India’s bowler Ravichandran Ashwin celebrates the wicket of England’s batter Ben Duckett during the third day of the second Test match between India and England, at Dr Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy ACA-VDCA Cricket Stadium, in Visakhapatnam, Sunday, Feb. 4, 2024. (PTI Photo)
IND vs ENG Highlights, 2nd Test Day 3 Today: Zack Crawley and Rehan Ahmed are unbeaten at the stumps at the end of Day 3 at Dr. Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy ACA-VDCA Cricket Stadium in Visakhapatnam. England still need 332 to win the match. Ben Duckett is the only wicket to fall and off-spinner R Ashwin gave India the breakthrough.
Earlier Shubman Gill made a sublime ton for India to take them to 255 in the second innings. Tom Hartley was the pick of the bowlers for England with four wickets. On Day 2 Jasprit Bumrah blitzed through the England batting lineup on Day 2 which restricted England to just 253, Indian openers Rohit Sharma and Yashasvi Jaiswal will hope to extend the home team’s lead further on Sunday. Jaiswal who scored a scintillating 209 to start the second day had to come in to bat the very same day due to England being shot out by the Indian bowlers.
Opener Crawley (76) and captain Ben Stokes (47) were the only two England batters who could face the Indian bowlers with the others simply wilted under the heat. Bumrah took 6/45 and was complimented by Kuldeep Yadav who took 3/71.
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India vs England 2nd Test Day 3 Highlights: Follow the highlights from Dr. Y.S.Rajashekar Reddy ACA-VDCA International Cricket Stadium in Visakhapatnam.
England’s Ollie Pope is bowled out by India’s Jasprit Bumrah. (Reuters)
IND vs ENG: Bumrah stuns Pope with magic yorker, makes Root his bunny to leave India on top in second Test
In the few seconds it took for the ball to leave Jasprit Bumrah’s hands and reach Ollie Pope it had turned into a fireball. From the moment it was released, it seemed to have only one purpose — to explode. On search engines, this is the delivery that AI would put out as an example for reverse-swinging yorker. In a spell on either side of tea that read 6-4-3-3 , and included wickets of Joe Root and Jonny Bairstow, Bumrah shoved England out of the way to seize a 143-run lead for India.
If facing an all-time freak isn’t hard enough, Pope had to do so while factoring the reverse-swing as well in the 28th over of the innings. He probably doesn’t know which side the shine of the ball is. Even if he had a vague idea, he can’t be certain which side the ball is going to shape once it lands. He has a split second to figure all of this and protect his wicket. Having seen Joe Root being worked out and having withstood a storm himself a week ago in Hyderabad of Bumrah, he has to do it all over again. He doesn’t even resemble the batsman who made 196 runs a week ago.
As the fireball got more and more closer, curving ferociously inwards, Pope knew this was a meteor, and he braced for the inevitable. To his credit there was nothing else he could have done better to preserve his wicket but this wasn’t just another yorker, where he was beaten for pace. (READ MORE)
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First uploaded on: 04-02-2024 at 08:01 IST