At the end of the third day of the Nottingham Test match, England’s lead had reached 207 runs.
ENG vs WI Nottingham Test Match Day 3: The second match of the 3 match test series being played between England and West Indies has reached a very exciting turn after the third day’s play. On the second day, while the West Indies team made a great comeback in the Nottingham test match, at the end of the third day’s play, host England had scored 248 runs at the loss of three wickets in their second innings and had a lead of 207 runs. Earlier, the first innings of the West Indies team in this match ended at a score of 457 runs, in which they had definitely gained a lead of 41 runs on the basis of the first innings.
Joshua de Silva’s innings gave West Indies the lead
As soon as the third day of the Nottingham Test match started, the West Indies team lost 9 wickets for a score of 386 runs. After this, wicketkeeper batsman Joshua de Silva, who was batting at one end, got the support of Shamar Joseph and both of them started scoring runs rapidly, in which a partnership of 71 runs was seen between the two for the 10th wicket. While Joshua played an unbeaten innings of 82 runs in 122 balls, Shamar Joseph scored 33 runs in just 27 balls, due to which the West Indies team was successful in taking its first innings score to 457 runs in this match. In this innings for England, while Chris Woakes took 4 wickets, Gus Atkinson and Shoaib Bashir also managed to take 2-2 wickets each.
All eyes are now on Joe Root and Harry Brook
The second innings of the host team also did not have a good start in this match in which they lost their first wicket at a score of 8. After this, the pair of Ben Duket and Ollie Pope brought the team back in the match by sharing 119 runs for the second wicket, but Duket returned to the pavilion after scoring 76 runs while Ollie Pope scored 51 runs. England had lost their 3 wickets till the score of 140. From here, the pair of Joe Root and Harry Brook took over the innings and did not let the team suffer any further setback till the end of the day’s play. While Brook was unbeaten after scoring 71 runs in 78 balls, Root was playing after scoring 37 runs in 67 balls.
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