Cricket – Worldwide Take a look at Match Collection – Third Take a look at – England v India – Lord’s Cricket Floor, London, Britain – July 14, 2025 England’s Shoaib Bashir and Zak Crawley have fun after the match. — Reuters
England beat India by 22 runs to win an exhilarating third Take a look at at Lord´s on Monday as they went 2-1 up in a five-match sequence.
India had been getting ready to defeat at 147-9, nonetheless needing an additional 46 runs to succeed in a victory goal of 193, when final man Mohammed Siraj joined Ravindra Jadeja within the center.
However, the pair batted on till after tea on the ultimate day to present India hope of an unbelievable win.
However with India in sight of simply their fourth win in 20 Exams at Lord’s, Siraj performed on to off-spinner Shoaib Bashir — off the sector for a lot of the match with a finger damage — with the ball simply dislodging the leg bail to the batsman’s seen despair.
Jadeja was left stranded on 61 not out — the all-rounder’s fourth consecutive fifty this sequence — after taking India to nearby of what would have been a shocking success earlier than they had been all out for 170.
England captain Ben Stokes bowled two prolonged spell Monday on his option to an innings return of 3-48, with quick bowler Jofra Archer — in his first Take a look at after greater than 4 years of damage induced exile — taking 3-55.
India had been all however overwhelmed at 112-8 when tailender Jasprit Bumrah got here out to bat instantly after lunch.
However Jadeja and Bumrah stored England at bay with a cussed stand of 35 in 22 overs.
Bumrah, defying a run of 4 successive noughts in Take a look at cricket, defended gamely whereas making 5 in 54 balls just for his innings to finish when he top-edged a pull off Stokes to substitute fielder Sam Prepare dinner at mid-on.
India had been now 147-9 — a place that meant tea was delayed by half-hour.
However Jadeja, who overturned an lbw determination given in opposition to him on 26, went to fifty when a flashing minimize off Stokes flew over the slips for the left-hander’s fourth 4 in 150 balls confronted.
Shortly after tea, Archer struck Siraj a painful blow on the shoulder and it was not lengthy earlier than he fell to Bashir.
This match grew to become a second-innings shoot-out after each groups made 387 of their first innings.
England then posted 192 earlier than India slumped to 58-4 when Stokes bowled nightwatchman Akash Deep with what grew to become the final ball of Sunday’s play.
Bumrah resistance
From 71-4 on Monday, the match swung England’s manner as soon as extra as India misplaced three wickets for 11 runs in collapsing to 82-7.
Bumrah, the world’s top-ranked Take a look at bowler, took 5-74 in England’s first innings after being rested from India’s dominant 336-run win within the second Take a look at at Edgbaston.
However in 46 Exams earlier than this match he averaged a mere 6.77 with the bat.
However, Bumrah bought off the mark on Monday with a powerful pulled 4 off Archer by a vacant midwicket.
England thought they’d dismissed Jadeja for 26 when he was given out on the sector lbw to Chris Woakes. However Jadeja’s assessment indicated that affect had been made marginally outdoors off stump and the choice was overturned.
Subsequent ball, the left-hander launched Woakes for an enormous six over midwicket.
Earlier, Rishabh Pant — who solely got here into bat on Monday following Deep’s departure — charged down the pitch to drive Archer for a usually aggressive 4.
However two balls later Archer, repeatedly topping the 90 mph mark, bowled dangerman Pant for 9 with an excellent full-length supply that clipped the highest of off stump.
India had been seeking to KL Rahul to anchor their chase following the opener’s first-innings hundred.
However Rahul had added simply six runs to his in a single day 33 when he was lbw on assessment to full of life medium-pacer Stokes after getting too far throughout his stumps.
Archer, who starred in England’s 2019 World Cup remaining win at Lord’s and made his Take a look at debut on the northwest London floor that very same season, then struck once more.
The 30-year-old lowered India to 82-7 when he held a pointy one-handed caught to dismiss Washington Sundar for a duck.
