Cricket Team India : ENGvIND : 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 ⚔️ 🇮🇳 : 5th Test: Day 3

How much Lead can Indian batters take on day 3..?

India start with 75/2 ie 52 runs ahead, with Yashasvi Jaiswal 51* and Akashdeep 4*.

Morning Session:

Excellent weather..to bat .

1st hour belonged to India...England getting frustrated..

52 runs partnership without wicket.

127/2 : 32 Overs : India 104 Ahead.

Yashasvi 73* , Akashdeep 32*

Night watchman Akashdeep 51* off 70.

Did his job by surviving the night. Comes back the next morning to score a reassuring half-century. Akash Deep is playing a gem for India.

154/2 : 38 Ov : Lead 131 runs.

Partnership 100* (145) : Akashdeep 61*.

Akashdeep departs on bouncer by Overton.

66 (94) : 12x4s: 177/3 : Lead by 154 runs.

Partnership of 114 (151) ends.

At Lunch: India lead by 166 runs. 44 Ov.

Session dominated by India.

26 Ov / 114 runs / 1 Wicket at rr 4.38.

189/3 : Yashasvi 85* (106) & Gill 11*(8).

*Akash Deep Now has More 50+ Scores in England Tests than 😳 🤷🏻‍♂️😜😅

Shikhar Dhawan (0 50s in 14 innings )

Ravi Ashwin (0 50s in 14 innings )

Gautam Gambhir (0 50s in 10 innings )*

Post Lunch Session:

Big Big blow on the very first ball:

Shubman Gill LBW Atkinson 11(9): 189/4.

After record runs in the series, captain fails in the important last Test innings.

Karun Nair hit on finger on 1st ball.

200/4 : 47. 5 Ov : Yashasvi 94* (118) Lead 177.

Conditions better for pacers now : Overcast.

Yashasvi Jaiswal very very important innings gets to his HUNDRED off 127 balls with 11 fours and 2 sixes..worked very hard today and celebrates in his usual jumping manner. Century up, out comes the leap, out go the arms 😍.

His 6th and 2nd of series. Started series with a hundred and ends too.

Lead for 🇮🇳 200 with 6 wickets in hand.

Karun Nair dropped on 12 in slips, but in vain out on 17 off 32 : 229/5. Jadeja in.

Karun Nair, who waited eight years for a Test comeback, ended the England tour with one fifty and five scores below 30.

1st hour : 57 runs and 2 Wickets.

Yashasvi again half dropped chance on 110.

Lead is 250 , but Yashasvi out caught at Third man on 118 (164) : 14x4s , 2x6s : 273/6 : 64.2.

Very well played Yashasvi Jaiswal.

Tounge gets Jadeja lbw but saved in drs as Impact outside the off stump.

301/6 : 70.4 Ov : Jadeja 26, Jurel 22.

Another excellent session for India , though, lost 3 batters : 27 Ov / 115 runs /3 wickets.

At Tea: 304/6 : 71 Overs : Lead : 281.

Jurel lbw Overton 34 (46) : 323/7 : 76.2 Ov. Lead 300.

342/7 - 80 Ov : Jadeja 45*, Sundar 7*.

Lead 319 : New ball taken immediately.

Ravindra Jadeja 51 off 71 , already crossed 500 runs in the series.

Tounge strikes with his 2nd over of the new ball: 357/8: 83.2 : Lead 334.

Jadeja ct Brook B Tounge 53 (77).

Ravindra Jadeja is dismissed in the second innings for the first time this series! 315 runs in 5 second innings.

After 2 balls strikes again...

Siraj lbw Tounge 0 (3). 357/9 : 83.5.

Washington hits a six to mid-wicket,

takes a single on bye and another one on the 1st ball of the next over over square leg. And another one 3rd ball to Tounge : Six no.3 in 2 overs.

Lead crosses 350.

Washington Sundar....EXCELLENT..!

All class 35 off last 12 balls.

From 17* off 23 to 52* off 39! Washington blasts off with India onto their final stand 🚀

So...52 off just 39 with 4×4s & 4×6s.

Fastest 50 of the series.

Out hiking again on last of over no.88.

Washington Sundar 53 off 46, 39 invaluable runs added. Josh Tounge gets his 5th and claims his second Test five-for and finishes the series as England's top wicket-taker - 19 in three matches 👏

396/10 : 88 Overs. Lead 373.

Target for England is 374 .

With 70 minutes of batting today, for 27 overs.

The target is set, and England will need to better their Headingley chase at the start of the series!

The highest target successfully chased in Tests at The Oval is 263 👀