England batsmen harassed Team India throughout the day.Image Credit Source: PTI
The fourth Test in Manchester also proved to be bad for Team India, which has already laughed in the series against England. On the first day of the match, after the injury of Rishabh Pant, on the second day, he was killed for just 358 runs. If this was not enough, then after that the England batsmen started beating the Indian bowlers as soon as they came and this series continued for the third day, which proved to be the worst for the Indian team. The condition was that after 10 years, Team India had to face a score of more than 500 runs in an innings.
Team India saw such a day after 10 years
On the third day of the Test match at the Old Trafford Stadium, England started furthering their innings by 225 runs. Joe Root and Oli Pope had taken the team beyond 300 runs in the first session itself. During this, both of them also scored half -centuries. The Pope was dismissed in the second session, but Joe Root took the 38th Test century only by scoring a century. After this, captain Ben Stokes also harassed the Indian team and scored his first half -century in the series.
Joe Root and Ben Stokes jointly shared a great 152 runs for the fifth wicket. On this, England also crossed the 500 -run mark in the third session. Along with this, after almost 10 years, a score of more than 500 runs was scored against Team India in an innings of a Test match abroad. Earlier in January 2015, Australia scored more than 500 runs in an innings against Team India.
England repeated 77 years old history
Not only this, the four batsmen of the top order scored more than 70 runs in the first innings of this Test match for England. While Jack Crolye scored 84 runs, his opening partner Ben Docket scored 94 runs. Then the third Pope, who came at number three, was dismissed by 71 runs, while star batsman Joe Root scored a century. 150 runs came out of his bat. In this way, after 77 years, the top 4 batsmen of England did this wonders in a Test innings.
This was the condition of the third day
If we talk about the third day game, then it was completely in the name of England. England extended their innings on the second day by 225 runs and its batsmen got runs without any special trouble. The first root and the Pope formulated a century partnership. After this, Root along with captain Ben Stokes added 152 runs and brought the team to 500 runs. By the end of the day’s play, England scored 544 runs losing 7 wickets and thus took a lead of 186 runs.
