During England’s first innings in Rajkot Test, India took a DRS towards Ollie Pope when Mohammed Siraj, deployed on short-ball ways, pitched a fuller one to hit the pad of the English batter. Umpire Joel Wilson was unmoved however he needed to overturn his attraction with the replays confirming that the ball was hitting the leg stump. Pope’s entertaining knock thus ended at 39 off 55 balls. Commenting on the dismissal England tempo nice Stuart Broad wrote on X: “Looks high to me for 3 reds!”

“You used to nick it to slip and not think you were out mate,” replied his former teammate Graeme Swann on the remark.

You used to nick it to slide and never suppose you had been out mate

— Graeme Swann (@Swannyg66) February 16, 2024

India beat England by a whopping 434 runs within the third Test to take a 2-1 lead within the five-match sequence in Rajkot on Sunday.

This was India’s greatest Test win when it comes to runs, surpassing the 372-run victory over New Zealand in 2021.

Set an unbelievable victory goal of 557, England collapsed to 122 all out in 39.4 overs on day 4.

Ravindra Jadeja was the choose of the bowlers for India, taking 5 wickets for 41 runs in 12.4 overs.

It was simply England’s worst batting effort of the sequence with no batter capable of cross the 20-run mark barring quantity 10 Mark Wood (33).

On the identical pitch, India amassed 445 and 430 for 4 declared of their two innings respectively.

The huge win was arrange by Yashasvi Jaiswal who remained unbeaten on 214 in India’s second innings. The different centurions of the sport had been Rohit Sharma and Ravindra Jadeja.

Sarfaraz Khan scored back-to-back fifties on his debut.

The fourth Test shall be performed in Ranchi from February 23.