The first boundary since the 60th over as Ollie Pope hammers a straight drive past Anshul Kamboj, bringing up the hundred partnership.

Consecutive Pope twos then take England past 300.

Oliver: I don't think we're giving England nearly enough credit. Fantastic stuff for large parts of this series, including today. Being an England Test cricket fan has never been better.

Ollie Pope and Joe Root take a single apiece from the first two deliveries of Ravindra Jadeja's over, then Pope faces four dot balls.

66 overs done, and England trail India by 66. Joe Root, number 66, at the crease, averaging... just over 66 at this ground (67 as of 15 minutes or so ago, but who's quibbling?).

Deep Dasgupta
Former India wicketkeeper

These two have batted really well. For India to get back into this game, it is imperative that they win today.

First hour and a half has not been that way and India's strategy has been baffling - Ravindra Jadeja comes into bowl an hour after the start of play and we still haven't seen Washington Sundar.

Ollie Pope takes another single towards mid-off from Anshul Kamboj's first ball, before Joe Root faces five dot balls.

Rufus Bullough
CricViz analyst

This morning has seen just 0.37° of seam movement from the pace bowlers, the lowest figure for any session in the series so far.

A couple more singles to end Ravindra Jadeja's over.

We've got just over half an hour until lunch.

Phil Tufnell
Former England spinner on Test Match Special

It's all part of the wearing down process, isn't it? Quick singles, ones to twos, when things are not going your way these things run you ragged and you pinch things that leads to over throws, it all helps.

Matthew Henry
BBC Sport journalist at Old Trafford

A bunch of bananas rise to their feet to applaud Ollie Pope’s fifty.

50 for Ollie Popepublished at 63.2 overs

63.2 overs

Eng 287-2

There's Ollie Pope's half-century!

He knocks a single off Ravindra Jadeja to pass 50 for the 25th time in Tests (nine of those are hundreds).

It comes off 93 deliveries.

Sub wicketkeeper Dhruv Jurel is standing up to Anshul Kamboj, but might that not be the best call?

Ollie Pope offers a small edge and it clips Jurel's gloves on the way to the ground - it would have been a remarkable take, and I'm not sure it would have carried had he been standing back, but perhaps we should call that a drop.

Pope then takes a single through point to move to 49.

Here's the moment Joe Root moved to third in the all-time Test run-scorers list.

A great of the game.

A first sight of spin today, as Ravindra Jadeja comes on to bowl - he took 1-37 from eight overs yesterday.

As with the last over, Ollie Pope faces five dot balls then takes a single from the final delivery, pushing to mid-off.

Woops.

Ollie Pope knocks Anshul Kamboj's last delivery towards mid-on to deny the seamer a maiden, but Mohammed Siraj needlessly hurls down the stumps at the batter's end.

Wicketkeeper Dhruv Jurel can only get a finger on it, and the ball flies away for five overthrows.

Phil Tufnell
Former England spinner on Test Match Special

I can't believe that India haven't got a spinner on especially Washington Sundar after getting four wickets at Lord's. But that's not all on Shubman Gill as there might be someone from the backroom staff that passed a message along with the drinks to the players.

Michael Vaughan
Former England captain on BBC Test Match Special

India haven't done the research well enough at Old Trafford. There's two things that work here - real quality spin or pace. Kuldeep Yadav should have been played and Prasidh Krishna bowls 10 mph quicker.

I have to say Jasprit Bumrah has looked okay and playable today. He hasn't got that oomph that he got out of the surface at Lord's when he bowled that incredible spell and it's the pace that Bumrah is not able to generate unlike Ben Stokes and Jofra Archer.