India’s first session concluded due to rain and the visitors had lost 2 wickets and were left with only 8 wickets to survive the beauty of Test cricket.
Virat Kohli and Hanuma Vihari had a job to do before India send in their middle order to smash some boundaries but the fate of King Kohli and inexperienced performance by Hanuma Vihari caused India a huge trouble.
Hanuma Vihari fell prey to heightened pacer Matty Potts who got the easy appeal to get Vihari out.
Virat Kohli’s hardluck continues after the inside edge during the delivery which Virat judged to leave came inside hitting the stumps, and more significantly give a big blow to the Indian fans
The only Test left to play in Birmingham is live and in action as Ben Stokes, skipper of team England won the toss to allow the visitors to bat first.
Team England will start by bowling first and the decision seems tactical enough to catch the attention that team India has not experienced a good time South Africa Test series and the abroad conditions have been not played much past these months and the home side will be looking to take advantage to it.
Team India leads the ongoing series since 2021, with 2-1 and the home side has a potential opportunity to equal the series and snatch away the historical win for the Asian side as well as Bumrah’s maiden win as a captain.
Teams:
India (Playing XI): Shubman Gill, Cheteshwar Pujara, Hanuma Vihari, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, Rishabh Pant(w), Ravindra Jadeja, Shardul Thakur, Mohammed Shami, Mohammed Siraj, Jasprit Bumrah(c)
England (Playing XI): Alex Lees, Zak Crawley, Ollie Pope, Joe Root, Jonny Bairstow, Ben Stokes(c), Sam Billings(w), Matty Potts, Stuart Broad, Jack Leach, James Anderson
