Pope, Root keep India's pacers at bay

Sat, 21 June 2025

22:36

England 141-2 (35 ovs) vs India 471 | Scorecard

Bumrah to bowl the fifth over of his third spell. Pope taps the third ball into the leg side for one before Bumrah oversteps to concede a no-ball.

The incoming delivery from Bumrah as Root gets the inside edge for a couple of runs on the leg side.

Siraj continues as Pope pushes the first ball on the off-side for a single. The pacer strikes with the big wicket of Root, who is given out leg before wicket.

Root immediately takes the review but that looks dead in front. The full incoming delivery swung in sharply into Root, who missed the flick and was struck in front.

A good review by Root as the ball is doing quite a bit and going down to miss the leg stump. The crowd go up in cheers as England's best batter gets a lifeline courtesy of the review.

Prasidh back into the attack in place of Bumrah. Pope flicks the full delivery through midwicket for two runs but misses the shot a few balls later to collect a leg bye.

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