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India lost the third Test of Anderson-Tendulkar Trophy by 22 runs at Lord’s Stadium. Team India could score 170 runs on the last day of the match in front of the target of 193 runs. With this, England have taken a 2–1 lead in the 5 Test series.
The poor performance of the batter was the biggest reason in India’s defeat. Captain Shubman Gill, Yashasvi Jaiswal and Karun Nair flopped in both innings. At the same time, both the lower batters of the team could not do wonders with the bat in the innings. The bowling was strong, despite the team could not take the first innings. The return of Jofra Archer in the English team and losing the toss on Lord’s pitch also became the reason for India’s defeat. India also gave 63 extra runs.
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5 reasons for India’s defeat …
Reason-1: dependence on Rahul, Pant, Jadeja; Karun, famous, Shubman does not go While India’s batting was excellent in Leeds and Birmingham Tests, the team batting in Lord’s Test disappointed more. In the first 2 Tests, Shubman Gill scored 3 and Yashasvi Jaiswal scored 1 century. This time both of them could score only 39 runs. In the first 2 Tests, even 1 could not put fifty, Karun was also dismissed on the score of 40 and 16 runs.
The poor performance of Yashasvi, Shubman and Karun increased the dependence on KL Rahul, Rishabh Pant and Ravindra Jadeja. Rahul played innings of 100 and 39 runs. Pant made 74 in the first innings. At the same time, Jadeja played innings of 72 and 61 runs, but the three did not get the rest of the batter. So the team could not gain an edge in the first innings despite a strong position.
Opener Yashasvi Jaiswal could play only 15 balls in both innings.
Reason-2: Lower Order flop batting, colps in both innings In the first innings, the bowlers covered England on a low score of 387 runs. India’s score was 376/6 at one time, from here the team lost the last 4 wickets to score 11 runs. Only Rahul could score 39 runs in the second innings. Except him, Jadeja showed a little fight, the rest of the batter returned to the pavilion on a score of less than 15 runs.
India needed 193 runs to win the match in the second innings. Yashswi and Washington could not even open a beautiful account here. Nair scored 14, Shubman 6, Pant 9 and Nitish Reddy scored 13 runs. The team lost 4 wickets for 58 runs by the end of the fourth day play. Then also lost 3 wickets in scoring 24 runs in the first session of the fifth day. The team’s defeat was also confirmed as soon as the 8th wicket fell for 112 runs.
India lost the last 4 wickets in the first innings to score just 11 runs.
Reason-3: The pitch is hardening Lords’ pitch also became difficult for the batters by the end. On the first day, 251 runs were scored and 4 wickets fell. That is, on an average, 1 wicket fell in scoring 63 runs. The average on the second day reached 31. On the third day of the match, the average rose slightly to 35. On the fourth day, it came at 18.
On the fourth day, England lost 10 and India lost 4 wickets. Then in the first session of the fifth day, India lost 4 wickets to score 54 runs. That is, the average on the last day became just 14 runs. The major reason for the batsmen’s troubles was Lord’s bounce and swing. Which kept changing with every day. It is clear from the data that the pitch became difficult for batting. Therefore, England got the benefit of winning the toss and batting first.
Team India lost wickets early in the second innings due to the bounce up and down.
Reason-4: Return of Jofra Archer, Bowling of Stokes Fast bowler Jofra Archer has returned to England’s Test team after 4 years. He sent Yashasvi Jaiswal to the pavilion in his first over in the first innings. He threw 6 maidens in 23.2 overs and took 2 wickets from just 2.22 economy.
In second innings, Archer achieved excellent rhythm. He once again caught Yashasvi Jaiswal. Then on the fifth day of the match, Rishabh Pant and Washington Sundar were sent to the pavilion. He bowled Pant, while Sundar was caught on his own bowling. In the second innings, Archer got well with captain Ben Stokes. Who threw 24 overs and took 3 wickets for just 48 runs. Both Stokes and Archer took 5–5 wickets in the match.
Jofra Archer, who was playing Test after 4 years, sent Yashasvi Jaiswal, Rishabh Pant and Washington Sundar in the second innings to the pavilion.
Reason-5: Lower Order of England; Give more extra runs While Team India’s lower order batters are disappointing in the entire series, England is scoring more with the help of these batter. In the first innings, the team lost their 7 wickets for 271 runs. From here, Bridon Cars took the innings with Jamie Smith and brought the team to 350.
Cars scored 56 and Smith scored 51 runs. Cars played openly shots and the team scored to 387 runs. On the other hand, India could score 11 runs even after losing 6 wickets. In the second innings, both teams had a lower order flop.
India also gave more extra runs, including both innings. The team left 13 leg bye in the first innings and gave 18 extra runs. It increased to 26 in the second innings. That is, 44 extra runs in the match. While England gave 18 runs extra. Leg by counting extra counting, India spent 63, while England spent only 30 extra runs. India lost the match by just 22 runs.
India gave 31 extra runs in the first innings and 32 extra runs in the second innings.
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