England v India: "Inspirational" Stokes and Archer's Test determination

Test Match Special

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🗓️ 15 July 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Mark Chapman analyses the key points from England's thrilling third Test win over India at Lord's, in the company of Steven Finn, Alex Hartley and Deep Dasgupta.

They look at the critical contribution from Ben Stokes, looking at how his leadership inspires the rest of the team. And they look at Jofra Archer's determination to play Test cricket after his return to the five-day format.

TIMECODES 5:15 Ben Stokes' efforts 22:48 Jofra Archer and his Test return 37:00 How do India bounce back from this defeat? 49:30 Fourth Test changes

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0:38.8	Five Live Crickets with Mark Chapman.
0:43.2	And we are going to talk about a thrilling test match at Lords that finished with
0:48.1	England beating India by 22 runs.
0:51.5	We'll analyse where the match was won and lost.
0:53.7	We'll hear from Ben Stokes, Joffra Archer and Joe Root, amongst others. We'll analyse where the match has won and lost. We'll hear from Ben Stokes,
0:54.7	Joffre Archer and Joe Root, amongst others. We'll look at where this leaves the series
0:59.1	going into the final two tests. And we'll discuss it with Stephen Finn, Alex Hartley, and
1:04.3	Deep Dus Gupta. As you sit here now, Deep, what are your overriding emotions?
1:11.7	Well, my first thing is obviously disappointment.
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