6th over: England 22-1 (Crawley 6, Pope 0) The umpire has a word with Shubman Gill, I think Siraj might be called to the Umpire’s office after the close of play. Physical contact is a no-no even if Siraj might protest it was just a glance and was accidental, ump. Ollie Pope arrives in the middle and all eyes are glued to this contest. Don’t go anywhere!
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England v India: third men’s cricket Test, day four – live | England v India 2025Notice: Undefined variable: newid in D:\vertrigo\www\voice\see.php on line 32  Key events WICKET! Ben Duckett c Bumrah b Mohammed Siraj 12 (England 22-1)It’s all kicking off! Duckett scoops Siraj for four over the keeper’s head but the bowler gets his revenge and then some! Duckett goes to pull but the ball but it beats him for pace and he plinks an easy catch to mid-on. Siraj gives the pint sized batter a full serve and there’s even a little shoulder barge for afters! It is Feisty. 5th over: England 18-0 (Crawley 6, Duckett 8) Bumrah is getting some real up and down bounce now from the Nursery End. Duckett clips for two and then scampers a single to cover. Crawley flays at a length ball and gets a meaty edge that flies wide of gully and away for four! He wasn’t in control at all but he did flash hard. Cripes! Bumrah gets another ball to lift and slam into Crawley’s gloves. The Kent opener must have robust hands, remember Nasser’s Poppadom fingers*? *“I’ll be mother!” 4th over: England 11-0 (Crawley 2, Duckett 5) Duckett gets off strike off the first ball of the over once more. Clever lad. Siraj snakes one back into Crawley’s pad and India like the look of it. The umpire says no but they send it upstairs… NOT OUT and review burned – it was missing leg stump. Zak Crawley’s eyes are wider than hubcaps out there at the minute. Jasprit Bumrah from the Nursery End… sizzling atmosphere here at Lord’s. Duckett continues his perky start by clipping for a single to get off strike. Right, Bumrah vs Crawley take two. Here we go! Chance! Ouch! Bumrah gets one to spit off a good length and it slams into Crawley’s left hand, that came out of nowhere! The ball flies up off the glove and Bumrah hares after the looping Dukes for the return catch. He doesn’t quite get there, a finger end on it as it drops to the turf. Great drama. Crawley could not do anything about that, no histrionics needed, that would have hurt. This fourth day pitch is starting to offer up some spice too. 3rd over: England 10-0 (Crawley 2, Duckett 4) 2nd over: England 9-0 (Crawley 2, Duckett 3) Siraj steams in and sends a wild delivery down the leg-side, waaaay out of the reach of a diving Pant and a loud cheer goes around Lord’s as four byes are gifted to England. Duckett drives through mid-off for three runs, didn’t middle it but its a positive start from him. Crawley comes on strike and the Lord’s hum goes up a few notches. Plenty of chatter from India’s fielders. Crawley dots out the rest of the over, here comes Jasprit! The players emerge onto a now sun soaked outfield. Jerusalem is dispatched into the North London environs. Mohammed Siraj is going to start from the Pavilion End. Lot’s of short sentences. To build up anticipation. Let’s play! Cricketing needle strikes me as a good OBO sub plot to the day’s action. My mind goes immediately to Michael Clarke telling Jimmy Anderson to “Get ready for a broken F***en’ arm” in Australia a few Ashes ago. The ‘e’ in the expletive is all important. Patrick Fullick remembers Snowy and Sunny facing off. “The little fracas between Crawley and Gill last night took my mind back to the 1971 Lords Test between England and India, in which John Snow barged Sunil Gavaskar out of the way to get to the ball as Gavaskar was running between the wickets. Gavaskar dropped his bat in the collision, which Snow then picked up and casually threw back to him, smiling at the same time. There’s aggression for you! And yes, I remember it well.” Play will begin in about ten minutes time. No you’re excited. I’m in the press box so have got to keep a lid on it, to an extent. Too much exclaiming and there’s still enough gnarly old boys about who will likely greet such effusing with a withering glance. Anyway, there’s just time enough to get yourself up to speed by reading young whippersnapper Ali Martin’s report of yesterday’s action: Simon Law isn’t afraid of a plug on the sabbath: “Our band put out a song a while back called ‘Sunday Morning, New York City’… I’d like everyone to listen and reimagine it as ‘Sunday Morning, St John’s Wood’. Meanwhile, Barney Ronay delved into the the murky world of ball chat: Andy Bull has been in fine fettle as per forever, I loved his piece on Jofra Archer on day two: and here he is on yesterday and the Gautam Gambhirification of Bazball: Harry Brook was having some throw downs in the Nursery ground nets as I walked past half an hour ago. Most of the England players are now on the outfield playing their game of keepie uppies. India’s players are in a huge team huddle about 80 metres away. It’s a tired old cliche but the first hour of play this morning really is the definition of a big one. Preamble Sunday morning coming down? Hardly. This third Test between England and India is on a knife edge. But more than that. How about a trapeze artist in 7inch heels tottering along a greased up machete above shark infested waters. In a howling gale. Something like that I suppose. England lead by the grand total of two runs on first innings and things got a bit spicy on the third evening last night. Zak Crawley gave a cynical/hilarious/his best Daniel Day Lewis impression to make sure England only had to face one over at the close, it was less My Left Foot and more My Right Glove (there A bit of good old fashioned needle to keep us all on our toes this morning then. England will likely try and force the game along in the first session but with that comes a certain risk. We wouldn’t want it any other way, eh? Play begins at 11am, Jim here at a muggy Lord’s (dare I say it could be bowling conditions…) on the tools until this afternoon when Rob Smyth will take you tenderly by the hand at lwead you through the rest of the day. Do give us a shout if you are tuning in. Thought, theories, predictions and pension advice all welcomed. Let’s get into it. Source link Posted: 2025-07-13 11:35:26 |
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