England were wooed on the fourth day of the third Test against India at Lord’s due to a stunning late burst from Bridan Cars.
Bowling with the highest rhythm from the end of the pavilion, Cars first pinned both Karun Nair and India captain Shubman Gill.
With the final ball of the day, Ben Stokes left nightwatchman Akash as a target of 193 to the nightwatchman Akash to the deepest deeper deepest India.
It was a dramatic end of a wonderful Sunday, played on a surface that suddenly became toxic. India’s bowlers were fantastic for rejecting England for 192.
Jasprit Bumrah somehow claimed only two wickets, the main damage done by off-spinner Washington Sundar 4-22. England lost their last six wickets for 38 runs.
In the morning, a chaotic morning, Harry Brook was trying to deepen the seamar sky for 23. Joe Root dropped anchor for 40, Stokes also preserved even more for 33.
Captain was bowled by both the past and the present by Sundar, a total of 12 domestic batsmen who have lost their furniture – an England record for a test in this country.
Jofra Archer bounced Yashsvi Jaiswal for zero, but Chris Woakes did not hold a return to KL Rahul when he had only five.
Before the talismanic stokes said the last saying England were getting out of the game until the intervention of the cars. This will be a brilliant conclusion on Monday morning.
Off-spinner Shoaib Bashir, who damaged his finger on three days, is available for England to bowl if necessary, although the final two are to be forbidden to be out of the tests.
