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Sundar was India’s top performer with the ball on Day 4 of the Lord’s Test. He bowled 12.1 overs and picked up four wickets for 22 runs.
Washington Sundar makes bold prediction for third India-England Test. (Picture Credit: AFP)
The third Test of the ongoing five-match series between India and England is evenly poised after four days of play. After bowling England out for 192 in the second innings, India finished Day 4’s play at 58/4 in 17.4 overs. The visitors need 135 more runs on the final day to win the game at the Home of Cricket and go 2-1 up in the series, whereas the hosts are just six wickets away from a memorable win.
There will be too much to fight for on the final day of the match, but according to India’s star all-rounder Washington Sundar, India will definitely win the match tomorrow (Monday).
While speaking to Nasser Hussain and Kumar Sangakkara on Sky Sports, Sundar said, “Definitely India winning tomorrow, probably in the first session.”
When asked to give the time by which the match will be done and dusted, Sundar added, “Probably just after lunch.”
“The position that we are in right now… probably for 1 (wicket loss) at the stumps would have been ideal, but yes, the way we bowled, all the fast bowlers in particular, the way they came out today and kept the pressure going throughout the day was amazing.”
Sundar was India’s top performer with the ball in the second innings. The Tamil Nadu-based cricketer bowled 12.1 overs on Sunday and picked up four wickets for 22 runs. He opened his wicket account by dismissing Joe Root in the post-lunch session and then clean bowled Jamie Smith as well.
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While Root scored 40 runs from 96 balls, Smith could only manage to score 8 runs. In the third session, Sundar breached Ben Stokes’s defence and shattered his stumps for 33 runs and then wrapped up England’s innings by removing Shoaib Bashir for 2 runs.
For India, apart from him, pacers Mohammed Siraj and Jasprit Bumrah also picked up two wickets each, and one English batter each was sent back to the pavilion by Akash Deep and Nitish Kumar Reddy.
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