England batting line up fell like nine pins in the last session once their skipper was caught short of his crease when he attempted for the second run against a strong and moreover accurate arm of Indian skipper Virat Kohli. This was the beginning of a rampage by Indian bowlers as English batsman had no answers as they lost six wickets in the space of just 69 runs.
After dominating the first two sessions with good batting, England failed to finish the day well. As a result, tides turned and team India find themselves in a better position than England. Ravichandran Ashwin stood out in the bowling department as he picked four wickets displaying versatile bowling in difficult English conditions.
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England skipper Joe Root top scored with 80 runs along with Jonny Bairstow blistering knock of 70 runs in just 88 deliveries. Everything was going well before the error in judgement that proved costly for the home side. Dawid Malan and Jos Buttler fell cheaply as Shami and Ashwin got the respective wickets in no time after the departure of Root in the last session of the day. Bairstow perished playing a cut short against a clueless Umesh Yadav who had an off day apart from getting rid of the wicket keeper batsman.
Session wise England are ahead as they dominated two sessions but has to be said that India will on the ground with a more positive mindset than England. Indian wicket keeper Dinesh Karthik dropped Sam Curran in the last over of the day which could have been curtains for the English team.
Brief scores: 285/9 in 88 overs (Joe Root 80, Jonny Bairstow 70, Ravichandran Ashwin 25-7-60-4, Mohammad Shami 19-2-64-2)