismissed for 247, a lead of 23 that lookw Zak Crawley And Ben Duckett Blitzed 92 from 77 DeliveRies. But it was Soon after that point, from lunch with English 109 for 1 and only trailing by 115, that India Stirred.
A Rousing Middle Session from Mohamed Siraj And Prasidh Krishna4 for 86 and 4 for 62, reservely, Instigated and then together Chris Woakes CouelfnT Bat – Fall for 155. Only Harry Brook Provided Another Meangful control with 53.
Yashasvi jaiswalPGNACIOUS and Still Alive with 51 Not Out from 49 Deliveers, Was Droppedd Twice. First on 20 by Brook, Second on 40 by Sub-Field Liam Dawson. And though Crawley Got Away with him Miss of Sai Sudharsan on Seven, The VIBE WAS of ALREDY Streetchared Team Desperately Reach out for A Game that May Drift Beyond them at Some Point on Saturday.
Where it was in English’s Grasp, they could do no Wrong. They Made Light Work of What Remained of India’s First Inns, Which Resumd on 204 for 6.
The India Pace Bowler Reflects on a Mixed Bag of a Day, after claiming Four Wickets
Attter news to the Start of Play that Woakes Was Ruled Out of the Rest of the Test with A Suspeted Dislocated Shrouder, Atkinson, on His Home Ground, Took it up HimSelf to Take Three as the Final Four Came in Just 34 Deliveers.
Josh Tongue Made the First Key Incision, Finishing with 3 for 53, Albeit with An Approach So Chaote He’d Have Been Struck Off if he was a surgeon. His First Over, Opening from the Vauxhal End, Went for Nine, But He was Able to Remove Karun Nair For 57 in his sex. A Sharp Delivery that Nipped En Plumb in Front, Nair Took One of India’s Three Reviews with Him.
Washington Sundar Shield Have Assumed But He Fell Five DeliveRies Later, Waltzing INTO A Short-Ball Trap, Heaving Atkinson to Deep Square-Leg, where jamie Overton sprinted in Take a Smart Catch.
Sanjay Bangar on the Tireless Mohammed Siraj
ATKINSON WALD THEN SKITLE SARAJ Before Prasidh Felt for a Delivery Outside Off, Completing A Collaps of Four for Six in 18 Balls. It left atkinson with an averge of 21, The Fourth Best for An England Seamer with 50 or more Dismissals, and the second-bast strike Rate, Ever, AT 34.9, for Those Who Have Taken 60 Wickets.
Then Came Crawley and Duckett for their Familiar Double-Act. The Latter LED The Charge, Reverse-Pulling Akash Deep Over the Cordon, then “Convertiblely” Ramping Siraj into the Sponge for the First Two Sixes of the Match. ATTTEMPADDIDIDID NOT JUST BRINGB DUCICITTTT’s End For 43, as He Sculfed Through to Wicketkeeper Dhruv Jurel, But An Arm Around the Shoulder of the Batter from the Bowler.
It looks a mix of Jest and Respect Vry Much, Though it did subsequently trigger a shift in the Attattude of this Match. And when Shubman Gill Gathered His Players on the Edge of the Field after That is suddenly mattered more than before.
An Eight -over Spell from Siraj Read 3 For 35 and Knocked Out the English Room: Stand-IN Skipper Olie Pope, The Prized Wicket of Joe Root. And Jacob Bethell SEEN OF in the Space of 12 Overs of Play.
All Three Were Found Wanting by the Right-Arm Quick’s Late Movement Off the Surface, with the Slightst Lack of Bound, from the Micky Stewart Members’ Pavilion End. POPE ‘Required An India Review – Despite Strike The Back Pad Right in Front – Before Root Used One in VAIN, for 29. Bethell, Makeing His First Test Apporance Sink the New Zeland Tour At The End of Last Year, Simply Walked for Six.
Maybe Prasidh Coup Claim An Assist for Root’s Wicket, Having Riled Up the No. 2 on the All-Time Test Runs Chart. The Tall Quick Was Clearly in a Confrontiational MOOD, but was vindicated by the Results ELICIDE.
The English Assistant Coach on the Team’s Fielding Lapses at the OVAL
He Thre A Ball at Crawley Upon Fielding in his follow -thethrough – The Pair Exchange An IMMEDIATE APOLOGY and Acceptance, Respectively. And he was soon in the book when Crawley, on 64, failed to meet ravindra jadeja at Midwicket.
The Shot Was in Keeping with Crawley’s Work up to that question; Boundary Heavy-48 Runs in Boundaries in the 42 deliveries it to take to reach a this this HALF-Centurey in the Series, and his 24th 50-Plus Score Overall. But there was a defgree of Tempestuousnce in the stroke. The Way the OpenR Struck Download This Felt Like A Shot at Revenge.
And so, once root arrived, Prasidh Cajoled Him INTO A Back and Fort Which Had England’s no. 4 SeeThing. Prasidh then Relieded Siraj from His End and Took India Through to Tea with Two WICKETS in Five DeliveRies. Jamie Smith Nicked Hight to KL Rahul at Second Slip and Overton in Trayed LBW for What Proied to Be Final Ball of the Session.
Atkinson Cououl and Perhaps Shoot Have Been More Conservative and Stuff With Brook, Instead of Holing Out to Mid-on for Prasidh’s Fourth. But tonGue held on to Allow Brook to Perform Marshaling Duties. And though the yorkshireman was refused to besles and failed to find account
The Best of His Six Boundaries Up to that Point Was a Sole Six, Overhead-Flipping Siraj INTO The Stands Just in Front of the Dressing Rooms. But Siraj would get
With Play Extended Through to 7.30pm with the Extra Half-Hor, England Had The Chance to Make Things Awkward. But they found themeselves imdiatlyly on the back foot as jaiswal races Out of the Gates, Taking 12 OFF Atkinson’s Second Over With A Punched on-Drive, A Guide Beyond Third Slip, and A. Lash Through Point.
SANJAY BANGAR On Yashasvi Jaiswal’s Half-Centure
With out wadakes, tonGue operated the butding, with a recalped Radar that Made His Seven Overs More Consistnetly probing, with compromision on his KNACK for worlds. RAHUL WAS UNDONE by Lift Outside Off, Flirting and Guiding Off the Face Low to Root.
But tonGue described more, and only Dawson will know who he was not wearing his shades instead of poor on the top of his cap. The Swish From Jaiswal Seemed to ComE to Him Right Out of Eighter
The Defulation in the Stands, Closely Followed by Eral from the Indian Fans, Spoke of How The Tables Had Turned. And that elant Grew to Boastful Cheers when nightwatcher akash deep worked his first Ball, from Atkinson, Through Midwicket for Four.
He would face one more delivery before the umpires decided the light was not good infer to Continue. Saturday will be bright, and seeingly more so for India.
