Team India has tightened the noose on hosts England in the Edgbaston Test. At the end of the third day’s play, the team had scored 125 runs for 5 wickets in the second innings. Cheteshwar Pujara is playing after scoring 50 runs. Rishabh Pant, the first-innings centurion, is supporting him. The total lead of the team has gone up to 257 runs. No team has ever been able to score 300 runs while chasing the target on this ground. In this respect, India has the upper hand. In the match, India scored 416 runs in the first innings. Apart from Pant, Ravindra Jadeja also played a century. In reply, England scored 284 runs on the basis of Jonny Bairstow’s century. Mohammad Siraj took 4 wickets. Team India made many records in this match. This is the best performance in the team’s 90-year Test history. Let’s take a look at this on For the first time in the history.
- Rishabh Pant scored 146 and Ravindra Jadeja scored 104 runs in the first innings. Earlier, Indian players had never scored 2 centuries in a match on this ground. As players, Virat Kohli and Sachin had scored centuries before this match For the first time in the history.
- Pant and Jadeja shared a 222-run partnership for the sixth wicket. This is the highest partnership for the sixth wicket for India in England. Earlier, Pant and Rahul had shared the best partnership of 204 runs at the Oval in 2018.
- Jasprit Bumrah, captaining the match, scored 29 runs with the bat in one over of Stuart Broad. He hit 4 fours and 2 sixes. This is the world record for most runs in an over. Earlier Brian Lara had scored 28 runs with the bat.
- Bumrah played an unbeaten 31 in the first innings at Edgbaston, batting at number 10. This is the highest score by any Indian batsman at number-10 on this ground.
- Indian fast bowlers took all 10 wickets of England’s first innings. Indian fast bowlers have so far taken 71 wickets in the current 5 match series. This has been his best performance in a bilateral series. Earlier, fast bowlers had never got more than 61 wickets.
