IND vs ENG Live Updates third Test match at Saurashtra Cricket Association Stadium in Rajkot: Skipper Rohit Sharma and Ravindra Jadeja dropped anchor on a benign observe to guide a sturdy restoration for India, steering the hosts to 185/3 at tea on the primary day of the third Test in opposition to England on Thursday.

With Rohit (97 batting) citing his seventeenth Test fifty, first of the sequence, in a shared first session between the 2 opponents, Jadeja (68 batting) adopted his captain’s feat within the second session along with his twenty first half-century.

Rohit and Jadeja cashed in on a batting-friendly floor right here on the Niranjan Shah Stadium, which had supplied early troubles to India’s kids within the first session.

India have been left reeling at 33 for 3 within the first hour’s play having misplaced Yashasvi Jaiswal (10), Shubman Gill (0) and Rajat Patidar (5), however Rohit and Jadeja rebuilt the innings.

Rohit and Jadeja opted to grind it out within the morning session and impose themselves within the afternoon with out taking any undue dangers to placed on 152 runs for the fourth wicket thus far.

Rohit was one hit away from his eleventh ton within the format and definitely a well timed one given the circumstances. He has confronted 154 balls with 11 fours and two sixes.

On the opposite hand, Jadeja went about his enterprise with consummate ease to succeed in a resolute 68 not out from 126 balls with six boundaries and one six.

The dashing all-rounder discovered the gaps on a packed leg-side subject and his immaculate working between the wickets was the stand-out facet of his knock.

Jadeja had fielders standing near his bat and even on the leg facet, however the native favorite displayed wonderful use of his wrists to work the ball round for singles and doubles.

As the pitch flattened out beneath the solar to offer nothing by way of help for the English bowlers, the guests have been pressured to work with their subject settings and take a look at totally different angles with their bowling. But nothing appears to have labored out.

For multiple spell, specific pacer Mark Wood, who rocked India twice early, barraged Rohit with a deep nice leg and deep sq. leg in place.

Rohit didn’t discover any hassle coping with the problem and didn’t thoughts slowing down a bit of within the second session to make sure he returns for the ultimate session to maintain consolidating for India.