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The third Test of the ongoing five-match series between India and England ended with a 22-run win for the hosts on Monday (July 14). In reply to the 193-run target set by the English team, India, despite an unbeaten 61-run knock from 181 balls by Ravindra Jadeja, could only manage to score 170 runs in 74.5 overs. Jadeja, who tops the ICC Test all-rounder’s ranking, tried his best with the bat to keep India’s chances alive of securing a famous win at the Home of Cricket, but he failed to seal the deal.

Despite not being able to help India get the better of England in the Lord’s Test, Jadeja earned a lot of praise for his knock from fans and experts of the game, but his twin half-centuries (72 and 61) were not enough to help him bag the Player of the Match award.
Instead, the POTM award in the third India-England Test was won by England Test captain Ben Stokes. The 34-year-old all-rounder, who shared the dressing room with Jadeja during his time as a Chennai Super Kings player in IPL 2023, scored 44 and 33 runs in two innings of the Lord’s Test and picked up 2 and 3 wickets.
 

In the first innings, he added 88 runs for the sixth wicket with Joe Root (104) to help England post a total of 387 runs, and in the second innings, he dismissed Akash Deep (1), KL Rahul (40), and Jasprit Bumrah (5) to win the match for the home team.

The POTM award on Monday also helped Stokes become the first player in the world to win four POTM awards in Test matches played at Lord’s.

Ben Stokes’ POTM awards at Lord’s (in Tests)

Most POTM awards in the Lord’s Test

• 4 – Ben Stokes (England)
• 3 – Joe Root (England)
• 3 – Glenn McGrath (Australia)
• 3 – Stuart Broad (England)

Stokes has won 11 POTM awards for England in 114 Tests played so far. Only Joe Root (13) and Ian Botham (12) have won more POTM awards for the English team in the five-day format of the game than Stokes.

Most POTM awards for England in Tests

The overall record of winning the most POTM awards in Tests is in the name of former South African all-rounder Jacques Kallis. Kallis played a total of 166 Tests from 1995 to 2013 and won 23 POTM awards.