Summary

  • The Ashes 2005: Settling the Score

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Live Reporting

by Tom Rostance, Timothy Abraham & Mike Peter

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    Rishabh Pant. Last man, half standing.

    Iain, Barcelona

  2. Ind 349-8

    A fair bit of bottom hand as Rishabh Pant biffs Jofra Archer to cow corner but he declines to run with four balls left in the over.

  3. How's stat?!

    Andy Zaltzman
    Test Match Special statistician

    Ben StokesGetty Images

    This is Ben Stokes' fifth five-fer in 115 Test matches. It's his first since 2017 where he had a six-fer against the West Indies at Lords. This is his 76th Test since his last five-fer. He's taken the most wickets in this series compared to any other that he's played in, he currently has 16.

  4. Ind 349-8

    Rishabh Pant is waddling singles, in the manner of a penguin trying to run the 100m.

    Ben Stokes throws his head back in anguish after a delivery zips off the pitch which beats the outside edge of Jasprit Bumrah's bat.

  5. Phil Tufnell
    Former England spinner on Test Match Special

    This is quite a crucial passage of play. If Rishabh Pant has a crazy 20 minutes and scores loads, the score will start to look a bit worrying, especially with the way the pitch is looking.

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

    Rishabh Pant has been a thorn in England's side this series. Off one foot he's just tapped it away with absolutely no follow through at all.

  7. 50 runs

    Fifty for Pant

    Rishabh Pant on leg, bunts Ben Stokes for four through extra cover. No backlift or follow through at all from the India batter.

    Pant has a half-century.

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    Say what you like about Ben Stokes' decision making as captain and 'Bazball' as a concept but I can't think of an England captain who carries the team on their shoulders more than him in my lifetime. Always there when the rest of the team's heads are dropping.

    Dan, Swindon

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

    Rishabh Pant has gone all the way! He's absolutely walloped that. It was a back of the hand, slower ball bouncer from Jofra Archer which was picked up straight away.

  10. 6 runs

    Ind 343-8

    Pant smashes Archer for six on his return from injury

    A leg-break slower ball, out the back of the hand, from Jofra Archer which you have to praise for its inventiveness rather than its effectiveness as Rishabh Pant picks it and pulls it for six!

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    Shubman Hill

    Chris, Liverpool

    Not a hill but currently following from the Trafford Council building just across the road from the ground - trying to catch what I can from the highest window in the building!

    Harry, next door

    If the French for 'hill' is 'Colline' can we get away Paul Colline-wood?

    Davide, dropped French in year nine, Not in France

  12. Ind 337-8

    I wonder if we'll see some crocked chaos from Rishabh Pant now. Jofra Archer continues.

  13. Stephan Shemilt
    BBC Sport chief cricket reporter at Old Trafford

    Stokes' last five-wicket haul in Test cricket came against West Indies at Lord's in 2017. Tom Westley, Mark Stoneman and Toby Roland-Jones were in the England team. It was the Test James Anderson took his 500th wicket.

  14. Phil Tufnell
    Former England spinner on Test Match Special

    That was an absolute corker. Finally England get an outside edge. The angle it came at, he had to play it and it's just swung away and rose up at him, the finest of nicks through to the keeper.

  15. Prakash Wakankar
    BBC Test Match Special commentator

    Ben StokesGetty Images

    Ben Stokes, two in the over. That's his fiver-fer. That's a beautiful delivery, smart catch and easily taken. Anshul Kamboj ends without scoring.

  16. wicket

    WICKET

    Kamboj c Smith b Stokes 0 (Ind 337-8)

    Two in the over for Ben Stokes, who has a five-wicket haul as Anshul Kamboj exits proceedings for a duck in his first Test innings.

    It's a peach of a delivery from the England skipper who bustles in and finds a nice length outside off stump which draws the India batter into defending.

    There's a thin edge off the top of the bat and Jamie Smith takes the catch before tossing it high into the air.

    'Terrific delivery' - Stokes takes two wickets in an over against India

  17. Phil Tufnell
    Former England spinner on Test Match Special

    Ben StokesGetty Images

    When you need something to happen, it's the captain that always comes with the goods. Washington Sundar has been watchful but he just got tempted by that Ben Stokes short ball. He's so good at luring people into making mistakes. Sundar barely stepped a foot wrong there.

  18. Prakash Wakankar
    BBC Test Match Special commentator

    Got more elevation than distance, Washington Sundar will be dismissed but when you need someone to get something done, who else other than Ben Stokes,

  19. Matthew Henry
    BBC Sport journalist at Old Trafford

    When Washington Sundar was caught Rishabh Pant just stood with his hand on his hip staring at him.

    He did not look impressed.

  20. wicket

    WICKET

    Washington c Woakes b Stokes 27 (Ind 337-7)

    Chris Woakes catchingGetty Images

    Short ball. Caught on the hook!

    Ben Stokes digs into the pitch and Washington Sundar decides to take it on just above shoulder height. However, he ends up top-edging it down to fine leg and Chris Woakes pouches the catch.

    After all that hard work Washington rather gives his wicket away.

    After a quiet period England needed that.