After drawing the first of the five Test series against England in Trentbridge, India bounced back to comfortably win the second Test at the Lords by 95 runs, thereby also breaking a 15-match drought without an overseas Test win.

High on spirits, the visitors ventured into the third Test at Rose Bowl, Southampton on Sunday, only to prove their inconsistency once again. Winning the toss, England opted to bat and made the Indian bowlers toil throughout the day piling up 247 runs for two wickets on a batting pitch. Till the time of writing this article, England had amassed 428 runs on the scoreboard losing only five wickets.

The third Test started depressingly for the Indian fans, as they learnt that pacer Ishant Sharma, their match-winning bowler at Lords, was ruled out of the team following an injury. What was worse for the visitors is that Ravindra Jadeja, who has been fined by the match referee for Level 1 offence in the Trentbridge test, dropped England captain Alastair Cook on 14 during the first hour of the match on the opening day. A confident Cook later went on to score 95 runs. Ironically, his wicket was taken by Jadeja.

Apart from Cook, Gray Ballance scored 156 runs, while Ian Bell was unbeaten on 115.

Among the Indian bowlers, Bhuvneshwar Kumar scored two wickets, while Jadeja, Rohit Sharma and Mohammed Shami scored one wicket each.

The third Test will continue till July 31 and play will begin at 6.00 a.m. ETD (11 a.m. BST and 3.30 p.m. IST) daily.

The Test will be broadcast on STAR Sports in India and Sky Sports in the United Kingdom. The matches will also be shown on SuperSport in South Africa, PTV Sports in Pakistan, Ten Sports in Sri Lanka, OSN in the Middle East, and Fox Sports in Australia.

Watch the match live at starsports.com and crichomes.com.

Live streaming will be available through most broadcasters.

The 4th Test will start on August 7 at Old Trafford in Manchester. The 5th Test will start on August 15 at Kensington Oval in London.

The series will then shift to ODIs, starting with India playing Middlesex on August 22, at Lord's, before playing England through early September. After the 5th ODI on September 5 the Only T20I between the teams will be played on Sunday, September 7.

India

MS Dhoni (captain and wicketkeeper), Shikhar Dhawan, Murali Vijay, Cheteshwar Pujara, Virat Kohli, Ajinkya Rahane, Rohit Sharma, Ravindra Jadeja, Ishant Sharma, Gautam Gambhir, Varun Aaron, Pankaj Singh, Wriddhiman Saha (wicketkeeper), Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Ravichandran Ashwin, Ishwar Pandey, Stuart Binny, Mohammed Shami.

England

Alastair Cook (captain), Moeen Ali, James Anderson, Gary Ballance, Ian Bell, Stuart Broad, Chris Jordan, Liam Plunkett, Jos Buttler (wicketkeeper), Sam Robson, Joe Root, Ben Stokes, Chris Woakes, Simon Kerrigan.