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Tuesday 21 August 2018 10:14, UK
India's dominance in the third Test was highlighted by a 23rd career Test century for Virat Kohli, while Cheteshwar Pujara recorded his first fifty of the series. And, England's woes were worsened when Jonny Bairstow suffered a fractured finger. Here's all you need to know from day three...
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Virat Kohli scored his second century of the series as India dominated for the second day running at Trent Bridge, declaring on 352-7 to set England a world record 521 to win, writes Sam Drury.
The England bowlers toiled throughout the day as Kohli assumed complete control for much of his innings and their frustrations were added to by a pair of dropped catches, including a let-off for Kohli on 93.
Where he failed, in relative terms, in the first innings Kohli would not be denied in the second innings. With a touch of luck near the end, as Keaton Jennings totally missed a ball he should have snaffled, the Indian captain brought up yet another Test century. Having admitted that he could not enjoy his hundred at Edgbaston as much as he may have wanted after the visitors lost, the 29-year-old will be hoping there is a happy ending to this Test match.
Kohli attacked just 14% of his deliveries - only once has he scored a Test century whilst playing fewer attacking shots.
Kohli now averages over 35 in every Test nation where he's played more than one match.
Cook (70%) and Stokes (74%) have the worst record of any slip fielders in the world since the start of 2015.
What are England's slip catchers doing wrong? Anderson was the unfortunate recipient of seeing two chances going down with Jos Buttler shelling a fairly simple one off Pujara in the first half an hour of play.
Jennings seemed to get up too soon as Kohli offered a perfect opportunity on 93 only for the Lancashire batsman to allow the ball go through him and away to the boundary. England's all-time leading wicket-taker was aghast with dismay and understandably so.
The cordon have put down 14 of the 19 dropped catches between the two sides in this series and they are going to need to do something drastic, quickly, to improve on that.
MICHAEL HOLDING: "Virat Kohli is a fantastic player. There was so much doubt about whether he would get runs on this tour, coming back to England. Scoring these centuries, no one can doubt he is a great player anymore. I was asked before if he was great, but I said until he gets runs in England he is only a very good player. But he has done that now, so he is a great."
Assistant coach PAUL FARBRACE: "It was really important to get through that tricky final session, not lose one or two wickets. We had a terrible day yesterday, but our bowlers showed today that they didn't chuck the towel in. They stuck at their task really well. We are quite pleased that although we are a long way back in this game, we showed some real quality and real effort today."
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