{"id":9186,"date":"2025-06-22T10:18:56","date_gmt":"2025-06-22T10:18:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=9186"},"modified":"2025-06-22T10:18:56","modified_gmt":"2025-06-22T10:18:56","slug":"england-v-india-first-mens-cricket-test-day-three-live-england-v-india-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=9186","title":{"rendered":"England v India: first men\u2019s cricket Test, day three \u2013 live | England v India 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"

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52nd over: England 227-4 (Brook 10, Stokes 2) <\/strong>The new batter is Ben Stokes, who is quietly in a bit of a lean trot. Since his last Test hundred, that dead-eyed rampage at Lord\u2019s two years ago, he\u2019s made 802 runs at an average of 29.70.<\/p>\n

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WICKET! England 225-4 (Pope c Pant b Krishna 106)<\/h2>\n

A big wicket for India, not least because Jasprit Bumrah didn\u2019t take it. Pope tries to cut a short, wide delivery from Krishna that gets big enough to brush the top edge and race through to Rishabh Pant. That\u2019s a frustrating end to a quite outstanding innings.<\/p>\n

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51st over: England 225-3 (Pope 106, Brook 10) <\/strong>Bumrah\u2019s first ball is a loosener that Pope flicks behind square for four. A single gives Bumrah two deliveries at Brook; both are defended solidly.<\/p>\n

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50th over: England 220-3 (Pope 101, Brook 10) <\/strong>Prasidh Krishna opens the bowling from the Not Bumrah End. Brook misses a windy drive, slaps a cut for four to get off the mark \u2013 and then pulls mightily over midwicket for six<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Well that escalated quickly: one moment Brook had 0 from 15 balls, now he\u2019s on 10 from 17.<\/p>\n

<\/span>England’s Harry Brook puts on his helmet before the start of the day’s play.<\/span> Photograph: Ed Sykes\/Action Images\/ReutersShare<\/p>\n

Updated at\u00a006.10 EDT<\/p>\n

The players line up for a minute\u2019s applause in memory of Syd Lawrence.<\/strong> Motor neurone disease sounds unimaginably horrific. You can read about it \u2013 or watch the Australian show Mr Inbetween, which has an astonishing portrayal of a man with MND \u2013 but I can\u2019t imagine anything prepares a family for the impact it has.<\/p>\n

<\/span>The England team pay tribute to David \u2018Syd\u2019 Lawrence.<\/span> Photograph: George Wood\/Getty Images<\/span>As do the spectators at Headingley.<\/span> Photograph: Darren Staples\/AFP\/Getty ImagesShare<\/p>\n

Updated at\u00a006.07 EDT<\/p>\n

Ben Duckett on Ollie Pope<\/strong><\/p>\n

He was just so calm coming out. He probably couldn\u2019t come out in tougher conditions, with Jasprit Bumrah running down the hill with the lights on. I don\u2019t know what\u2019s inside his head, but he\u2019s just stayed true to the way he plays, and there\u2019s no better feeling than that, scoring a hundred against that attack, coming out in the first over. You could see it in the way he celebrated, and it didn\u2019t just mean a lot to him, it meant a huge amount in the dressing room as well. I had goosebumps for him.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI know people don\u2019t like the term \u2018Bazball\u2019<\/strong> but it\u2019s much more than just \u2018positive cricket\u2019,\u201d says Gary Naylor. \u201cEngland are reaping the benefit of one of its tenets \u2013 that it\u2019s better to risk picking a player for one Test too many rather than one too few \u2013 with that superb ton yesterday. The commentators on the highlights could barely conceal their disappointment that Jacob Bethell (professional centuries 0) was not in for Ollie Pope (professional centuries 32) at No3. Bazball also demands wicket-takers and Josh Tongue did his job, as the last four Indian wickets added just 18. Meanwhile, Kuldeep Yadav looks on as Shadul Thakur bowls his overs.\u201d<\/p>\n

I would who the hell do you think you are, Naylor<\/em> politely disagree on Bethell. Everybody I heard though Pope was right to keep his place, and there was so much warmth towards him yesterday. I\u2019m as obsessed with Bethell as anyone \u2013 I was there, in New Zealand, when he made that 10 at Christchurch* \u2013 but there are very few precedents for 21-year-olds thriving in such a key position so it\u2019s fine to wait. I also think it was and is fair to query Pope\u2019s record against the best teams at No3. But like almost everyone, I was so happy for him yesterday.<\/p>\n

Kuldeep, though. I\u2019ve become world-class at sitting on the fence, straining to see both sides of any argument, but that one is beyond me.<\/p>\n

*Okay, I was writing the OBO at home in Whitstable. But I saw every ball!<\/em><\/p>\n

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\u201cBig day for Harry Brook, this,\u201d<\/strong> writes Phil Harrison. \u201cIf there\u2019s a serious chink in his armour, I suspect it\u2019s against the short stuff. He was incredibly lucky to get to stumps but Bumrah will work him over first thing \u2013 and Australia will be watching with great interest. Haven\u2019t looked forward to a day\u2019s Test cricket so much in years!\u201d<\/p>\n

One of my biggest concerns about the Ashes is how a number of England\u2019s batters \u2013 Duckett, Brook, Smith, potentially Bethell \u2013 will deal with the short ball on those huge grounds.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWhat awful news to start the day,\u201d<\/strong> writes Linda Gray. \u201cI logged on full of enthusiasm and anticipation for a great day\u2019s cricket and now I feel quite deflated with a tear in my eye. A lot of things about English cricket in the 1990s weren\u2019t the best but Syd was one of them.\u201d<\/p>\n

I can\u2019t really add much to that. He\u2019s one of the few cricketers about whom I never heard a bad word. Even the ones we love usually rub some people up the wrong way; not Syd.<\/p>\n

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Sounds daft now, but England\u2019s 2-2 draw at home to West Indies in 1991<\/strong> was that generation\u2019s equivalent of the 2005 Ashes. In this paper, Selve wrote that it \u201crepresents quite possibly the most stirring of post-war deeds and arguably the grandest of them all\u201d.<\/p>\n

Syd Lawrence played a key part in that, hustling a second-innings five-for on a flat Oval track. It was his first five-for in Tests \u2013 and his last. At Wellington A few months later, in the last session of a nailed-on draw in a series that had already been decided, he steamed in at full pelt, because that was all he knew. He suffered a fractured kneecap, one of the most horrific injuries ever seen (and heard) on a cricket field, and at 28 his career was effectively over.<\/p>\n

He was so indomitable that he made a brief comeback for Gloucestershire in 1997. Those four games, in which he took eight wickets at 45, are the greatest testament to his character.<\/p>\n

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Read Andy Bull on Jasprit Bumrah<\/h2>\n

The fielders finally held on to one in his third spell, when he had Joe Root caught at slip. Then in the final over he bounced out Harry Brook with what turned out to be a no ball. By stumps, he had taken three for 48, and it could easily have been double the first number. His teammates had none for 149 between them.<\/p>\n

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RIP Syd<\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/span>Gloucestershire legend David Lawrence and current captain James Bracey with the T20 Blast trophy after Gloucestershire\u2019s victory last summer.<\/span> Photograph: Gareth Copley\/ECB\/Getty ImagesShare<\/p>\n

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David Lawrence dies aged 61<\/h2>\n

Some desperately sad news this morning: David \u2018Syd\u2019 Lawrence, England fast bowler of the 1990s and one of the finest men ever to play the game, has died aged 61. He was diagnosed with motor neurone disease last year and his book, In Syd\u2019s Voice, was launched this week.<\/p>\n

We\u2019ll have more shortly but Taha wrote a terrific piece about him for The Spin last week. The headline is especially poignant.<\/p>\n

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Updated at\u00a005.53 EDT<\/p>\n

Preamble<\/h2>\n

Our thoughts at this time are with those who don\u2019t like Test cricket. What is wrong <\/em>with you losers? A pulsating second day at Headingley was the latest reminder that this is the greatest sporting format of all. Always has been (well, since 1877), always will be (well, until, you know).<\/p>\n

There\u2019s every chance today will be equally exhilarating, maybe even more so. England will resume on 209 for 3, a deficit of 262, with Ollie Pope on 100 and Harry Brook 0 not out in his second innings. Pope\u2019s century, his finest innings on home soil, was a gem.<\/p>\n

Once upon a time, defiant batting meant over-my-dead-body, but Pope \u2013 under so much pressure going into this game \u2013 breezed to a hundred from only 125 balls. The ovation he received was a lovely moment for one of the good guys.<\/p>\n

Oh, just one more thing. Jasprit Bumrah, bloody hell! He was almost a one-man attack yesterday, taking all three wickets and having Brook caught off a no-ball. Bumrah\u2019s overall Test record, 208 wickets at 19.35, is that of an all-time great, but in the last 18 months he has starting putting his tanks of SF Barnes\u2019 lawn.s<\/p>\n

For various reasons, Bumrah didn\u2019t play a Test between July 2022 and December 2023. Since his return at Centurion for the Boxing Day Test, he\u2019s taken 80 wickets in 16 Tests at an average of 15.13. It gets better: 14 of those 16 Tests have been against South Africa, Australia, New Zealand and England.<\/p>\n

Great bowlers have carried their teams in the past \u2013 Ilford 2nds and all that \u2013 but it\u2019s hard to remember the last time a team as good as India were so dependent on one bowler. Here\u2019s the breakdown since the start of the Border\/Gavaskar Trophy in November.<\/p>\n

Bumrah\u2019s spell this morning will set the tone for the rest of the day, the rest of the match, maybe the rest of the series.<\/p>\n

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