<p>Rohit Sharma once again showed a lot of patience to bring up his second half-century of the series while Cheteshwar Pujara punished the loose balls as India reached 112 for one at tea against England on the third day of the third Test here.</p>.<p>Rohit (59 batting off 142 balls), who hit his 14th Test half-century, added 78 runs with Pujara (40 batting, 72 balls), who struck as many as seven boundaries and matched Rohit stroke for stroke.</p>.<p>However, having conceded a mammoth 354-run lead after their dismal first-innings score of 78 and with 242 runs in arrears, India still have a long way to go before they are out of the woods.</p>.<p>The batting conditions are not difficult even though England pacers have bowled better lines during both sessions, especially Ollie Robinson (13-3-31-0), who produced the maximum number of unplayable balls.</p>.<p>Earlier, Mohammed Shami (4/95 in 28 overs) and Jasprit Bumrah (2/59 in 27.2 overs) polished off the tail for the addition of just nine more runs to the overnight score as England finished their first essay at 432.</p>.<p>Rohit, who has shown impeccable defence since the start of the series again put his bat down in the first session save an upper cut off Robinson, which fetched him a six along with a pull in front of the wicket and a clip off Sam Curran (6-1-29-0) towards mid-wicket boundary.</p>.<p>India lost K L Rahul (8 off 54 balls) at the stroke of lunch to Craig Overton (10-5-18-1) but when the visitors came out after lunch, Pujara surprised everyone with his aggressive batting. He was also helped by James Anderson (14-7-26-0) bowling a few freebies on his pads.</p>.<p>Scoring runs wasn't the easiest of jobs with all three England seamers hitting the deck on the tight off-stump channel but the wicket-taking edges of the first innings turned into luckless deliveries in the second.</p>.<p>Rohit mostly left what was bowled outside the off-stump and his first drive was in the post-lunch session where he reached to a wide half-volley to smash it through covers. He did again play the pull shot off Curran to get a boundary.<br /><br /></p>
<p>Rohit Sharma once again showed a lot of patience to bring up his second half-century of the series while Cheteshwar Pujara punished the loose balls as India reached 112 for one at tea against England on the third day of the third Test here.</p>.<p>Rohit (59 batting off 142 balls), who hit his 14th Test half-century, added 78 runs with Pujara (40 batting, 72 balls), who struck as many as seven boundaries and matched Rohit stroke for stroke.</p>.<p>However, having conceded a mammoth 354-run lead after their dismal first-innings score of 78 and with 242 runs in arrears, India still have a long way to go before they are out of the woods.</p>.<p>The batting conditions are not difficult even though England pacers have bowled better lines during both sessions, especially Ollie Robinson (13-3-31-0), who produced the maximum number of unplayable balls.</p>.<p>Earlier, Mohammed Shami (4/95 in 28 overs) and Jasprit Bumrah (2/59 in 27.2 overs) polished off the tail for the addition of just nine more runs to the overnight score as England finished their first essay at 432.</p>.<p>Rohit, who has shown impeccable defence since the start of the series again put his bat down in the first session save an upper cut off Robinson, which fetched him a six along with a pull in front of the wicket and a clip off Sam Curran (6-1-29-0) towards mid-wicket boundary.</p>.<p>India lost K L Rahul (8 off 54 balls) at the stroke of lunch to Craig Overton (10-5-18-1) but when the visitors came out after lunch, Pujara surprised everyone with his aggressive batting. He was also helped by James Anderson (14-7-26-0) bowling a few freebies on his pads.</p>.<p>Scoring runs wasn't the easiest of jobs with all three England seamers hitting the deck on the tight off-stump channel but the wicket-taking edges of the first innings turned into luckless deliveries in the second.</p>.<p>Rohit mostly left what was bowled outside the off-stump and his first drive was in the post-lunch session where he reached to a wide half-volley to smash it through covers. He did again play the pull shot off Curran to get a boundary.<br /><br /></p>