IND vsENG: India wins the third Test match by 203 runs
IND vsENG: India wins the third Test match by 203 runs
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London: After losing the first two matches, the Indian team has returned strongly with a huge win of 203 runs. India's hold had strengthened against English cricketers in the third Test on the fourth day of the match.

The English team started to chase the target of 521 runs in their second innings and they opened poorly as the openers Alastair Cook and Jennings returned quickly to pavilion. Cook scored 17 runs and Jennings lost his wicket on 13 runs. Both openers were dismissed by Ishant Sharma. Captain Joe Root, who came in to bat at number three, could not stay for long and caught by Bumrah's delivery on the personal score of 13 runs.

India has clawed back into the series to make it 2-1. This win is a much-needed confidence booster especially having been totally worn out at Lord's soil. The openers' job proved to be the major input in the first innings as Dhawan and Rahul added 60 in the first innings and that set the attitude after being put into bat. Captain Virat Kohli and Ajinkya Rahane then stitched together a match-defining partnership to take India to a decent 329.

Indian bowlers ran through England batting line-up on the fourth day of the third test at Trent Bridge. Interestingly seven of the total nine dismissals unfolded in the innings due to KL Rahul. An alert athlete and a tremendous fielder that he is, Rahul set a unique Test record with his impressive fielding in the Test match. He took four catches on the fourth day to take his catching tally to a sum of seven, hence creating a matchless record. Rahul in England's first innings had taken three catches to throw in the dismissals of Joe Root, Jonny Bairstow and Ben Stokes, he continued his astral fielding form there to grab four more catches on Tuesday.

Earlier a day Bumrah ran through the England middle-order in a superb spell of fast bowling with the second new ball to claim his second five-wicket haul.

Indian bowlers wreaked mess at the English batsmen due to Rahul and Bumrah’s instrumental role. He grabbed the catches of Alastair Cook, Root, Stokes and Stuart Broad to complete seven catches in the match. This is the first time when any Indian fielder has ever taken 7 catches in a Test match in the soil of England. Worth mention here Two of his four catches on the day 4 were off the bowling of Jasprit Bumrah while one each off Hardik Pandya, Mohammed Shami and Ishant Sharma.

England showed some hardiness in the fourth innings chasing 521. Buttler and Stokes tried the fight back but then Bumrah turned it around with the new ball in the final session of day 4 to help India settle the Test.

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