Live Cricket Score, India vs England 3rd Test Day 4: India take on England in the third Test of the five-match series in Southampton on Wednesday (Source: AP)

India will have to bat out of their skin to save avoid the follow-on and save the match against England. ( Full Coverage: India tour of England)

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Day 3 recap

England’s bowlers didn’t need to aim at the stumps to run through India’s top order on Tuesday. James Anderson, Stuart Broad and Moeen Ali could get their name on the scorecard by targeting the helmet grill, pitching the ball outside off-stump or even by looping a tame half-tracker heading down the leg-side. Cheteshwar Pujara gloved a drone-like Broad delivery that chased his head, Murali Vijay dragged a ball by the same bowler to his stumps while Virat Kohli was out as he hung out his bat to a Anderson away going ball. India, on Day Three, had failed to show restraint as they forgot to bring their Test-match temperament to the field.

After the early damage by the pacers, Moeen Ali dealt a couple of soft blows with his innocuous off-spin that were more traumatic for the Indian dressing room. First Rohit Sharma played a shot that answered the often-asked question: Why has he played just six Tests so far? Five minutes before tea, Rohit, aiming for the vacant long on boundary, hit a tossed up Ali ball into the hands of mid-off. In an eerily similar dismissal, Ajinkya Rahane, five minutes after tea, hit a rank long-hop by the same bowler with the toe of his bat to short mid-wicket. A couple of obnoxious shots, after the inspiring spells in the morning, had made the England bowlers look more menacing than they actually were.

India finished the day at 246/8, needing 47 more runs to avoid the follow on. Mahendra Singh Dhoni, unbeaten on 55, had for company Mohammed Shami (4) as he tried to pull India out of trouble.