India, July 11 -- India couldn't have hoped for a better start to Day 2 of the 3rd Test against England at Lord's than the one Jasprit Bumrah provided them with. The India pace spearhead, who missed the Edgbaston Test, immediately made an impact in the early stages on Friday when he dismissed overnight batters Ben Stokes and Joe Root off successive overs to hand his team back the advantage. Bumrah produced an in-dipper that took Stokes' off-stump and then had Root play on to make it three wickets in the innings.

The very next ball, three became four when Bumrah sent Chris Woakes back for a first-ball duck. However, truth be told, it almost didn't happen. After the ball passed Woakes' bat to land in the gloves of stand-in wicketkeeper Dhr...