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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Sport
Rory Dollard

Jamie Smith and Harry Brook hundreds in vain as India turn the screw on day of batting feast and famine

Jamie Smith produced the innings of his life alongside fellow centurion Harry Brook, but their blistering counter-attack was not enough to stop India taking command of the second Rothesay Test.

England were in dire straits at 84 for five, Joe Root and Ben Stokes dismissed by successive deliveries in the second over of the third day at Edgbaston, before Smith and Brook put on a magnificent stand of 303 to breathe life into a fading cause.

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