Summary

  • Bairstow (89) & Woakes (25) fall late on

  • England rally from 87-4 & 144-5

  • Bairstow & Buttler (43) add 69

  • Cook, Root, Moeen & Stokes fall to loose shots

  • Toss: England; India lead series 1-0

  1. Missed stumpingpublished at 07:39 Greenwich Mean Time 26 November 2016

    Eng 150-5

    Just waking up? Why? It's Saturday. England have lost five wickets, four of them awful. Jonny Bairstow is playing a lone hand but here could have been stumped. A dragged foot, just out of the ground, not gathered by Parthiv Patel. If India get Jonny, this could be done before tea.

  2. How's stat?!published at 07:37 Greenwich Mean Time 26 November 2016

    Andrew Samson
    BBC Test Match Special statistician

    Bairstow's fifty came from 76 balls, with five boundaries. It took him 102 minutes.

  3. Postpublished at 07:37 Greenwich Mean Time 26 November 2016

    Sunil Gavaskar
    Former India captain on BBC Test Match Special

    Jonny Bairstow is relishing the challenge of the promotion in the batting order. England's batting certainly has a lot of depth. Apart from Bairstow, nobody has shown the characteristics to stay at the wicket so far. A very fine innings.

  4. 50 runs

    50 for Jonny Bairstowpublished at 07:36 Greenwich Mean Time 26 November 2016

    Eng 150-5

    Jonny Bairstow celebrates his half centuryImage source, AP

    With clowns and jokers all around him, Jonny Bairstow has got stuck in the middle. The Yorkshire run machine goes to yet another half-century with a drive flashed behind point for four. It's his 13th fifty in Test cricket. Without him, England would probably have been all out by now. 

  5. View from the press boxpublished at 07:33 Greenwich Mean Time 26 November 2016

  6. Eng 145-5published at 07:32 Greenwich Mean Time 26 November 2016

    So Jos Buttler, who has only seen a red ball once since last October, has to dig England out of the brown. His defence against Ashwin is, erm, iffy, but he survives. If he gets runs here, it will be a top effort. 

  7. Postpublished at 07:31 Greenwich Mean Time 26 November 2016

    Jonathan Agnew
    BBC Test Match Special

    Clearly there was something said there. Stokes didn't like it and the umpires didn't like it. Stokes missed that by some distance.

  8. Eng 144-5published at 07:31 Greenwich Mean Time 26 November 2016

    Jadeja 8-2-20-1

    Ben Stokes is stumpedImage source, AP

    Looking again, Stokes wasn't even in the right post code. He's played for turn that wasn't there. Virat Kohli (who else?) looks to have been the antagonist. Good luck, Jos Buttler.

  9. Postpublished at 07:30 Greenwich Mean Time 26 November 2016

    Sunil Gavaskar
    Former India captain on BBC Test Match Special

    That was really unneccessary. Jadeja hardly ever flights the ball so there was no need for him to go down the pitch and get stumped by a mile. The partnership was settling down and steadying England. Because he has batted so well in these Test matches it was important for Stokes to keep going. I'm surprised why he went down the pitch.

  10. wicket

    WICKETpublished at 07:27 Greenwich Mean Time 26 November 2016

    Stokes st Parthiv b Jadeja 29 (Eng 144-5)

    India's players celebrate the wicket of Ben StokesImage source, AP

    What in the name of WG Grace was that? Ben Stokes was defending Ravi Jadeja with a toothpick, no trouble whatsoever. However, the lack of scoring got to the England all-rounder, who has run down the pitch, missed it by a mile and been stumped by half a track. Simply awful. Stokes gets a send-off from someone that he isn't happy about. If you don't like that, Ben, don't play stupid strokes.

  11. Postpublished at 07:26 Greenwich Mean Time 26 November 2016

    Sunil Gavaskar
    Former India captain on BBC Test Match Special

    England need at least 200 more runs, just to feel safe. If you bat four sessions in any Test match, you keep yourself in the game. Bat for five sessions or more and its pretty difficult to lose that Test.

  12. Eng 143-4published at 07:25 Greenwich Mean Time 26 November 2016

    Bairstow 47, Stokes 29

    Ashwin continues, his army action looking like a man trying to swat a fly. Ooohhh, rare loose one from Stokes, trying to cut a delivery that's miles too close. Lucky not the edge behind or chop on. From the crowd, I can hear chanting. No idea who from, empty seats outnumber fans by about 20 to one.

  13. How's stat?!published at 07:22 Greenwich Mean Time 26 November 2016

    Andrew Samson
    BBC Test Match Special statistician

    Jonny Bairstow and Ben Stokes celebrate their 50 partnershipImage source, AP

    The 50 partnership came up from 87 balls. It's the fifth time Bairstow and Stokes have reached a fifty partnership in their last eight innings together.

  14. Eng 141-4published at 42 overs

    There are lots of short floodlight pylons around the ground, maybe about a dozen. Apparently they can't be too high because of how close the ground is to the airport. Still Jadeja, with any sort of turn starting to look mythical. How are England four down on this deck?

  15. Postpublished at 07:19 Greenwich Mean Time 26 November 2016

    Sunil Gavaskar
    Former India captain on BBC Test Match Special

    These two are England's best batsman in the series so far. Stokes has been very consistent and tough to get out. They've shown there's nothing in this pitch.

  16. Eng 138-4published at 07:19 Greenwich Mean Time 26 November 2016

    Partnership 51

    I'm trying to think of dependable cricketing combos. English ones in particular. Have any been more trustworthy than Stokes and Bairstow in recent times? It seems they are forever digging England out of shtuck. Alastair Cook might want to get them his and his shovels for Christmas. Fifty partnership. England need them to add another three of those.

  17. Postpublished at 07:16 Greenwich Mean Time 26 November 2016

    Sunil Gavaskar
    Former India captain on BBC Test Match Special

    Jadeja can get through an over in a minute or two. England have tried over the last few Tests to make him wait and make him take his time at the top of his run up.

  18. Eng 136-4published at 07:16 Greenwich Mean Time 26 November 2016

    If you're keeping tabs on the quest for a cloudless Test series, we're  a step closer today. Over the vast, empty bowl is blue stuff and sun. Ravi Jadeja is bowling like a man who loses a pound for every run he conceded. Rapid, accurate maiden.

  19. get involved

    Get Involvedpublished at 07:14 Greenwich Mean Time 26 November 2016

    Text 81111

    It would appear to be de rigueur to be listening from somewhere exotic whilst starting a gap year in far flung Asia but I'm listening to this dross (the cricket, not the commentary) in my kitchen in Kent. I don't even have a new baby to blame for being up early. This is a bah humbug of a text I accept that, but all these bright young things with their shiny futures ahead of them might think of the rest of us once in a while and pretend that they are listening from their shed in Blackpool instead.

    John in Bromley

  20. Eng 136-4published at 07:14 Greenwich Mean Time 26 November 2016

    Bairstow 42, Stokes 27

    Jonny Bairstow must be a nightmare on a long car journey. It's impossible to keep him still. Instead of "are we there yet?" we get sweeps, nudges and scampering. Ben Stokes is more block or shot, playing a trademark back-foot drive square on the off side for four. This stand is worth 49.