On Day 3 of the third Test match against England, Team India lost the wicket of vice-captain Rishabh Pant at the stroke of lunch.
India has reached the score of 248 runs for the loss of four wickets in 65.3 overs. The visitors are still trailing by 139 runs with opening batsman KL Rahul still on the crease at 98 runs. His knock came in 171 balls and included three boundaries.
Rahul played some lovely drives and flicks, but the standout shot was his backfoot punch square of the wicket off Brydon Carse, even as Pant brought up his fifty with a hooked six over deep fine leg off Ben Stokes.
Pant was run out by England skipper Ben Stokes on 74 runs. The left-hander`s knock included 112 runs, which were laced with eight boundaries and two maximums.
After his departure, the next man to come in would probably be all-rounder Nitish Kumar Reddy.
Resuming the day at 145 for three, overnight batters Rahul and Pant batted beautifully to keep the scoreboard moving at a good clip while reducing the deficit to 139 runs after bowling out England for 387 in their first innings.
Earlier, Karun Nair garnered 40 runs off 62 balls, with the help of four boundaries. Opening batsman Yashasvi Jaiswal could not manage to score many runs as he returned to the pavilion on a score of 13 runs in eight balls, including three boundaries.
Team India skipper Shubman Gill, who was enjoying a fine run in the ongoing five-match series, failed to replicate his century heroics in the side`s first innings of the third match. Facing 44 balls, the right-hander scored just 16 runs, including two boundaries. Despite a poor outing, Gill surpassed Virat Kohli`s record of most runs by an Indian captain in a Test series in England.
The 25-year-old now has 601 runs to his name and overtook Kohli`s previous record of 593 runs, which the latter scored during the England tour in 2016.
So far, Chris Woakes, Jofra Archer and Ben Stokes have one wicket each to their names. Brydon Carse and Shoaib Bashir are still hunting their way to claim wickets.
(With PTI Inputs)
