Captain England Ben Stokes and Joe Root (PTI Photo/R Senthilkucar) (PTI07_10_2025_000539B) London: Under the blazing summer sun, on the pitch that curiously brownish overnight and in front of the wrapped Lord, one of the third test proved to be a paradox of everything this series was about this match. When England worked on 251/4 stumps, a conventional and persecuted test cricket returned. Both teams that got into the first two tests promised action thrillers on the edge of the seat. On Thursday they released a classic artistic film, and no team could pull away. It had to be Joe Root playing a leading role. He threw the championship class in how a hard test cricket really played. The Lord’s playground was the hardest in this series. It was slow, partly two -color and had some variable reflection with sufficient movement for sailors and grip for spinners throughout the day. People here in London said that Thursday felt like the hottest of this English summer. It was 31 degrees, but it could easily burn the skin. Conditions required out-and-out grind. The root launch to 99 out of 191 balls excelled from the package. He survived the jasprit Bumhrah’s probes, the cohesion of Mohammed Siri with a line and length, the unpredictability of Nitish Kumar Reddy and Ravindra Jadeja.
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When leaving the offensive cricket of the modern game, the years returned on Thursday. England seemed to have taken a step back from their cricket brand. One may argue that India may have made a serious blow to the English obedient philosophy of an ultra -aggressive cricket last week with a great victory in Edgbaston. It was obvious that England deviated from its main principles when Ben Stokes decided to first bat on the pitch that many believed that for pitching compared to flat decks in Leeds and Birmingham. The theory “My-Will-Chase-Anything” was inserted into the cabinet. Opener Zak Crawley tried to free himself in the first hour with a few switches to the Indian Pacers, but could not connect. But it was obvious that it was obvious intention to bat for a long time before BAT quickly, because Crawley and Ben Duckett survived the first hour of three main sailors India Bumhrah, Siraj and Akash Deep. It took Reddy to use the slope and sent back both opening in 14th place. That was the fastest game moved during the day.
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Root took control from there. England came up with a new gameplan. They didn’t want to go out of the way to move the game forward. They wanted to stay in the game for a long time. India in the second meeting went without a goal. But they never allowed the pressure to release. England went through the 26 consecutive dot balls. It was a distant idea to the last game. It seemed that the game stopped, but Root quietly gained the advantage and wore Indian pitch with a 109-run partnership with Ollie Pope for the third goal. Jadeja struck the first ball after tea with a ball that turned enough to get the Pope’s bat to replace Wicketkeeper Dhruv for 44 out of 104 balls. India seemed to have some dynamics in 172/4 when Bumrah violated Harry Brook’s defense at 11. India still came in England. But the two highest doughs did not want to give India any kind of opening. Stokes dropped the anchor and the root kept the resulting board. Englev will have an approach to the debate, mainly because of the claims they have made in their efforts to save a test cricket. But one cannot cause them for a cricket that they played to keep the Indians at bay on the first day.
