India v England Forth Day : Not finished yet. Cheteshwar Pujara, Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli give India hope

India v England forth Day: Not finished yet. Cheteshwar Pujara, Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli give India hope

Heteshwar Pujara's first Test century in more than two years was in the offing as he was determined to keep England at bay at Headingley on Friday with Indian captain Virat Kohli.

India were 215-2 in the second innings due to poor lighting on the third day of the third Test, still trailing England by 432 to 139 in the first innings.

However, Pujara was unbeaten on 91 and Kohli on 45.

This was the highest score of the series for both the batsmen, 99 runs with their unbroken stand.

He was far from India's first innings 78 after Kohli's first batting decision.

Although Pujara has scored 18 centuries in the previous 88 Tests, he has not been able to reach three figures since scoring a superb 193 against Australia in Sydney in January 2019.

Earlier, Rohit Sharma scored 59 in the second opener of the series after India scored 83 after India's 151-run victory in the second Test at Lord's, giving them a 1-0 lead in the five-match series.

England resumed 423-8 after Captain Joe Root scored 121, his sixth Test century this year.

But the Tails added just nine runs on Friday.

Craig Overton, 24 not out overnight, was lbw by Paesman before Mohammad Shamina hit two fours in a row off the ball and Jaspreet Bumrah ended the innings by bowling Oli Robinson to zero.

Shami picked up the Indian attack with 4-95 in 28 overs.

James Andersen, already the most successful fast bowler in Test history, took 3-6, tearing India's top order on Wednesday.

But he could not add his 629 Test wickets as attacking teammates Quix Stuart Broad, Joffra Archer, Oli Stone and Mark Wood, as well as all-rounder Ben Stokes, were bowled out for just two in 80 overs on Friday.

Rohit uprooted a rare short ball for Robinson's six.

But Overton, called up in Wood's place, produced a growing delivery that took the shoulder of K L Rahul's bat with another slip Johnny Bairstow, who was a wicketkeeper by trade, catching a superb left-handed dive against the route in the first slip.

Rahul fell to eight, but England are hopeful that Rohit and Pujara's exit from India will spark another spectacular recession.

However, Robbins twice thought he had made Rohit lbw in the 30s.

Rohit scored 35 while India missed the leg stump in the review.

The worst situation for England was when Rohit, 39, with India 73-1, was told by the umpires that he had crossed the 15-second time limit when he signaled for a review, giving only a straight striker delivery to Root. The replay suggests that the ball would have hit the middle stump.

But after completing a half-century off 125 balls, Rohit lbw the over-faithful Robinson after tea to end the 82-run partnership.

Pujara, who is famous for round resistance, completed a relatively quick half-century on the ground where he played for Yorkshire by hooking Overton for a ninth four off 92 balls.

With Rohit out, Kohli came to the crease with an average of 24 in Tests since early last year.

Root brought back Anderson, who caught the star batsman just seven runs behind in the first innings.

But after the Indian captain Virat Kohli defended his first ball in textbook fashion, Anderson clipped off his pads for a boundary on the second ball and hit the England great for a magnificent cover-drive that reached the ropes.

As the skies became increasingly dark, Root Headingley brought the floodlights to his off-break bowling with frontline spinner Moin Ali to continue the game despite being on full beam.

But even with the bowling of two spinners, the umpires decided that the natural light was low enough to end the game for the day.

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