Even England Spinners Seem Like Muttiah Muralitharan in Home Conditions: Ravindra Jadeja

To add to his accolades, Hameed displayed plenty of guts to come out to bat at No 8 in the second innings of the England reply in Mohali.

England’s Ben Stokes plays a shot on the third day of the third test against India in Mohali, India, Monday, Nov. 28.

Both Kohli and Yuvraj are good friends and have played together for India and Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) in the Indian Premier League (IPL). He scored 78 in the second innings which was his sixth fifty against India, in addition to his three centuries.

Jonny Bairstow admits that England were outclassed on day three of the third Test against India, but claims his side have what it takes to battle back in Mohali. The only other venue where they’ve had a longer run is at the Brabourne Stadium in Mumbai – where they were unbeaten in 13 Tests between December 1948 and March 1965.

He at least passed Aussie great Steve Waugh’s mark of 10,927 to become the 10th highest runscorer in the history of Test cricket.

On a day when Bairstow effected his 68th dismissal of the calendar year – a Test record – England slumped to 78-4 at the close, still trailing India by 56 runs.

Speaking about his trademark celebration after reaching his half-century landmark, Jadeja remarked: “It’s a traditional Rajput style”. India finally broke the partnership and ended England’s innings when Anderson was run out trying to scamper for a double.

Chasing a paltry target of 103, Patel started off India’s second innings in confident fashion with a boundary through the covers off Woakes.

Vijay, howver, continued his run of poor form, edging Woakes to Joe Root at second slip later in the same over.

12 Number of Tests wins by Virat Kohli as captain – equals the most won by any India captain in his first 20 Tests.

India, 271-6 overnight, were bowled out for 417 in the afternoon session, prompting the umpires to call for early tea at the Punjab Cricket Association ground.

He was all praise for his three spinners Ravichandran Ashwin, Jayant Yadav and Ravindra Jadeja, who also starred with the bat down the order.

England’s woes seemed to get worsened with opener Haseeb Hameed still nursing a hand injury and it will be interesting to see whether the 19-year-old right-hander will come out to bat on the penultimate day. The left-armer spun the ball from around the off stump which took an outside edge of Root’s bat and was caught by Ajinkya Rahane in the slips. They put on 97 runs for the seventh wicket as England looked listless on the field. “If wickets come, they come, if they don’t then (it’s not) big deal”, Rashid said at the media conference after the opening day’s play. England then went into the lunch break at 156/7 with Chris Woakes and Hameed at the crease.

England captain Alastair Cook felt being bowled out for 283 in the first innings set them back. (Adil) Rashid scored a heck of a lot of runs.