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ABC News
13-07-2025
- Sport
- ABC News
England and India face tense final day at Lord's with third Test on a knife's edge
England has dismissed four Indian batters and given the Lord's Test another twist of fate to leave it on a knife-edge heading toward the fifth and final day. India set itself a winning target of 193 runs but was reduced to 4-58 in its second innings overnight. Stumps, with eight overs remaining, came as a relief to India, with England fired up and a sun-soaked Lord's crowd turned happily hostile. For one of the teams to take a 2-1 lead in the five-match series, England needs six more wickets or India needs 135 more runs. Asked for a prediction, India's Washington Sundar smiled and said his team was in the box seat to claim the win. "Definitely India winning tomorrow. Just after lunch," he said. "The position we are in right now, we would have taken. Maybe one down would be ideal." Opening batter Lokesh Rahul will resume on 33 not out but with the ball only 17.4 overs old and still juicy. India began its chase after tea and appeared to weather the early storm after Yashasvi Jaiswal fell to Jofra Archer for a duck and fellow opener Rahul was dropped on five by Chris Woakes. Rahul and Karun Nair piled more hurt on England and were chipping runs off the target until nearly an hour later when Nair left a straight delivery from seamer Brydon Carse and was plumb LBW. India appeared to panic. In came captain Shubman Gill, the series' most prolific batter. But he was unusually anxious, played six false shots in the nine balls he faced, and was out LBW to Carse for six. That huge wicket sent England into orbit and Carse into overdrive. India sent in fast bowler Akash Deep as a nightwatchman and for the last 15 minutes of the day he was targeted. Deep survived a video review on umpire's call and multiple LBW and catch appeals off Carse. But it was Stokes who smashed his off stump in what turned out to be the last ball of a remarkable day. The inspired Carse had 2-11 and Stokes 1-15. In all, 14 wickets fell on day four. "When the ball gets a little bit softer, there are more runs to be had out there, but if you get it enough in the right place [the pitch is] very tricky," England batting coach Marcus Trescothick told the BBC. "It'll come down to who holds the pressure best tomorrow." England was fielding on days two and three and gave its bowlers only 61 overs of rest before it was bowling again on day four. England was batting at 4-154 in the afternoon session and looking good to post a challenging target but it suffered a collapse of 6-38 to be all out for 192. For some reason, the pitch turned nasty overnight. It was offering plenty for the new-ball seamers and India's Jasprit Bumrah and Mohammed Siraj made deliveries fly off a length and rear up almost dangerously. On this minefield, four England batters blew up in the morning. Ben Duckett swatted straight to mid-on and Siraj followed through by screaming "come on" twice in Duckett's face and they brushed shoulders. Siraj got Ollie Pope next, LBW for four after a review. Zak Crawley's brave but skittish innings finished on 22, edging a drive at Nitish Kumar Reddy. Harry Brook relieved the tension by scooping Deep for two boundaries and smashing him into the members' pavilion. But Brook then tried sweeping the seamer and was bowled around his pads on 23. Joe Root and Stokes took England to lunch on 4-98 and spent the afternoon edging their team toward a defendable target; 250 in the mind of most observers. The pitch eased as the ball softened and Root and Stokes took England past 100 and 150. Then off-spinner Sundar regained the momentum for India when he found drift and spin and bowled Root on 40 (sweeping), Jamie Smith on 8 (defending), Stokes on 33 (sweeping) and Shoaib Bashir on 0 (defending). Sundar had 4-22 in 12.1 overs, the best figures by an India spinner in England in 23 years. Bumrah took 2-38 and Siraj 2-31. "They were all big wickets, especially [at] the stage of play," Sundar said. "The UK has been kind. I don't get as much drift in subcontinent conditions." A dozen England batters in the match were bowled, the most by England in a Test since 1887 in Sydney. It had never happened in England. Six of the bowleds in the match were by Bumrah. That was a first for India against England. The last bowler to bowl six Englishmen was Curtly Ambrose in 1994 at Port of Spain. But India's terrific bowling effort showed England what kind of damage it can do, too, and set up the match for a thrilling finale at a sold-out Lords. AP
Al Arabiya
13-07-2025
- Sport
- Al Arabiya
England's injured bashir will bowl again at lord's but may not bat against india
England was unsure on Sunday if the injured Shoaib Bashir will bat in its second innings against India at Lords. Bashir injured the little finger of his non-bowling left hand on Saturday after lunch and left the field. England's frontline spinner didn't return for the rest of the day. 'A decision on whether he will bat in the (second) innings will be made in due course,' England said in a statement before play on Day 4. England was 2-0 in its second innings leading by two runs. The good news for England fans was Bashir is expected to bowl in the (India second) innings of this test. The off-spinner took the wicket of India century-maker Lokesh Rahul on Saturday. 'Whether Bashir who has played in every match of the series appears in the fourth test at Old Trafford next week will be assessed after the Lords test,' England said.
Al Arabiya
12-07-2025
- Sport
- Al Arabiya
India Loses Rahul For 100 But Rebuilds To 316-5 On Day 3 Of 3rd Test Against England
India lost Lokesh Rahul off his first ball after reaching 100 but rebuilt through Ravindra Jadeja and Nitish Reddy to reach tea on 316-5 on Day 3 of the third test against England at Lords on Saturday. The tourists trailed by 71 runs but were in position to take a first-innings lead in a crucial match with the five-test series level at 1-1. Rahul reached his 10th test century with a quick single off Jofra Archer soon after the resumption following lunch. He removed his helmet, kissed it, and acclaimed the crowd at the home of cricket – only from his next ball the following over to edge offspinner Shoaib Bashir to Harry Brook at slip. Having seen Rishabh Pant run out by England captain Ben Stokes off the last ball before lunch, India was suddenly in some bother at 254-5 but Jadeja (40) and Reddy (25) steadied the innings with an unbeaten partnership of 62 runs. Bashir has had to go off the field with a dislocated finger on his left hand sustained off his own bowling when he stopped a fierce shot down the ground from Jadeja. England was still searching for a breakthrough with the new ball with Archer (1-45) and Stokes (1-50) bowling menacingly but without any wickets.
Al Arabiya
05-07-2025
- Sport
- Al Arabiya
Pant Chucks Bat In Wild Innings As India Extends Lead To 357 Runs Against England
Rishabh Pant was bringing the chaos at Edgbaston on Saturday as India stretched its lead to 357 runs by lunch on Day 4 of the second test against England. The explosive left-handed batter reached the break on 41, having been dropped twice on either side of a bizarre incident where he went for a pull shot, missed the ball, and let go of his bat. It flew about 20 meters into the leg side – luckily missing any England fielders – and sparked laughter on and off the field. Pant was alongside Shubman Gill (24) – the India captain who scored 269 in the first-innings total of 587 – with the tourists on 177–3 and having seen Karun Nair removed for 26 and Lokesh Rahul for 55. They began the day on 64–1 and first lost Nair, who drove and edged Brydon Carse to wicketkeeper Jamie Smith. Rahul departed when he lost his middle stump to a seaming delivery by pacer Josh Tongue, and that brought Pant to the middle, certainly livening things up. Off just his fourth ball faced, Pant advanced down the track and smashed Tongue for a straight six before sending an easy chance to Zak Crawley at mid-on off the bowling of Ben Stokes. Somehow, he dropped it. Then came an over from Tongue where Pant chucked his bat in the air before the very next ball, offering up a chance to Chris Woakes, who couldn't gather a leading edge. Pant made England pay by nudging close to a half-century, having already hit five fours and two sixes, as Gill played a steadier role at the other end. England leads the five-test series 1–0 after winning at Headingley last week.
Yahoo
02-07-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Jaiswal rebuilds India after being made to bat first by England at Edgbaston
BIRMINGHAM, England (AP) — India was 98-2 at lunch after being made to bat first by England to start the second test at Edgbaston on Wednesday. Yashasvi Jaiswal was 62 not out, after Lokesh Rahul chopped on to his stumps on 2 early on, and Karun Nair was out minutes before lunch when he picked out second slip. Advertisement Rahul's wicket was reward for England's tight bowling on a dry, batter-friendly pitch under sunny skies. Then Nair's ambition sparked Jaiswal out of uncharacteristic caution and they accelerated to hit 16 boundaries in a stand of 80 runs off 90 balls. But Nair's wicket stopped the session from being dominated by India. Captain Shubman Gill was with Jaiswal on 1. The first hour was attritional for India, with England seamer Chris Woakes particularly effective. He got Rahul out and had big lbw shouts against Jaiswal on 12 and Nair on 5. Both times the ball was tracking to clip the top of off stump but the batters survived on umpire calls. Advertisement Nair was promoted from No. 6 in the batting order to No. 3 for the first time in a test and quickly passed Jaiswal's score by driving at Woakes and Josh Tongue. Jaiswal was unusually strangled but didn't give England the mistake it was waiting for. He opened up in the second hour by smashing fuller-length deliveries to the boundary by Tongue and Ben Stokes. His rising confidence brought out his imagination, including an overhead volley smash of Stokes to the boundary. He brought up his 50 with his 10th boundary — an overhead cut, on his toes, off Tongue. His 16th 50-plus score in his 21st test came off 58 balls. Nair fell softly after a bowling change and the return of Brydon Carse. Advertisement India revealed its lineup after England won the toss and surprised by resting its best bowler, Jasprit Bumrah, and not picking wrist spinner Kuldeep Yadav, who was missed in the series-opening loss in Leeds last week. Sai Sudharsan, who made his test debut in Leeds, and Shardul Thakur were dropped and Nitish Kumar Reddy and Washington Sundar picked in an attempt by India to try and balance batting depth with a side that can take 20 wickets. India became the first side to lose a test after hitting five centuries. Bumrah was replaced by Akash Deep. ___ AP cricket: The Associated Press
