IND vs ENG 1st Test Day 3 Highlights: Pope's century keeps England alive

India vs England Live Score Updates: Ollie Pope's fantastic century helped England not only get past the Indian lead of 190 runs, but take a lead of 126 at the end of Day 3 in Hyderabad

Ollie Pope and Ben Foakes after Pope hits century during India vs England 1st Test at Hyderabad. Catch the Live Score Updates here. Photo: Sportzpics

Ollie Pope and Ben Foakes after Pope hits century during India vs England 1st Test at Hyderabad. Catch the IND vs ENG 1st Test Day 3 Highlights here. Photo: Sportzpics

At the end of Day 3 of India vs England 1st Test, England built a 126-run lead as Ollie Pope hit a century and was unbeaten alongside Rehan Ahmed at the Rajiv Gandhi Stadium in Hyderabad on Saturday, January 27.

Starting the third session, Pope and Ben Foakes went on to trouble India big time as the dup added 112 for the sixth wicket. Pope brought up a hundred in 154 balls and became the first player in this Test to reach the three-figure mark. However, Foakes was outfoxed by a brilliant ball from Axar Patel. Patel had earlier dropped Pope right after his hundred.

Rehan Ahmed joined Pope as less than 10 overs remained to the close of play. England took the lead past 100 and then Rehan and Pope added an unbeaten 41 off 62 balls for the seventh wicket to see England to the close of play at 316/6, leading by 126 runs with four wickets in hand and two days of play remaining. In the last session, the English scored 134 runs at the loss of just one wicket in 36 overs.

India vs England 1st Test Day 3: 1st Session

In the first session, India came out to bat at their overnight score of 421/7 with Axar Patel and Ravindra Jadeja in the middle.

They could add only 15 runs to the total as Joe Root took two wickets (Jadeja and Jasprit Bumrah) on consecutive deliveries before Rehan Ahmed had Axar bowled to get India all-out for 436, with a first-innings lead of 190 runs.

England came out to bat with a positive approach, scoring 20 runs in the first six overs playing all kinds of sweeps and reverse sweeps. Ben Duckett and Zak Crawley managed to put on 45 for the first wicket before Crawley was caught playing the only defensive shot he did in the morning.

Duckett took over the mantle as he added an unbeaten 44 with Pope to take England to Lunch at 89/1. They trail by just 101 runs. 26 overs and 104 runs and four wickets in the morning session.

India vs England 1st Test Day 3: 2nd Session

Duckett and Pope started on the offensive in the post-lunch session again. However, Jasprit Bumrah was at his lethal best as he managed to get Duckett LBW. The Gujarat-born then had his recent bunny Joe Root leg before wicket with luck going his way as it was the umpire’s call on hitting the wickets when Root reviewed the on-field umpire’s call.

Pope managed to get to his fifty while Bairstow faced yet another beauty to get bowled for four. Stokes joined Pope in the middle with the mentality of ‘block it out’, but was deceived by a beauty from Ashwin as England lost their fifth wicket. Foakes and Pope took England to Tea at 172/5, trailing by 18 runs. 83 runs in 23 overs and four wickets in this session which belonged to India.

England 1st innings scorecard

England 1st Inning 246-10 (64.3 ov) CRR:3.81
Batter	Dismissals	R	B	4s	6s	SR
Zak Crawley	c M Siraj b R Ashwin	20	40	3	0	50
Ben Duckett	lbw b R Ashwin	35	39	7	0	89.74
Ollie Pope	c R Sharma b R Jadeja	1	11	0	0	9.09
Joe Root	c J Bumrah b R Jadeja	29	60	1	0	48.33
Jonny Bairstow	b AR Patel	37	58	5	0	63.79
Ben Stokes (C)	b J Bumrah	70	88	6	3	79.55
Ben Foakes (WK)	c KS Bharat b AR Patel	4	24	0	0	16.67
Rehan Ahmed	c KS Bharat b J Bumrah	13	18	1	0	72.22
Tom Hartley	b R Jadeja	23	24	2	1	95.83
Mark Wood	b R Ashwin	11	24	2	0	45.83
Jack Leach	Not out	0	3	0	0	0
Extras	3 (b 0, Ib 1, w 0, nb 2, p 0)
Total	246 (10 wkts, 64.3 Ov)
Bowler	O	M	R	W	NB	ECO
Jasprit Bumrah	8.3	1	28	2	0	3.29
Mohammed Siraj	4	0	28	0	1	7
Ravindra Jadeja	18	4	88	3	1	4.89
Ravichandran Ashwin	21	1	68	3	0	3.24
Axar Patel	13	1	33	2	0	2.54

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5:01 PM

India vs England Live Score: That’s how it finished on Day 3

4:48 PM

Ind vs Eng 1st Test Day 3: What happened in the last session?

Starting the third session, Olli Pope and Ben Foakes went on to trouble India big time as the dup added 112 for the sixth wicket. Pope brought up a hundred in 154 balls and became the first player in this Test to reach the three-figure mark. However, Foakes was outfoxed by a brilliant ball from Axar Patel. Patel had earlier dropped Pope right after his hundred.

4:45 PM

India vs England Live Score: Stumps at Hyderabad

Over Summary: 0 4 0 0 0 1; England 316-6 after 77 overs

Ollie Pope (148), Rehan Ahmed (16); Ravichandran Ashwin 21-3-93-2

Rehan Ahmed takes five from the over as he hits a four and then takes a single off the last ball to make sure that he would remain on strike tomorrow morning.

4:43 PM

India vs England Live Score: Six from the over

Over Summary: 0 1 N1 1 0 0 2; England 311-6 after 76 overs

Ollie Pope (148), Rehan Ahmed (11); Ravindra Jadeja 26-1-101-1

With just two overs to go today, Rehan Ahmed faces Jadeja and takes a single. And Jadeja bowls yet another no-ball, sixth in this innings and seventh in the match. This is the highest number of no-balls by an Indian bowler since Shahbaz Nadeem in 2021 against England at home.

4:38 PM

India vs England Live Score: The odd ball keeping low

Over Summary: 0 0 0 0 1 0; England 305-6 after 75 overs

Ollie Pope (145), Rehan Ahmed (9); Jasprit Bumrah 12-3-29-2

Brilliant fielding from Gill at short mid-wicket as he stops a certain four and Rehan Ahmed still has no runs to show for against Bumrah in this innings. But not for long as a misfiled by Siraj at point would give him a single.

4:34 PM

India vs England Live Score: Pope-Rehan going well

Over Summary: 1 1 0 1 1 0; England 304-6 after 74 overs

Ollie Pope (145), Rehan Ahmed (8); Ravindra Jadeja 25-1-95-1

Rehan and Pope are showing great determination to play till the remaining three overs are bowled. The two have added 29 off 43 balls already.

4:32 PM

India vs England Live Score Updates: 300 up for England

Over Summary: 4 0 1 0 0 0; England 300-6 after 73 overs

Ollie Pope (143), Rehan Ahmed (6); Jasprit Bumrah 11-3-28-2

Bumrah, even after getting cramped up, bowled the entire over and went for just five runs as England brought up 300.

4:26 PM

India vs England Live Score Updates: Physio in the field

Bumrah comes into the attack and Pope gets a loosener first up and puts it away for a four to the deep square leg. England reach 299. The physio is out here, looking at Jaspreit Bumrah to make sure that he does not have cramps.

4:24 PM

India vs England Live Updates: Ahmed trying to be cheeky

Over Summary: 0 1 1 1 0 0; England 295-6 after 72 overs

Ollie Pope (138), Rehan Ahmed (6); Ravindra Jadeja 24-1-91-1

Rehan plays an inside-out shot and gets beaten thrice but he still remains not out.

4:22 PM

India vs England Live Updates: English lead past 100

Over Summary: 0 0 0 2 1 0; England 292-6 after 71 overs

Ollie Pope (136), Rehan Ahmed (5); Axar Patel 15-2-69-1

The English lead has gone past the 100-run mark and with four wickets in hand, they could make a match out of it by taking the game into the fourth day.

4:16 PM

India vs England Live Updates: Dilscoops from Ollie Pope

Over Summary: 0 0 4 0 0 1; England 289-6 after 70 overs

Ollie Pope (133), Rehan Ahmed (5); Ravindra Jadeja 23-1-88-1

Ollie Pope is playing 360 degrees here as he is hitting the sweeps like Dilscoops which are going exactly over the keeper’s head.

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4:14 PM

Ind vs Eng Live Updates: Three from the over

Over Summary: 0 0 1 1 1 0; England 284-6 after 69 overs

Ollie Pope (128), Rehan Ahmed (5); Axar Patel 14-2-66-1

Three runs from the over as Pope tries to remain calm and bat till the end of the day.

4:13 PM

Ind vs Eng Live Updates: Rehan gets a four

Over Summary: 1 N 0 0 4 0 0; England 281-6 after 68 overs

Ollie Pope (126), Rehan Ahmed (4); Ravindra Jadeja 22-1-83-1

Rehan Ahmed gets off the mark with a four and it seems there is still some fight left in the English unit as they look to take the lead past 100.

4:11 PM

Ind vs Eng Live Score Updates: Axar breaks the partnership, Foakes gone

Over Summary: 0 4 0 1 0 W; England 275-6 after 67 overs

Ollie Pope (120), Ben Foakes (34); Axar Patel 13-2-63-1

Axar Patel would have the biggest sigh of relief as he gets through the defences of Foakes and breaks the 112-run stand for the sixth wicket between Pope and Foakes.

4:08 PM