Jasprit Bumrah picks a five-wicket haul for 83 runs in 24.4 overs and helps India to take the lead. KL Rahul showed his class by playing an unbeaten knock of 47 runs in 75 balls in the last session and, along with captain Shubman Gill, will be looking to set a huge target for the hosts in the first test. India’s lead is 96 runs and on Day 3 we witnessed a lot of records being shattered.
Harry Brook’s bad luck
Harry Brook was dismissed for a duck by Bumrah on the last over of Day 2. But he escaped it because of a new ball. On the third day, he escaped from a few chances but still fell short of his 9th test century by just one run. He pulled the short ball of Prasidh Krishna and got caught by Shardul Thakur on deep square leg.
He became the fourth batter to be dismissed at 99 in test matches between India and England :
Batters to get out on 99 in test matches between IND & ENG :
- Marcus Trescothick at Ahmedabad ( 2001 )
- Sourav Ganguly at Nottingham ( 2002 )
- MS Dhoni at Nagpur ( 2012 )
- Harry Brook at Leeds ( 2025 )
Brook also became the 14th England player to get out on 99 in tests.
England batters to get out on 99 in tests :
- MJK Smith vs South Africa at Lord’s ( 1960 )
- MJK Smith vs Pakistan at Lahore ( 1961 )
- ER Dexter vs Australia at Brisbane ( 1962 )
- DL Amiss vs Pakistan at Karachi ( 1973 )
- G Boycott vs West Indies at Port of Spain ( 1974 )
- GA Gooch vs Australia at Melbourne ( 1980 )
- MD Moxon vs New Zealand at Auckland ( 1988 )
- MA Atherton vs Australia at Lord’s ( 1993 )
- MA Atherton vs South Africa at Leeds ( 1994 )
- ME Trescothick vs India at Ahmedabad ( 2001 )
- KP Pietersen vs Bangladesh at Chattagrom ( 2010 )
- JM Bairstow vs South Africa at Manchester ( 2017 )
- Harry Brook vs India at Leeds ( 2025 )
Leeds is the home town for Harry Brook. He also became the first English Batter to get dismissed on 99 in his home ground.
Jasprit Bumrah Magic
Jasprit Bumrah went Wasim Akram in the record of most wickets in SENA test matches by an Asian bowler on Day 2. Yesterday, Jasprit Bumrah became the Asian bowler to pick 150 test wickets in SENA conditions. This is also his third fifer in England and 1st fifer outside Nottingham.
Jasprit Bumrah previous fifers in England came at Nottingham in 2018 and 2021. This is overall Jasprit Bumrah 14th fifer in tests. 12 of them came in away test matches. Jasprit Bumrah is now at the 7th place in the list of most fifers for India in test cricket.
Most fifers for India in tests :
- R Ashwin – 37 ( 106 matches )
- A Kumble – 35 ( 132 matches )
- Harbhajan Singh – 25 ( 103 matches )
- Kapil Dev – 23 ( 131 matches )
- BS Chandrasekhar – 16 ( 58 matches )
- R Jadeja – 15 ( 81 matches )
- Jasprit Bumrah – 14 ( 46 matches )
- Bishen Singh Bedi – 14 ( 67 matches )
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