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During the second session on day four of the third Test in the five-match series, England captain Ben Stokes suffered a body blow on the bowling of Mohammed Siraj at Lord’s in London. With the five-match Test series level at 1-1, and the third Test match nicely poised, Mohammed Siraj bowled a shorter length delivery, which Ben Stokes looked to pull towards the deep square leg region, but he missed it completely due to the lack of bounce.
Within a split second, the ball thudded into the area where no batter in men’s cricket would want to get hit, and it instantly made Ben Stokes scream in agony with some expletives with a lot of people seeing the funny side of it except Stuart Broad in commentary. Moments later, Stokes was down on the floor with his legs turned towards the stump camera, and the picture has now gone viral on various social media platforms, with the fans having a field day with it.
Watch the video here:
As far as the match situation is concerned, as of this writing, England have reached 147/4 in 39 overs in their second innings against India during the second session on day four after both the teams cancelled each other out on the first innings by scoring 387 runs to be exact. Ben Stokes is at the crease with his fellow senior partner Joe Root, looking to put England in the position of strength.
Below are the playing XIs of England and India for the third Test at Lord’s in London:
England: Zak Crawley, Ben Duckett, Ollie Pope, Joe Root, Harry Brook, Ben Stokes (c), Jamie Smith (wk), Chris Woakes, Brydon Carse, Jofra Archer, Shoaib Bashir
India: Yashasvi Jaiswal, KL Rahul, Karun Nair, Shubman Gill (c), Rishabh Pant (wk), Ravindra Jadeja, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Washington Sundar, Akash Deep, Mohammed Siraj, Jasprit Bumrah
