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India vs England 2nd Test Day 3: Hosts struggle to 89-4 at lunch at Lord's

India were bowled out for 107 runs in their first innings.

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India's Hardik Pandya celebrates after taking the wicket of England’s Ollie Pope.
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England lost four wickets, including debutant Ollie Pope for 28, as they struggled to 89 for four at lunch on the third day of the second test at Lord's on Saturday, 18 runs behind India.

After an imperious bowling display from James Anderson on the second day, England started brightly in response to India's first-innings 107 with Alastair Cook looking fluent as the hosts progressed to 28 without loss.

But in the eighth over, Keaton Jennings missed a straight delivery by Mohammed Shami and was trapped lbw for 11.

In the following over, Cook (21) was caught behind after he nicked a swinging delivery from Ishant Sharma which brought 20-year-old Pope to the crease.

The right-hander played some positive strokes and scored freely as he looked to rebuild alongside captain Joe Root, but as lunch approached he was trapped lbw by Hardik Pandya.

Root was watchful for much of his innings until his dismissal by Shami lbw for 19 from 53 balls signalled the break.

Jonny Bairstow was unbeaten on four at the interval in bright sunshine at the home of cricket after much of the first two days of the match were washed out by rain.

England lead the five-match series 1-0. 

On Friday, India were bowled out for 107 in 35.2 overs on the second day. 

James Anderson picked up a stunning five-for, while the likes of Chris Woakes and Sam Curran played a great second fiddle to him.

It was Woakes who removed the key man, Virat Kohli and followed that up with the wicket of Hardik Pandya. India at one point lost three wickets for just 12 runs – Kohli, Pandya and Dinesh Karthik, who became a victim of a jaffa from Curran.

India lost both their openers KL Rahul and Murali Vijay to Anderson. Just after a few overs, the rain returned and the play was halted again.

India were struggling on 15 for three when heavy rain disrupted play for the third time on Friday after the entire first day of the test was lost to the wet weather.

When play began again, Cheteshwar Pujara was run out by debutant Ollie Pope and a downpour followed immediately with skipper Virat Kohli the unbeaten batsman on three.

England captain Joe Root had won the delayed toss and put India in to bat.

Both teams made changes from the first test, won by England, with India making two changes from Edgbaston and opting for a twin spin bowling attack.

Left-arm spinner Kuldeep Yadav was brought in for seamer Umesh Yadav, joining off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin in the slow bowling department.

Batsman Pujara was brought in for Shikhar Dhawan.

As expected England gave a test debut to 20-year-old Surrey batsman Pope, who has only 15 first-class matches under his belt but takes the place of the dropped Dawid Malan.

Paceman Chris Woakes came in for Ben Stokes, who is the subject of a criminal trial in Bristol this week, meaning Moeen Ali missed out again.

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