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Thanks to the efforts of Indian bowlers. The hosts now have a lead of 126 runs in the second in their second innings of the IND vs ENG 3rd Test. They made 445 runs in their first essay with Rohit Sharma and Ravindra Jadeja smashing centuries.

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At the stroke of the third day of the IND vs ENG 3rd Test, England were 290 for the loss of five wickets. Siraj took the wickets of Ben Foakes, Rehand Ahmed and James Anderson. On the other hand, Jadeja picked the wickets of English skipper Ben Stokes and Tom Hartley. Stokes's inning ended with a score of 41 runs.

Opener Ben Duckett, who overnight 133, made 153 off 151 deliveries before being dismissed by left-arm wrist spinner Kuldeep Yadav, who grabbed two wickets before lunch.

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England, resuming the third day on their overnight score of 207/2, lost Joe Root (18), who could add just nine runs to his overnight score of nine before being dismissed by Jasprit Bumrah.

The next man in, Jonny Bairstow, departed without opening his account with Kuldeep trapping him in front of the wicket. Then, Kuldeep took the prize wicket of Duckett to reduce the visitors to 260/5.

Brief scores:

India 1st innings: 445 all out in 130.5 overs.
England 1st innings: 319 in 71.1 overs (Ben Duckett 153, Ollie Pope 39, Ben Stokes 41; Md Siraj 4/84, Kuldeep Yadav 2/77, Ravindra Jadeja 2/51)

(With PTI Inputs)