IND vs Engbaston Test 2025 Day 3 Analysis: DSP Mohammad Siraj’s deadly bowling (6 wickets) kept India in a strong position in the second Test against England on the third day. He also got the support of Akash Deep. Although the performance of the rest of the Indian bowlers was very poor, their British batsmen fiercely ragged.
In response to 578 runs in India’s first innings, England team was reduced to 407 runs. Siraj and Akash Deep (4/88) held England’s last 5 wickets for just 20 runs. India got a significant lead of 180 runs on the basis of first innings.
By the end of the day’s play, India had scored 64/1 runs in 13 overs in the second innings and the total lead was 244 runs. Yashasvi Jaiswal was dismissed for 28 runs, while KL Rahul 28* and Karun Nair 7* are frozen at the crease. Now on the fourth day (July 5) India can give a big target to England by scoring fast. The match is at an exciting turn.
The stormy innings of British winner batsman Jamie Smith (184) and Harry Brook (158) threatened India’s lead for some time. Where both of them were feeling, they were beating the Indian bowlers there.
Famous Krishna did a lot
On the third day, the rest of India’s bowlers, especially Krishna, did a lot of disrespect. Looking at them, they did not feel that they are in the mode taking wickets from anywhere. He gave 72 runs in 13 overs from an economy of 5.53, which does not look accurate from anywhere in Test cricket, while his overall economy rate is 5.07 in Test cricket, which does not sit on any standards. While Bumrah’s ODI economy rate is 4.59.
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Jamie Smith became England’s fastest Test century Keeper
On the third day, Siraj gave the initial shocks to England by dismissing Joe Root (22) and Ben Stokes (0) on two consecutive balls. England’s score was 84/5 at that time. But Smith and Brook shared a record of 303 runs in 368 balls.
Smith completed the second century of his Test career in just 80 balls and became the fastest wicketkeeper for England. During this, he made many aggressive shots and targeted spinners Ravindra Jadeja and Washington Sundar.
Jadeja, Sundar, Krishna, Reddy all fail
Siraj took a total of 6 wickets while doing amazing with the new ball. Akash Deep also took England’s innings with Brooke’s important wicket. But Indian spinners Ravindra Jadeja and Washington beautiful were not impressive. On the third day of the Edgbaston Test, four main bowlers of India proved to be completely unsuccessful. The famous Krishna did not take any wicket for 72 runs in 13 overs and his economy was 5.53, which gave England batsmen a chance to score fast. Nitish Kumar Reddy gave 29 runs in 6 overs but he also failed to take wickets.
The spinners also did not perform as expected. Jadeja Jadeja spent 70 runs in 17 overs and did not get any success, while Washington Sundar conceded 73 runs in 14 overs and he also proved to be ineffective.
Indian team also left catches at Edgbaston
In the match in Leeds (Headingley), the Indian team had dripped a lot of catches, their problems also persisted during the first innings of England Test. Actually, India got wicket opportunities twice, when Rishabh Pant left a difficult catch of Smith and Shubman Gill dropped Brook’s catch.
- In 53.1 overs, Jamie Smith’s shot off Nitish’s ball went towards the slip with the edge of the bat, but the ball left near the wicketkeeper Rishabh Pant. Pant tried to catch the dive, even touched the ball from the fingers, but could not take it. This was a very difficult opportunity, Pant looked angry with himself.
- At the same time, when Harry Brook was on 64 runs in 36.2 overs, captain Gill dripped the catch of Harry Brook on Jadeja’s ball. The ball was spinned by a pitch outside the off stump, Brook tried to play the drive loudly, went towards Shubman Gill standing in the slip, but he was falling backwards and could not lift his hand on time, the ball hit his head and went backwards.
Indian team for Edgbaston: Yashasvi Jaiswal, KL Rahul, Karun Nair, Shubman Gill (captain), Rishabh Pant (wicketkeeper), Nitish Kumar Reddy, Ravindra Jadeja, Washington Sundar, Akash Deep, Mohammad Siraj, famous Krishna
England’s playing at Edgbaston 11: Jack Craulie, Ben Docket, Oli Pope, Joe Root, Harry Brook, Ben Stokes (Captain), Jamie Smith (wicket -keeper), Chris Woakes, Bridan Cars, Josh Tung, Shoaib Bashir
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