India registered a spectacular win in the third Test on Sunday to take a 2-1 lead in the five-match series against England. Rohit Sharma and Co. declared their innings at 430/4 on the fourth day, setting a mammoth target of 557 runs for England. However, the visiting team could not even come close to this and were bundled out for 122 runs and India registered a resounding win by 434 runs. , Yashasvi Jaiswal was India’s hero, he played a brilliant inning of 214 runs. Apart from him, debutant Sarfaraz Khan also impressed everyone by scoring back-to-back half-centuries.

Sarfaraz scored 62 runs in the first innings and remained unbeaten on 68 runs in 72 balls in the second innings. His innings in the second innings included six fours and three sixes.

In the first innings, all-rounder Ravindra Jadeja was promoted to the upper order and was sent to bat at No. 5 and Sarfaraz was asked to wait. This bet went in favor of India and Jadeja walked out after scoring 112 runs.

However, in the second innings, the Mumbai batsman came in and batted ahead of Jadeja and really justified his promotion with his innings.

“For this game, we thought he has a lot of experience and has also scored a lot of runs, we wanted a left-right combo, Sarfaraz is Sarfaraz and the quality he has, we wanted him to have time. ” Rohit said during the press conference after the match.

“We saw what he could do with the bat. [on the batting order] It is not a long-term approach, we go with the flow and what we feel on that particular day, looking at the opposition team, the bowling attack. We calculate everything and then go with the flow,” he said.

India and England will face each other in the fourth Test of the five-match series in Ranchi from February 23.