Summary

Boundaries, flying bats and dropped catches - Pant's 'box office' innings

Live Reporting

by Timothy Abraham, Elizabeth Botcherby & Karan Vinod

  1. Daniel Norcross
    Test Match Special commentator on BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra

    It was time thing and it's 5pm. We have finally got there and declaration has been made.

  2. India 427-6 at drinks... and declare

    The players take drinks and Shubman Gill beckons Washington Sundar and Ravindra Jadeja in.

    India have declared.

    England need 608 to win.

  3. How's stat?!

    Ashwanth R Kavuluri
    Cricviz analyst

    India have scored a thousand runs in a Test match for the first time in their history - 1009* runs aggregate in this match.

  4. Ind 422-6

    Washington Sundar with another four off Joe Root to end the over.

    The minds of England's players were frazzled when they were asked to bat late on day two after a long time in the dirt.

    How will they handle this when the declaration eventually comes?

  5. Alex Hartley
    Former England bowler on BBC Test Match Special

    It's just a waiting game at the moment and it's ruthless from captain Shubman Gill which I like.

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    I have found Gill's weakness. Keeps getting out in the something hundred and sixties.

    Viren, Croydon

  7. 6 runs

    Ind 418-6

    Washington Sundar opens his account by biffing Joe Root over over long-off for six.

  8. How's stat?!

    Ashwanth R Kavuluri
    Cricviz analyst

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    Most runs by a batter in a Test match

    • Graham Gooch - 456 v India, Lord's 1990
    • Shubman Gill - 430 v England, Birmingham 2025 - This match
    • Mark Taylor - 426 v Pakistan, Peshawar 1998
    • Kumar Sangakkara - 424 v Bangladesh, Chattogram 2014
    • Brian Lara - 400 v England, St John's 2004

  9. How's stat?!

    Ashwanth R Kavuluri
    Cricviz analyst

    Most runs as captain in their first two Tests:

    • Shubman Gill - 585
    • Virat Kohli - 449
    • Sunil Gavaskar - 429
    • Steve Smith - 367
    • Alastair Cook - 342

  10. Alex Hartley
    Former England bowler on BBC Test Match Special

    Simple catch for Zak Crawley. The dropped catch earlier in the day was so unlike him.

  11. wicket

    WICKET

    Reddy c Crawley b Root 1 (Ind 412-6)

    Nitish Kumar Reddy with a filthy slog down the ground off the bowling of Joe Root.

    Zak Crawley pouches the catch in the deep.

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    Ollie Pope and Zak Crawley need to have the second innings of their lives. They have been dreadful thus far with bat and in the field.

    Anon

  13. Matthew Henry
    BBC Sport journalist at Edgbaston

    "Boring, boring, India," the Hollies sings as Nitish Kumar Reddy emerges. No declaration.

  14. wicket

    WICKET

    Gill c & b Bashier 161 (Ind 411-5)

    Shubman Gill is on his way, at last.

    A tame prod forwards to one which bounces and the ball pops up off the bat and Shoaib Bashir continues to gather a simple caught and bowled.

    Gill caught and bowled by Bashir for 161 to end his innings

  15. 6 runs

    Ind 409-4

    Shubman Gills skips down the pitch and deposits Shoaib Bashir into the stands. His eighth six of the innings.

    Meanwhile, Joe Root is limping a little down on the boundary.

  16. Matthew Henry
    BBC Sport journalist at Edgbaston

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    Why has Ollie Pope got his sunglasses on the top of his cap if he's struggling to see in the sun?

  17. Ind 403-4

    Shubman Gill swipes across the line to Joe Root again. The ball hangs in the air inside the boundary but Ollie Pope loses it in the sun, or the crowd, and ends up dancing round before the ball thuds into the turf.

  18. How's stat?!

    Andy Zaltzman
    Test Match Special statistician

    No player has recorded a 250 and a 150 in the same Test. Shubman Gill has now achieved that.

  19. 150 runs

    Gill reaches 150

    Shubman Gill heaves Joe Root across the line for six, and brings up 150 in the process.

    Gill brings up his 150 before Pope misses the chance to catch him in the next ball

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    Are we still convinced Ben Stokes is a great in-game captain? Off the field? Sure. When batting in certain situations? Yes (three years ago). On coin tosses and fielding decisions? Mediocre to terrible. Basically he is a specialist captain at the moment like Mike Brearley. I guess that is better than being a specialist fielder like Zak Crawley, Ollie Pope...

    Mark