England beat Jadeja, India in third Test at Lord’s to take 2-1 series lead

England survived a courageous 2nd innings fightback by India’s Ravindra Jadeja connected the last time of the 3rd Test astatine Lord’s Cricket Ground successful London.

England bushed India by 22 runs connected a last time of simmering hostility and precocious play successful the 3rd Test astatine Lord’s to determination 2-1 up successful the best-of-five series.

Shoaib Bashir bowled Mohammed Siraj for 4 to seal victory, India’s fig 11 playing a antiaircraft changeable earlier the shot trickled down the look of his bat and rolled connected to the stumps arsenic helium watched connected successful disbelief.

As the England players celebrated wildly precocious connected Monday, Ravindra Jadeja trudged disconnected the tract aft making a valiant unbeaten 61 to instrumentality India to the brink of an bonzer win.

The hosts had looked connected people for a acold much comfy triumph erstwhile they reduced India to 112-8 astatine lunch, but Jadeja and Jasprit Bumrah battled for astir 2 hours to inch their squad towards a people of 193.

Jadeja was fixed retired limb earlier wicket to Chris Woakes by the umpire. But the determination was overturned connected review, and the left-hander heaved the adjacent transportation implicit mid-wicket for six, prompting large cheers from the Indian fans.

England yet made the breakthrough erstwhile Bumrah, connected five, skied an attempted propulsion disconnected Ben Stokes and was caught by substitute fielder Sam Cook.

The bulk of the assemblage erupted with a substance of joyousness and relief, but Jadeja continued to frustrate England, reaching his 50, disconnected 150 balls, by edging Stokes implicit the slips for four.

Siraj survived 30 deliveries for his 4 runs arsenic Jadeja farmed the bowling and took a succession of singles disconnected the 4th shot of the implicit to predominate the strike.

Siraj suffered a achy stroke to his enarthrosis aft being struck by a Jofra Archer transportation and soon afterwards his absorption was yet broken.

Ravindra Jadeja top-scored for India successful the 2nd innings with a diligent 61 runs and was not retired astatine the extremity of play [Peter Cziborra/Action Images via Reuters]

A bully greeting for England

England had claimed 4 wickets successful the greeting to instrumentality complaint of the lucifer aft India resumed connected 58-4.

Rishabh Pant played an bonzer one-handed consecutive thrust for 4 disconnected Archer to determination to nine, but the accelerated bowler responded 2 balls aboriginal with an fantabulous transportation which uprooted his disconnected stump.

Stokes snared KL Rahul lbw for 39, the England skipper dropping to his knees and imploring the umpire to springiness him out.

He refused to bash so, but England called for a reappraisal and the determination was overturned to immense cheers from the crowd.

Washington Sundar was adjacent to autumn for a duck, Archer leaping to his close to instrumentality a superb one-handed drawback disconnected his ain bowling.

Jadeja and Nitish Kumar Reddy frustrated England with coagulated defence successful a concern of 30 until Woakes recovered the borderline of Reddy’s bat conscionable earlier luncheon to springiness the hosts a immense assistance arsenic they near the tract to lukewarm applause from a packed crowd.

The 4th Test volition statesman connected July 23 astatine Old Trafford successful Manchester.

England’s Jamie Smith and Ollie Pope observe aft Shoaib Bashir takes the past wicket of India’s Mohammed Siraj, centre, to triumph the 3rd Test [Peter Cziborra/Action Images via Reuters]