Brooks hits 99 against India as England draws level on Day 3 of first Test

India has a 96-run pb implicit England with 8 wickets remaining heading into time 4 of the archetypal Test astatine Headingly.

India led England by 96 runs connected the 2nd innings aft 3 days of an enthralling Test bid opener astatine Headingley.

India bowled retired the hosts for 465 astatine beverage connected Sunday to eke retired a six-run first-innings lead, and was 90-2 successful its 2nd bat erstwhile rainfall stopped play a half-hour early.

Opener Lokesh Rahul was 47 not retired with skipper Shubman Gill beside him connected 6.

Opener Yashasvi Jaiswal was nipped retired by Brydon Carse for 4, and Sai Sudharsan fell to Ben Stokes for the 2nd clip successful the match, connected 30.

Harry Brook led England’s batting effort connected the day, riding his luck from 0 to 99 erstwhile helium was retired hooking consecutive to the fielder astatine heavy backward quadrate leg.

Brook was successful power of partnerships of 51 with Stokes, 73 with Jamie Smith and 49 with Chris Woakes. But erstwhile helium was retired astatine 398-7, England trailed India by 73. India would person expected to wrapper up the process with the caller shot lone 5 overs old.

But accelerated bowling allrounder Woakes and batter Carse smashed India for 55 runs disconnected 44 balls, and India needed to springiness prima pacer Jasprit Bumrah a 5th spell to yet extremity England’s innings.

Bumrah took the past 2 wickets to decorativeness with 5-83, his 14th Test five-for and 12th five-for distant from home, tying Kapil Dev’s India record.

England’s Ben Stokes celebrates aft taking the wicket of Sai Sudharsan for 30 runs successful the 2nd India innings [Ed Sykes/Action Images via Reuters]