India vs England: 1st Test, Day 3 – Review; Best Betting Odds for Day 4

Dom Bess. (Photo Source: BCCI)

Rishabh Pant’s flamboyance and Cheteshwar Pujara’s solidity lent some respectability to an otherwise disappointing performance with the willow by the Indian batsmen on Day 3 of the first Test against England at Chennai. While Pant scored a racing 88 ball 91, Pujara took his time, consuming 143 balls, and scored 73. Washington Sundar and Ravichandran Ashwin, both local boys, played out 17.2 overs as India ended the third Day with their scorecard reading 257/6. Check our recent  funbet review. And learn how we predict matches.

Except for Pujara and Pant, the rest of the Indian batting line up came a cropper. The Indian opening partnership lasted just 3.3 overs, as Jofra Archer removed Rohit Sharma. Sharma played at a probing delivery from Archer just outside off stump and nicked the red cherry to Jos Buttler behind the stumps. Shubman Gill dazzled in his brief 28 ball stay, before he chipped Archer straight to James Anderson at mid-on, and was dismissed for 29.

Virat Kohli made his awaited return back to the side, but the skipper’s return turned out to be a disappointing one. Kohli scratched around for 48 deliveries before Dom Bess dismissed him. Bess tossed the ball up, the ball spun in, Kohli went for a hard defensive prod, the ball took the inside edge and went straight to short leg. The skipper was dismissed for 11.

Ajinkya Rahane followed his skipper to the dressing room just 2 overs later, and a brilliant piece of fielding from skipper Joe Root brought about Rahane’s downfall. India’s vice-captain came down the track in a bid to clear the off-side field. But Root just flung himself to his left at the cover to pouch a stunner. Pant and Pujara kept England at bay for 24.1 overs, before Pujara was dismissed in an extremely unlucky fashion.

To a short delivery from Bess, India’s No.3 went for the pull, the ball ricocheted off the shoulder of the short leg fielder and went straight into the hands of mid-wicket. The final Indian wicket to fall in the day was Rishabh Pant. When he was just 9 runs short of a century, the left-hander went for an extravagant heave through the offside but spooned the cherry straight into the hands of cover.

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As far as England are concerned, Dom Bess was the pick of the bowlers, picking up 4 wickets, giving away just 55 runs. In the morning session, England played 10.1 overs, and added 23 runs to their overnight total, to amass a mammoth score of 578 in their first innings. And, the visitors are in the driver’s seat at the end of Day 3, with India still trailing by 321 runs in the first innings.

India vs England 1st Test – Betting Odds – Day 4