Former England captain Michael Vaughan has said that India skipper Shubman Gill did not look “technically tight” and lacked the usual calm when he came out to bat in the second innings of the third Test match.

Gill, who scored a century in the first Test at Headingley and then broke a number of records while scoring a century and a double hundred in Birmingham, could score only 16 and 6 in the Lord’s Test.

“When things got spicy on the third evening, I felt that brought the best out of England for the remainder of the game. The winning mentality of the captain just coursed through the whole side. England have never had a captain quite like Ben Stokes. One who just does not accept when he is beaten, one who does not accept his team are having a bad week, and can drag a game back his way through sheer skill and force of will,” said Vaughan in his newspaper column.

Stokes looked all charged up throughout the Test, taking five wickets and scoring 44 and 33 runs in the two innings. “It was Stokes who stuck with Joe Root on the first evening to ensure they toughed out a score. It was Stokes who pulled off that brilliant run-out before lunch on Day Three when India were taking control of the game. And it was Stokes who picked up key wickets in both innings, bowled that epic spell early on the last day, and then broke Jasprit Bumrah’s resistance. He just knows how to win the biggest moments in Test matches,” said the former England captain.

Complimenting the Indian side, Vaughan said, “India are 2-1 down, but you’d have to say they’ve won more sessions than England.”