IND vs ENG : The third match of the current A series between India and England is being played in Rajkot. In this match, captain Rohit Sharma has won the toss and decided to bat first.
On the first day of this third match, captain Rohit Sharma scored a brilliant century in 157 balls. He played a brilliant innings and lost his wicket after scoring 131 runs in 196 balls.
Ravindra Jadeja created a storm
Indian team’s deadly all-rounder Ravindra Jadeja completed his century in 198 balls. Moving forward, Ravindra Jadeja played a brilliant innings by scoring 110 runs in 212 balls. Ravindra Jadeja hit seven fours and two sixes in his innings.
Jadeja did not celebrate after completing his first century, because debutant Sarfaraz Khan was run out due to his mistake one ball earlier. Sarfaraz Khan performed brilliantly in his debut match and was out after scoring 62 runs in 66 balls.
Ravindra Jadeja’s second century on home ground
Batting first, the Indian team lost three wickets for just 33 runs. After this, captain Rohit Sharma and Ravindra Jadeja played brilliant innings and took the score forward. Both the brave players together made a partnership of 204 runs in 329 balls.
Let us tell you that Rajkot is Jadeja’s home ground. A test match was played against West Indies on this ground in October 2018. Then in the same innings Jadeja played an unbeaten inning of 100 runs.
After 6 years, Jadeja again scored a brilliant century on the same ground. In this way, this was Jadeja’s second consecutive century in Rajkot.
Jadeja joins the club of Kapil Dev and Ashwin
This is the fourth century of Jadeja’s Test career. With this century, he has also completed 3000 runs in his Test career.
Jadeja has become the third Indian after Kapil Dev and R Ashwin to score 3000 runs and 250 Test wickets. Jadeja kept batting till the end of the day and returned unbeaten. Team India scored 326 runs for five wickets on the first day.
Playing XI for the third test match of Ind vs Eng
England’s playing XI:
Zak Crawley, Ben Duckett, Ollie Pope, Joe Root, Jonny Bairstow, Ben Stokes (c), Ben Fox, Rehan Ahmed, Tom Hartley, Mark Wood, James Anderson
India’s playing XI:
Rohit Sharma (captain), Yashasvi Jaiswal, Shubman Gill, Rajat Patidar, Sarfaraz Khan, Ravindra Jadeja, Dhruv Jurel (wicketkeeper), R Ashwin, Kuldeep Yadav, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammed Siraj.
