England vs India 3rd Test 2025: Live Streaming, Match Analysis & Full Guide

With the third Test in a series, the pivotal third Test at Lord’s from July 10-14, 2025, this comprehensive guide highlights everything fans need, a guide to live streaming, team strategies, pitch reports, last record results, and match predictions.

Broadcast/live streaming Info

Pakistan & south asian viewpoint

Streaming: Tapmad.com is the official streaming partner and it is live-streaming the event in Pakistan and also the South Asian region.

TV: Sony Sports Ten 1-3 (English, Hindi, Regional) in distribution in India.

• Streaming service: SonyLIV and JioStar (Jio + Disney+ Hotstar) (online: Live on SonyLIV and JioStar (Jio + Disney+ Hotstar) In India.
   
• UK
   
• TV– The games are telecast on Sky Sports Main Event and Sky Sports Cricket.
   
• Streaming: Sky Go, or, in addition, NOW TV is accessible.

Pitch Report & Weather Report.

Streaming: Willow TV and ESPN+ are services, in which it will be available, whereas it may be necessary to use a VPN in order to view in certain regions.

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TV and streaming: TV available on Fox Cricket and Kayo Sport, with some of the matches also being screened on the Seven Network.

Worldwide

To the Worldwide fans, there are options such as TNT Sports and tapmad that provides a flexible worldwide access based on their location and the availability.

Context / recent decision just match

Games being at 1-1 series-wise, both teams enter the fray swinging. England was hammered by India by 336 runs in a match played at Edgbaston, where India managed to score 587 & 427/6d.

Both teams' coaching sides have announced an expected move to a more pace-friendly Lord's surface than at Edgbaston.

Pitch Report & Conditions

In some first appearances, it is clear that the dressing is dense and green, with Lord giving its assistance in stoppage of seams and swinging at the start.

India batting coach Sitanshu Kotak nudged towards patience not aggression, when it comes to dealing with the Lord, which has not been that accommodating to batters.

Team News & Strategies

England

• Fresh legs: Jofra Archer is expected back after he is fit again, although Gus Atkinson is an option, and Shoaib Bashir is expected to do the mid-innings role.
   
•  Ben Stokes, under scrutiny for recent form, remains pivotal; dropping him is considered “premature”.

India

• Jasprit Bumrah returns, bolstering their pace attack significantly.
   
• Batting core—Shubman Gill, Rishabh Pant, KL Rahul, Yashasvi Jaiswal—continue in red-hot form.

Lord’s Head-to-Head Snapshot

• In 19 Tests at Lord’s, England have won 12, India 3, and 4 draws. However, India has won two of their last three Tests at the venue.

Tactical Outlook

• The winning captain in the toss will most likely bowl first with the advantage of early movement of the seam.
   
• The focus of batting will be on the collection of patients, orientation to the lateral movement, and slope of the surface .
   
• Death-over bowling is pivotal: England will possess the expertise of Archer and Bumrah as their strike bowlers, and supported by Atkinson and Bashir, England will go up against India, who have brought Seam bowling and spin their special gears.

What To Be Wary Of

1. And an early fire with the wicket.
    
2. The strength and flexibility of Stokes up the batting line against India's best bowling.
    
3. The bowlers of India with the bounce of the green, especially Bumrah on the bouncy Lord27s pitch.
    
4. Tossing strategies about the weather and the freshness of the pitch.

Final Thoughts

It is at the third Lord Test that will prove to be an interesting tug of war between tactic versus adaptation and tactic versus momentum.

Pace vs patience and tradition at Lord's, recovery after Edgbaston to a match that could well decide who goes a step ahead with a 21-series lead in the ICC World Test Championship cycle.