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IND vs ENG 2nd Take a look at Day 3: Red-sizzling Joe Root helps England nostril forward at Lord’s

LONDON: England captain Joe Root smashed an unbeaten 180 for his second hundred of the series to wait on his team eclipse India`s first innings complete of 364 on day three of the second Take a look at on Saturday. England were all out for 391, taking a slender 27-flee first innings lead, driving on Root`s majestic knock on an absorbing day of Take a look at cricket at Lord`s.

The 30-year-faded became the second English batsman after Alastair Cook to achieve 9000 Take a look at runs. His 22nd Take a look at hundred was once studded with 18 fours.

It was once a major turnaround for England who were reeling on 23-2 when Root walked out to bat on Friday. Having added 85 runs with Rory Burns to arrest the travel, Root forged a century partnership with Jonny Bairstow to extra consolidate England`s plan. They batted for the duration of the morning session, grand to the frustration of the Indian bowlers who tried all they could presumably well however upright could presumably well perchance no longer separate them. 

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Whereas Root, who scored 64 and 109 within the drawn series opener in Nottingham, maintained his red-sizzling originate, Bairstow regained his mojo with a combating 57, his first test fifty in 20 innings. Mohammed Siraj (4-94) had Bairstow caught within the wander after cramping him for room as the batsman tried to pull a short-pitched supply from around the wicket.

Root, who has scored bigger than 27% of England`s runs in 2021, introduced up his hundred with a tight single off Jasprit Bumrah. The 30-year-faded took off his helmet and soaked within the applause from the crowd before being embraced by Jos Buttler. 

Ishant Sharma (3-69) sent help Moeen Ali and Sam Curran in successive deliveries however Root saved going at the different waste.

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Realising he was once running out of companions, Root played a cheeky reverse ramp shot in opposition to Siraj to achieve a boundary over the wander cordon, and adopted it with a second successive four.


James Anderson survived a 10-ball over from Bumrah however misplaced his off-stump to Mohammed Shami to be the final man out.  

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