ENG vs IND Oval Test 3rd Day Report: Mohammad Siraj In the Oval Test, both England and India are trying their best to win. The third day’s play in the match is over, which was completely in the name of Team India. India has set a target of 374 runs for England to win by scoring 396 runs in their second innings. Like the first innings, England’s start was looking very good in the second innings as well, but in the end Mohammad Siraj spoiled it by bowling out Jack Crowley.
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Mohammad Siraj: Indian team scored 396 runs in the second innings
Mohammad Siraj: At the beginning of the third day, when Team India started playing ahead of the score of 52/2, the pair of Jaiswal and Akashdeep were seen doing tremendous work. Akashdeep, who came in as a nightwatchman, played a brilliant innings of 66 runs. During this, he was successful in hitting 12 fours. Such an innings by a bowler is seen on very rare occasions.
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After his dismissal, Jaiswal completed his century and returned to the pavilion after contributing 118 runs. He hit 14 fours and 2 sixes. After this, Washington Sundar completed the remaining task in the end. When the centurion of the last match saw that the team had lost 9 wickets, he changed gears and scored 53 runs in 46 balls. In this way, India’s second innings ended at 396 runs. In this innings, Josh Tongue took the maximum 5 wickets for England.
Mohammed Siraj gave the first blow to England
England’s start in the second innings was looking very good. Crawley and Duckett were beating the Indian bowlers. India needed at least one wicket before the end of the day’s play, which was fulfilled by Mohammed Siraj. He gave India the first success by bowling out Crawley on a personal score of 14 runs. By the end of the day’s play, England scored 50/1. Now India will have to take 9 more wickets to win the match.
