🏏England tour of India 2024: 5th Test: 07 - 11 March 2024 - Day 3🏏 - Page 43

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6 runs

ENG: 76/3

CRR: 5.06

JM Bairstow

26 (21)

JE Root

22 (25)

RA Jadeja

2-0-10-0

R Ashwin

7-0-42-3

My colleague Raju quips "Whenever Jonny comes out in full sleeves he makes something happen. He batted in short sleeves in the first innings."

Good partnership between Root and Bairstow. Attacking the spinners.

"Ahh Root playing his busy cricket and YJB smashing it. What this series could have been..." muses Mudit. It should be remembered as one of the more competitive 4-1s, I think

"That be 6000 runs for Jonny on his 100th." Well spotted, Aychess

"What are we on right now? Flat pitch or spinner's paradise or a dust bowl? The magic pitch seems to change every innings/session per the TV pundits." Still pretty good for batting, I'd say, Attila. But some turn for those who know how to find it

Bairstow OUT

B Kuldeep

England 92/4.

Bairstow looks very upset.

OUT !! Bairstow is out. The fight is over! Eng --92/4

Kuldeep Yadav to Bairstow, out Lbw!! That is the end of the entertainment from Jonny B. What what a brilliant set-up from Kuldeep. Bairstow lbw b Kuldeep Yadav 39(31) [4s-3 6s-3]

Kuldeep Yadav to Bairstow, THATS OUT!! Lbw!!

Given OUT LBW and Bairstow reviews. Did it spin too much? No bat involved for sure. Oh this looks adjacent. Impact almost on middle. How about height? Ump's call it is!

17.4

Kuldeep Yadav to Bairstow, out Lbw!! That is the end of the entertainment from Jonny B. What what a brilliant set-up from Kuldeep. He bowled the first two balls to Bairstow at a similar place but he angled/turned it away from the right-hander to force him into to playing through the off-side off the back foot. Bairstow lbw b Kuldeep Yadav 39(31) [4s-3 6s-3]

Kuldeep Yadav to Bairstow, THATS OUT!! Lbw!!

STAT: Bairstow's second six was the 101st maximum of the series. The previous record for most sixes in a Test series was 74 in The Ashes 2023.