The Ashes 2005: Settling the Score
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Stylish from Zak Crawley.
The England opener stands tall and on drives Mohammed Siraj for four.
Wonder if Crawley will change his mud-stained cable knit sleeveless jumper during the tea break. Cricketers are a suspicious bunch.
'Beautifully driven' - Crawley drives Siraj for four
Andy Zaltzman
Test Match Special statistician
Image source, Getty ImagesZak Crawley has the best record of any England player against balls of 88 miles per hour or more, he averages 80.
Anshul Kamboj poses little threat in the remainder of his over as we edge closer to the tea interval. Zak Crawley and Ben Duckett will want to get through for a cuppa and sticky bun with their wickets in tact.
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Anyone for a trip to the Andes-son mountains?
James (pretending to work) in Cardiff
As we’re at Old Trafford, and acknowledging this is England *& Wales*, how about Yr WyddFarokh Engineer?
Che, West Bridgford
Daniel Norcross
Test Match Special commentator on BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra
This has been an enterprising start from England. Once again, India have fallen into the trap of leaving deep point open.
Ben Duckett is playing so well off his legs he's now stepping across his stumps and whipping them from his off stump as Anshul Kamboj is clipped for four.
Daniel Norcross
Test Match Special commentator on BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra
Image source, Getty ImagesMohammed Siraj can't believe it.
The ball-tracking technology shows it's bouncing over the stumps.
Sir Alastair Cook
Ex-England captain on BBC Test Match Special
I'm very confident that it's too high.
Hmmm, looks a bit too high this.
The kind of one a bowler feels absolutely convinced about but tend to be not out.
Daniel Norcross
Test Match Special commentator on BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra
Mohammed Siraj is demanding that we go upstairs, he's absolutely convinced.
That was a dangerous leave by Zak Crawley.
An exaggerated leave from Zak Crawley hits him on the pad. He's not playing a shot and Mohammed Siraj pleads with Shubman Gill to review it.
The India captain was practically intimidated into doing so.
Shubman Gill claps his hands to encourage Mohammed Siraj but Zak Crawley picks up back-toback boundaries.
Crawley unfurls that booming drive to a delivery with a scramble seam and almost inside-edges one on to his stumps.
Crawley hits back-to-back fours against India
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Dan Pickering: Re Cricketing hills. Mount Rushmore
Deep Dasgupta
Former India wicketkeeper
It was after around 15 overs where we saw the ball really do something. Give it a few more overs and then we might start to see it move a bit more.
Image source, Getty ImagesAnshul Kamboj gets a change of ends as he returns in place of Jasprit Bumrah.
Zak Crawley and Ben Duckett happy to work it into the gaps.
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Re Cricket hills. Mount Kilimanjarohit Sharma.
Jim, Wiltshire
How about K2 Rahul
Peter, in sunny Formby
K2L Rahul
Lee, Hove
Prakash Wakankar
BBC Test Match Special commentator
This has been a good reply from Mohammed Siraj.
A couple of nip-backers from Mohammed Siraj to finish his over and Zak Crawley attempts the same shot but cannot make quite such clean contact.
Jem Green
CricViz data analyst
Since the start of 2020 (when Zak Crawley first opened), there have been eight batters that have opened in Test matches in 50 innings or more. Crawley has scored 25 runs or fewer in 63% of his innings. Only Kraigg Brathwaite has a worse record in this period.
Batter - % inns 0-25 runs:
