England v India – Third Test - Third Day’s Summary
India 224 & 35/1 (12.0 ov) v England 710/7 -
India trail by 451 runs with 9 wickets remaining
After having two days of sensational Test cricket, the third day of the third Test between India and England provided cricket fans another day of cricketing bliss as they saw the two teams fight it out at Edgbaston, Birmingham.
The series between the two teams could not have been anymore exciting than this as is has captivated cricket fans all over the world because everyone wants to know who is actually going to be the number one team in the longest form of the game once the series
ends after the fourth Test at the Oval, beginning from 18 August.
Meanwhile, the third day saw a phenomenal batting display from the hosts England as they heaped a massive tally of 710 runs in response to India’s first innings total of 224 runs.
From England, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/AN-Cook-c1026 was the obvious star as he played a defiant innings of 294 runs which is his career best in any format of the game.
Starting the day’s proceedings Cook and http://www.senore.com/Cricket/MS-Dhoni-c2028 was showing signs of frustration
when the English duo was on the crease.
The batsmen scored runs freely giving the spectators plenty to cheer about while India failed to halt the batting onslaught.
As Cook played a calm innings, Morgan on the other hand, galloped to 104 runs by playing a fine innings on 199 deliveries that included 11 boundaries. From watching the two batsmen, it was quite obvious that http://www.senore.com/Cricket/England-c56013 were planning to bat only once in the
match and take the game away from the touring side.
It was finally on the penultimate delivery of the 161st over that India managed to get the wicket of http://www.senore.com/Cricket/SK-Raina-c2539.
With Morgan back in the pavilion, India still had to worry about Cook who was in no mood to walk off the field anytime soon. Nonetheless, three overs later, India struck again by dismissing http://www.senore.com/Cricket/RS-Bopara-c2373, who after playing a knock of seven runs was given leg-before-wicket
on a delivery bowled by http://www.senore.com/Cricket/A-Mishra-c871.
An over later, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/SR-Tendulkar-c2556 off the bowling of Mishra. At the time of his departure England had managed to post 613 runs on
the board.
At this point, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/TT-Bresnan-c2711 batted as if he was a genuine batsman by smacking
the Indian bowlers all over the park which helped him post a total of 53 runs. His half century came as he hit a huge six which also brought the 700 runs up for England.
The hosts were waiting for their ace batsman to reach his triple century; however, Cook fell after scoring 294 runs when he was caught by Raina off the bowling of http://www.senore.com/Cricket/AJ-Strauss-c964 called the batsmen back
by declaring the innings after his side had put 710 runs on the board.
Coming out to bat, India had a daunting task to save grace in the dreaded Test; however, they suffered an early loss, when Sehwag who failed to back the hype regarding his predicable successful comeback went back to the pavilion on the first delivery that
he faced without scoring a run. The batsman was caught by Strauss at first slip off the bowling of http://www.senore.com/Cricket/JM-Anderson-c1705.
It was then http://www.senore.com/Cricket/G-Gambhir-c1447 tried to restrict the English pacers from taking anymore wickets in the remainder of the day’s play.
At stumps, India managed to score 35 runs for the loss of one wicket as they trailed by 451 runs with two days of play still remaining.
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