Freddie Collard: Sentences you don't hear very often: Which was your favourite century in England's Innings?

Has your alarm gone off at 8am? That's a lie-in for most, right? While you were sleeping, England were grabbing this Test match by the throat. Chief throttler has been Ben Stokes, who has made his fourth Test ton, aided by at least four missed chances. For now, the contest is dormant, we wait while England accumulate runs at will. At some point, India will get their chance to bat and the game will resume.

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Mick Baughan: If India can't take the catches it is not Ben's fault.

Simon Tinmouth: To the people talking about Stokes using up his lives. India should hold on to the catches.

Umesh Yadav continues to pound in wholeheartedly for the Indian cause. Fielders look glum, as does the crowd. Everyone appears to be waiting for the home side's turn to bat. Ben Stokes, sporting a whacking big stain on his white t-shirt, is going nowhere.

Stokes has the freedom of Rajkot at the moment. He's a cat pawing a ball of wool, with India fielders looking scared to come anywhere near him. With the streak of dirt on his shirt, tattoos and ink covering his biceps, heavy breathing, he looks like he's been wrestling bears all morning. Mishra's leggies, two singles from it.

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Jeet Vyas: Stokes using up all his luck in one innings...Wildly slogging getting a few runs on a flat road...Flat Track Bully.

Daniel Addy: Ben Stokes currently on no.8 of his allotted 9 lives...

As the sun beats down, Ashwin bowls round the wicket to Stokes with a big gap at backward point. There will be the temptation for Stokes to play the reverse sweep, but instead he settles for the leg-side push that brings up the 500. India will have forgotten that touring teams are allowed to bat for this long. They look bedraggled.

Lyn Cattell: Following the feed on the beach in Mauritius, it's a perfect combination! Cmon boys.

Martin Wood: Working in Gujarat with my Indian colleagues, very surprisingly they aren't mentioning the cricket, loving it!!

Amit Mishra wheels away for a 20th over in an innings where he has been generous enough to concede more than four runs per over. Short figure, nice paunch, hair just about clinging on. Ansari defends an unthreatening maiden.

Geoffrey Boycott
Ex-England batsman on BBC Test Match Special

England are in a lovely position. I hope England haven't been suckered into thinking 500 is OK. The pitch is not breaking up, it's not spinning or seaming, and if India happen to play well and get up to England's total, we've seen them collapse in that position. England could be looking at 600 if they'd have batted with a little bit more care.

The players have taken drinks and Virat Kohli has taken a sedative. While all of the fun has been going on at Ben Stokes' end, Zafar Ansari has been defending like a man intent of batting for a long time. When he's on strike, the field converges, when it's Stokes' turn, it spreads. India might have to rethink that, because Ansari is not your regular number 10. 

Jonathan Agnew
BBC Test Match Special

I think Virat Kohli is going to combust. He's taken his sunglasses off in the manner of a headteacher who is about to call the naughty kids into his office.

Eng 495-8published at 07:41 Greenwich Mean Time 10 November 2016

07:41 GMT 10 November 2016

Ben Stokes! You can choose my lottery numbers this weekend. Successive deliveries from Amit Mishra. The first is clubbed towards long-on and held right on the rope. Murali Vijay, though, can't stop himself from touching the boundary or pull off one of those throw-the-ball-up-then-catch-it efforts. Six runs. Next ball a top-edged sweep falls safe when it has the whole of India scampering after it. The home side must be thoroughly sick of the Durham all-rounder by now.

JG: I have an operation starting in eight minutes, it is great to has TMS on in the theatre.  

Wriddhiman Saha has had a tough day behind the stumps, mainly because it's looked like he swapped his hands for a pair of cymbals. There's not much he can do here when Ben Stokes advances to Ashwin and gets an inside edge past leg stump. Missed stumping? Only if you're being very, very harsh.

Jack Beecroft: What a great hundred to wake up to, well done Ben Stokes now have a go and pile on some extra runs.

Thomas Foulston: Root was the 1st foreign 100 in India for nearly 4 years. Ali first since yesterday. Stokes, this is getting silly now.

Matt Wilkinson: What a difference the pitch makes! Much greener! India did not learn from what Bangladesh did and prepare a dust bowl!

Are you just waking up? Good morning, sunshine. You've missed the completion of two England centuries, from Moeen Ali and Ben Stokes, and some more awful India catching. The net result is England closing in on 500 and India under the pump in a home Test since the last time England were here four years ago. Jadeja to Ansari, a maiden defended in comfort.

Andrew Samson
BBC Test Match Special statistician

The last time England made three centuries in an innings was against Sri Lanka in 2011, when Cook, Trott and Bell all got there.