England found themselves a bowler down in the fourth Test against India after Stuart Broad retired hurt, having being struck on the nose by a bouncer while batting at Old Trafford on Saturday.
Broad, in the first over after lunch on the third day, hooked a couple of Varun Aaron bouncers for two sixes in as many balls.
But, trying to make it three in a row, he failed to connect with a bouncer timed at 141km/h, the ball lodging between the peak of his helmet and the grill.
Broad immediately signalled for the England physiotherapist to come on and, after several minutes’ on-field treatment, with blood coming out of a nose wound, walked off as he retired hurt on 12, with England then 8-338.
Broad did not resume his innings when new-ball partner James Anderson was ninth man out, with England thus 367 all out for a first-innings lead of 215 runs.
Fast-medium bowler Broad, who took six for 25 as India were skittled out for 152 in the first innings of this match, remained off the field at the start of India’s second innings, with his place taken by substitute fielder Liam Livingstone of Lancashire.
With Livingstone not permitted to bowl, all-rounder Chris Woakes was given the job of sharing the new ball with local hero Anderson.
Earlier, England top-order batsmen Joe Root and Moeen Ali had also been unsettled by bouncers from Aaron, recalled for this Test by India with the five-match series all square at 1-1.
Root top-scored with 77 while, for India, Bhuvneshwar Kumar took three for 75, Aaron three for 97 and Pankaj Singh two for 113 – his first wickets in Test cricket.
The five-match series is level at 1-1.
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