In an uncalled-for incident, the English fans were seen throwing bottle corks near KL Rahul during the first session of Day 3 of the second Test match against England at Lord’s. Rahul was standing at the third man boundary at that time and social media witnessed a plethora of images of what appeared to be bottle corks – a lot of them – close to the India opener.
The incident took place in the 69th over of the England innings when Rahul complained about something being thrown from the crowd. The Indan skipper, Virat Kohli, who was standing at the slips at that time, was visibly upset after the incident. Kohli, in fact, signaled Rahul to throw them back to the crowd.
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While the object was not harmful, this is something that is never was expected during a game of cricket from cultured fans. The Indian team chose not to drag the incident and carried on with normal proceedings. Here is the video of the incident:
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England was 216-3 at lunch in reply to India’s first innings 364, still, 148 runs behind. The hosts had resumed on 119-3, a deficit of 245 runs, after opener Rory Burns had fallen for a well-made 49 toward the end on Friday. Not for the first time, the England skipper had come in to bat with his side in trouble, reduced to 23-2 when the Indian fast bowler, Mohammed Siraj removed Dom Sibley and the recalled Haseeb Hameed, out for first-ball naught, with successive deliveries.
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Root, the only England batsman to surpassed the 50-tun mark in last week’s rain-marred drawn first Test at Trent Bridge, with scores of 64 and 109, went to another half-century with a stylish square-driven four off Siraj. It was his seventh boundary in 82 balls faced.
Conditions were more in favor of the batsmen than on the first couple of days but England, even though they had Moeen Ali and Jos Buttler to come, still had work to do to get back on level terms.
