Ind vs Eng 1st Test, Day 3 – Stumps: 257/6: India were struggling to avoid follow-on at 257 for six after England amassed a mammoth 578 all out in their first innings on the third day of the series-opening Test here on Sunday.
India, who were 321 behind the England total at stumps, will need to make another 122 runs to avoid follow-on and make the visitors bat again.
Washington Sundar (33) and R Aswhin (8) will resume the proceedings for the hosts on the fourth day morning.
Off-spinner Dom Bess (4/55) led England’s bowling performance by dismissing four Indian batsmen, including captain Virat Kohli (11) and his deputy Ajinkya Rahane (1), after fast bowler Jofra Archer’s early blows on the hosts.
Rishabh Pant smashed a counterattacking 91 off 88 deliveries while Cheteshwar Pujara compiled 73 off 143 balls to bail India out from a precarious 73 for four.
However, Bess again gave his team the upper hand when he sent back both Pujara and Pant in the day’s last session.
INDIA 1ST INNINGS
| BATSMEN | R | B | M | 4s | 6s | SR | |||
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| Rohit Sharma | c †Buttler b Archer | 6 | 9 | 15 | 1 | 0 | 66.67 | ||
| Shubman Gill | c Anderson b Archer | 29 | 28 | 47 | 5 | 0 | 103.57 | ||
| Cheteshwar Pujara | c Burns b Bess | 73 | 143 | 222 | 11 | 0 | 51.05 | ||
| Virat Kohli (c) | c Pope b Bess | 11 | 48 | 69 | 0 | 0 | 22.92 | ||
| Ajinkya Rahane | c Root b Bess | 1 | 6 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 16.67 | ||
| Rishabh Pant † | c Leach b Bess | 91 | 88 | 137 | 9 | 5 | 103.41 | ||
| Washington Sundar | not out | 33 | 68 | – | 5 | 0 | 48.53 | ||
| Ravichandran Ashwin | not out | 8 | 54 | – | 0 | 0 | 14.81 | ||
| Extras | (b 4, lb 1) | 5 | |||||||
| TOTAL | (74 Ov, RR: 3.47) | 257/6 | |||||||
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Yet to bat: Jasprit Bumrah, Ishant Sharma, Shahbaz Nadeem
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Fall of wickets: 1-19 (Rohit Sharma, 3.3 ov), 2-44 (Shubman Gill, 9.2 ov), 3-71 (Virat Kohli, 24.4 ov), 4-73 (Ajinkya Rahane, 26.3 ov), 5-192 (Cheteshwar Pujara, 50.4 ov), 6-225 (Rishabh Pant, 56.4 ov)
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| BOWLING | O | M | R | W | ECON | WD | NB |
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| James Anderson | 11 | 3 | 34 | 0 | 3.09 | 0 | 0 |
| Jofra Archer | 16 | 3 | 52 | 2 | 3.25 | 0 | 0 |
| Ben Stokes | 6 | 1 | 16 | 0 | 2.67 | 0 | 0 |
| Jack Leach | 17 | 2 | 94 | 0 | 5.53 | 0 | 0 |
| Dom Bess | 23 | 5 | 55 | 4 | 2.39 | 0 | 0 |
| Joe Root | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1.00 | 0 | 0 |
At the tea break, India’s score reads 154/4, trailing the visitors by 424 runs. For the hosts, Rishabh Pant and Cheteshwar Pujara are currently unbeaten on 54 and 53 respectively. The second session on day three saw 95 runs being scored in 27 overs. Resuming the second session on day three at 59/2, India was not able to score free-flowing runs and both Kohli and Pujara were bogged down and this brought about Kohli’s (11) dismissal in the 25th over of the innings. The Indian skipper was sent back to the pavilion by Dom Bess and this wicket brought Ajinkya Rahane to the middle.
Earlier in the first session on day three, Rohit Sharma (6) and Shubman Gill (29) failed to get going as they were dismissed by Jofra Archer after England posted a total of 578.