LEEDS, England (AP) — England was all out for 465 and trailed India by only six runs on the first innings at tea on day three Sunday of the test series opener at Headingley. India pacer Jasprit Bumrah, who should have had a five-for on Friday, finally got it by taking the last two wickets.
He is the first Asian bowler to take 150 wickets in South Africa, England, New Zealand and Australia (SENA) countries. This is Bumrah’s 10th five-wicket haul in SENA nations. If the Indian speedster takes two more five-wicket hauls, he will go past Wasim Akram (11 fifers in SENA).
Overall, Bumrah has taken 12 five-wicket hauls in away Test matches, equalling the record of the legendary all-rounder Kapil Dev. Bumrah reached the mark in 34 Tests while Kapil took 66 red-ball matches.
Meanwhile, Jamie Smith made 40 and Harry Brook rode his luck from 0 overnight to 99, when he fell an hour after lunch by hitting Prasidh Krishna straight to Shardul Thakur at deep backward square leg.
England was 398-7 at that point, trailing by 73 runs, and India would have expected to wrap up the tail with the new ball only five overs old.
But fast bowling allrounder Chris Woakes and No. 9 batter Brydon Carse smashed India for 55 runs off 44 balls. They feasted on pacers Mohammed Siraj, Krishna and Thakur.
Carse was finally bowled by Siraj on 22 off 23 balls in his first home test.
Woakes was bowled by Bumrah on 38, his best test score in nearly a year. Bumrah also got No. 10 Josh Tongue on 11 to finish the innings and achieve his 14th test five-for.
England scored 118 runs in the morning and 138 in the afternoon session. It scored nearly five runs an over on Sunday.
That must worry India knowing England will relish a fourth-innings run chase.
As unlucky as Brook was to get out on 99, he was lucky to have scored one run. Before he got off the mark, he was caught in Friday’s last over but Bumrah overstepped. Then he was dropped on 46 and 82.
India fluffed four catches overall, two by Yashasvi Jaiswal in the slips, both off Bumrah.