• Buttler makes 106 but hosts heading for Trent Bridge defeat
The margin of defeat will surely be massive but we do not yet know the exact numbers. A bizarre day’s cricket finished with England on 311 for nine, 210 short of victory. At one point when Jos Buttler and Ben Stokes were in harness it seemed likely that there would be some meaningful cricket left on the final day. Then, as England lost four wickets for 10 runs, the motorway beckoned. Yet somehow Adil Rashid, alongside Stuart Broad and then Jimmy Anderson, survived for an hour so that Trent Bridge must open its doors again on Wednesday.
However, we know the Indian victory will be emphatic – the forecast is fine – and the teams will reunite at Southampton next week with the series alive at 2-1 and the England team thoroughly chastened at a ground where they usually prevail. This has been a retrograde performance by England and an inspired one by India, who have outplayed England in all three facets of the game: their bowlers were quicker and more hostile, the batsmen more adhesive and the same applied to the hands of their slip catchers despite a few blemishes.
Written by Vic Marks at Trent Bridge
This news first appeared on https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2018/aug/21/england-india-third-test-day-four-match-report under the title “England set for defeat against India despite Buttler’s brilliant rearguard century”. Bolchha Nepal is not responsible or affiliated towards the opinion expressed in this news article.
