Motivational
22 Jul, 2025
Daniel Collins
IND vs ENG Highlights, India vs England 3rd Test Day 2: With India behind by 242 runs and England having taken 3 wickets, hard to say which team has their noses ahead — potentially England by a whisker. But a very interesting day of cricket on the second of this Lord's Test, setting up a real battle of wills for its remainder.
The second day of the third Test between India and England at the Lord's Cricket Ground might just be the moving day of the series, where one team is able to take an advantage. Joe Root is eyeing his 37th Test ton as the hosts look to pile on the runs on a slow and sluggish 22 yards. Root has Ben Stokes for company at the other end, and the two experienced campaigners will hope to take England's score past the 400-run mark after being 251/4 at stumps on Day 1. On the other hand, India will eye quick wickets in a bid to bundle out England inside 350.
India were let down by their pace trio of Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammed Siraj and Akash Deep. They were unable to strike consistently, and it says a lot about their performance that the best-performing bowler on the first day was Nitish Kumar Reddy. If not for the all-rounder's effort, the visitors would have been staring down the barrel in the third Test of the Anderson-Tendulkar Trophy.