India, July 4 -- Former India and England cricketers blamed India captain Shubman Gill for "allowing" Harry Brook and Jamie Smith to counterattack and get back into the contest. Mohammed Siraj gave India a dream start on Day 3 of the second Test by dismissing Joe Root (22) and Ben Stokes (0) off successive balls in the second over of the day. England were tottering at 83 for 5, trailing India by a mammoth 510 runs. From there, Brook and Smith launched an outstanding counterattack aided by some unusually defensive tactics from India to take England past the 300-run mark.

Smith smashed the fastest century by an England keeper and the third-fastest by an English batter off just 80 balls, while Harry Brook got to his 9th Test century as the ...