India dominate England on third day of second Test

India stay successful power of 2nd Test contempt England centuries by Harry Brook and Jamie Smith connected Day Three.

England had large centuries from Harry Brook and Jamie Smith but small other to observe arsenic India stayed successful power of the 2nd Test connected a turbulent Day Three astatine Edgbaston.

Resuming connected 77-3 connected Friday, in reply to India’s mammoth first-innings 587 each out, England mislaid Joe Root and Ben Stokes to successive balls from Mohammed Siraj successful the 2nd implicit but recovered brilliantly purely acknowledgment to a 303-run basal by Brook (158) and Smith (a career-best 184 not out).

After taking the 2nd caller ball, India claimed England’s past 5 wickets for 20 runs successful conscionable 44 balls to disregard the location squad for 407 – Brook and Smith accounted for 342 of those runs – and instrumentality a pb of 180 into the 2nd innings.

England had a singular six ducks successful total, and Siraj’s figures of 6-70.

Batting nether unreality cover, the Indians reached stumps connected 64-1 – with lone the nonaccomplishment of Yashasvi Jaiswal (28) – and volition resume connected Saturday 244 runs up and with a series-tying triumph successful their sights.

Lokesh Rahul was unbeaten connected 28 alongside Karun Nair, connected 7.

“We are rather up close now,” Siraj said, “but the program is to get arsenic galore runs connected the committee due to the fact that we cognize their attacking mindset.”

Mohammed Siraj of India celebrates the wicket of Josh Tongue of England during Day Three of the 2nd Test [Alex Davidson/Getty Images]

England was successful a large spread that looked gargantuan erstwhile Root and Stokes departed to permission their broadside connected 84-5 and inactive trailing by much than 500 runs.

Siraj dismissed England’s champion batter — Root for 22 — by enticing a nick down the limb side, with wicketkeeper Rishabh Pant taking a diving catch, and past its skipper for a aureate duck. Stokes trudged backmost to the dressing country aft a steeply rising and seaming transportation came disconnected the enarthrosis of his bat and flashed to Pant.

England were rocked, but Smith and Brook played arsenic if determination was nary unit with a counterattacking riposte.

“Hopefully, we’ve clawed ourselves backmost successful the game,” Brook said. “I conscionable tried to bat arsenic agelong arsenic I could, and Smudge [Smith] tried to get the momentum backmost our way. He’s a phenomenal player.”

Jamie Smith of England celebrates reaching his period during Day Three of the 2nd Test [Alex Davidson/Getty Images]

Smith came successful to look a hat-trick ball, struck that for four, and went connected to marque the biggest people by an England wicketkeeper – surpassing Alec Stewart. He raced to his 2nd Test 100 earlier luncheon successful conscionable 80 balls, the 3rd fastest by an Englishman, and including an implicit erstwhile helium pulled and smashed Prasidh Krishna for a six and 4 fours. Smith was dropped by Pant connected 121 disconnected a pugnacious chance.

Brook compiled his ninth Test 100 successful 27 matches, getting to 3 figures, courtesy of a classy precocious chopped for four, aft being dismissed for 99 successful the archetypal trial won by England astatine Headingley past week.

Brook, a prima for England successful each formats, reined successful immoderate flimsy vexation astatine India changing tactics and bowling wide extracurricular off-stump to a lopsided tract and looked bully aft going down with cramp.

Soon afterwards, helium was bowled by Akash Deep (4-88) – equipped with the 2nd caller shot – and was serenaded arsenic helium walked disconnected gingerly.

That precipitated England’s late-order illness that saw numbers 9 done 11 – Brydon Carse, Josh Tongue and Shaoib Bashir – each being removed for ducks, joining Ben Duckett, Ollie Pope and Stokes.

Tongue responded by trapping Jaiswal lbw, but India finished the time successful the driving seat.

“If I hadn’t got out, we would not beryllium successful this concern now,” Brook said, “but we saw past week however rapidly it tin change.

“Hopefully, we tin enactment unit with aboriginal wickets and marque them crumble.”

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