The third Test match between India and England is being played at Lord's Lord's Stadium. India's wicketkeeper Rishabh Pant was injured on the first day of the match on Thursday. Instead, Dhruv Jureel handled wicketkeeping. Nitish Reddy took 2 wickets in his first over. If Root completed 3,000 Test runs against India.
Moments of the first day of the Lord's Test …
1. Tendulkar started the match playing the bell At the historic Lord's Stadium, Lord Sachin Tendulkar started the match by playing a bell. The national anthem of the two countries was sung as soon as the bell rang, and shortly afterwards the first ball of the match was thrown.
Sachin Tendulkar started the match by playing a bell at the Lord's Stadium.
2. Sachin's picture at the MCC Museum Sachin Tendulkar's picture was posted at the MCC Museum of Cricket in London. Tendulkar's picture was inaugurated before the match began. Sachin's photo taken in 2007 was drawn by Stewart Pearson Wright. This photo will be in the MCC Museum by the end of the year, which will be brought to the Lord's Pavilion in 2026.
Sachin Tendulkar with his picture at the MCC Museum.
3. Reddy took 2 wickets in the first over Nitish Kumar Reddy came to bowl for the first time in the 14th over. He sent the pavilion to both England openers in this over. Reddy threw a bouncer to Ben Ducket on the third ball of the over and caught it by wicketkeeper Pant. He also caught Jack Crawley on the last ball of the over.
On the fourth ball of the same over, captain Shubhman Gill missed Oli Pope's catch in the street position. Reddy threw an outswinger at the good length outside the stump. The pop went to drive, but the ball went to Gill. He dive and tried to catch the ball, but the ball slipped out of his hand.
Nitish Kumar Reddy sent the pavilion to English openers in the same over.
4. Pant was injured, Jurelle kept wickets Wicketkeeper Rishabh Pant was injured while wicketkeeping on Jasprit Bumrah's bowling in the 34th over. Bumrah threw the ball out of the leg stump, Pant dive and tried to catch the ball, but the ball hit his hand and went to the boundary.
Pant was injured in the finger, the team's physio came to check him and took Pant with him. From the 35th over, the 12th player Dhruv Jurelle kept the wicket instead of Pant. He also caught Oli Pope's catch.
5. Root completed 3 thousand Test runs against India England's middle order Better Joe Root completed 3,000 runs in Test against India. He is also the highest scorer against India. Root finished 3,000 Test runs with 45th run in his innings. Route became the only 9th player in the world to score more than 3,000 Test runs against a team.
On the first day of the match, Root also scored a fifty. This is the 67th half century of his Test career. He is now only 2 Fifty away from Sachin Tendulkar in the record of scoring the highest Fifty in the Test. There are 68 Test Fifty in the name of Sachin.
Joe Root is also the highest scorer for England.
6. Jadeja provoked the route to take a run Akashdeep first put the 83rd and last over the day. He threw out the fourth ball of the over. If the Root played a cut shot and went to Ravindra Jadeja standing at the ball deep backward point. Root finished a run, meanwhile Jadeja took the ball.
Jadeja then provoked the route to run for one more run and he put the ball on the ground. The route reached half the pitch, but at the other end, Ben Stokes did not move. The route got only 1 run and till the end of the day's game he remained notout at 99 runs.
Ravindra Jadeja Joe Root provoked to take another run
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