Brilliant Bowling by India: England Struggling

Edgbaston, Aug 03: Indian bowlers made come back in the second innings taking five wickets in the morning session as England managed to stretch their second innings lead to 99 runs, reaching 86/6 at lunch on the third day of the opening Test at the Edgbaston Cricket Ground here on Friday.

Coming to details, Pacer Ishant Sharma produced a brilliant spell that saw him take three quick wickets after off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin dented the hosts with two wickets within the first hours of play.

Ishant removed Jonny Bairstow (28) and Ben Stokes (6) just at the stroke of lunch even as England lost the key wickets of opener Keaton Jennings (8), skipper Joe Root (14) and Dawid Malan (20) in regular intervals.

Ashwin once again turned out to be the tormentor of the England line-up, as he continued from where he left on Thursday.

Ashwin, who dismissed former skipper Alastair Cook for a duck on the second evening to leave the hosts reeling at 9/1, started off the proceedings on Friday and immediately succeeded in packing back an in-form Jennings, caught beautifully by lokesh Rahul at second slip.

Right Now england were 103/7 after 36 overs and lead by 116 runs, Ishant took 4 wickets and Ravi Ashwin took 3 wikets.