IND vs ENG, 3rd Test: Twitter Reacts As India Thrash England by Eight Wickets 1

A brilliant half-century from Parthiv Patel helped India defeat England by eight ar Mohali wickets to take a 2-0 lead in five-match series.

Chasing 103 runs, India started poorly as Murali Vijay returned to pavilion even without bothering the scorers. Parthiv Patel and Cheteshwar Pujara (25) then added 81 runs to set the platform for the victory. Parthiv was particularly impressive as he played an array of aggressive shots to help the hosts chase down the total comfortably. Playing his first game for India after eight years, the southpaw completed his half-century off only 39 balls and remained unbeaten on 67.

Earlier, resuming at their overnight score of 78/4, England lost night watchman Gareth Batty in the very first over of the day. Joe Root and Jos Buttler tried to score some quick runs but their partnership got ended when Buttler miscued Jayant Yadav to deep mid-wicket. Root and Haseeb Hameed then helped the visitors erase the 134-run deficit but any hopes of posting a good total looked bleak when Root was dismissed for 78 with the overall lead of only 18 runs. But Hameed (59*) played a gutsy innings to give his bowlers something to defend. He added 43 runs for the eighth wicket with Chris Woakes and 41 runs for the last wicket with James Anderson.

Here is how Twitter reacted to the day’s play:

https://twitter.com/toon4life85/status/803534990634078208

https://twitter.com/FakeRainaNephew/status/803518369412612096?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

https://twitter.com/AllTimeBakchod/status/803502470949285888?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw