🏏India tour of England 2025: 5th Test: Eng vs India- Oval, Day 5🏏 - Page 21

ENG 247

IND 224 & 225/4 (53.5)

CRR: 4.18

Day 3: 2nd Session - India lead by 202 runs

Partnership: 36(59)

Last Wkt: Shubman Gill lbw b Atkinson 11(9) - 189/4 in 44.1 ov.

Ovs Left: 62

Last 10 overs: 36 runs, 1 wkts

Toss: England (Bowling)

Atkinson to Karun Nair, out Caught by Jamie Smith!! Gone now!! On a length and hits the deck hard, generates steep bounce and surprises Karun Nair. Karun Nair c Jamie Smith b Atkinson 17(32) [4s-3]

Atkinson to Karun Nair, THATS OUT!! Caught!!

Nair is unable to utilise the given opportunity!

The pitch has quickened up a bit and the ball is moving around as expected, much like yesterday's second session. England have been a lot more disciplined as well but the odd stray ball is being punished. They also need to find a way of plugging the boundaries towards fine leg. Let's see how the game proceeds!

Tongue to Jadeja, byes, FOUR, full and swinging down leg, Jadeja doesn't get bat on it, Smith dives to the right but doesn't manage to stop it.

India 268/5 in their second innings.

Jaiswal out 118 💔 💔

Well played...💙💙

Jadeja not out ....

Tongue to Jadeja, THATS OUT!! Lbw!!

Oh killer of a toe-crusher. Given OUT LBW

Umpire Kumar Dharmasena walks down the pitch again to have a look at Tongue's followthrough

Jadeja not out

Century for Jaiswal he played well. Akash deep too. Now its upto Jadeja n Jurel. Plz tike raho. Nazar na lage

Most 300-plus totals in a Test series

14 - The Ashes, 1928/29

13 - West Indies in Australia, 1975/76

13 - The Ashes, 1993

13 - India in England, 2025*

New ball is 9 overs away. India will be look at to set a target of at least 350 and they will definitely look to accelerate before the new ball becomes available.

India growing stronger and stronger - 114 runs in the morning, 115 runs now. England will not be happy with their bowling. They weren't consistent enough with his lines and lengths. Pitch surely is slightly more easier to bat as the ball gets soft but there is still lateral movement available. A bowler down, the three pacers struggled to keep it tight. The ease with which Jurel is batting will please the Indian dressing room. Jadeja continues his outings with the bat in this country. Jaiswal set it up earlier with a lovely hundred - four of his six Test hundreds have now come against England. Atkinson removed Gill and Karun cheaply but these two combined well to get the board moving again. Jadeja was given out LBW but he overturned the call with the lone review India had.