50 for Vijaypublished at 38 overs

38 overs

Ind 109-1

A lovely way to bring up your 50, late cutting Moeen away for four. These two are firmly in control.

Minimum of 15 overs remain today. Anderson will start the countdown. It is a maiden but there's no movement, no beating of bats. Pujara is behind everything forcefully pushing forward like a cricketing prop.

Geoffrey Boycott
Ex-England batsman on BBC Test Match Special

It's a good total, 400, if you have decent spinners but England's spinners are nowhere near as good as India's. They have one good spinner and one average spinner. They leak a lot of runs and it's very hard for them to squeeze pressure.

Moeen continues. It is a probing over but fails to threaten a breakthrough.

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Class from Pujara. He brings up India's 100 with a late chop-cut off the returning Anderson through the gap and down to the rope at third man. He follows it up with an excellent back-foot drive for another boundary. Anderson thinks he has the last laugh after steering a ball into the batsman's thigh pad, but the ball was clearly going down.

Joe Harvey: Sachin Baby, coming down the chimney tonight.

Kevin H: 'Last Test match I gave it away, this one to save us from tears I'll try and bat sensibly.

Peter Eastwood: I'm dreaming of a Craig White Christmas.

Moeen is back. He produced the one true moment of bowling class by England so far to spin one right through Rahul to claim the one wicket to fall. He tries to repeat the trick but Pujara is better with his feet, dancing down to clip a single down the ground.

Stu Harman: Once in Rahul Dravid's City.

Darren Coverley: On the first day of Christmas, my true love sent to me: Keaton Jennings from the UAE.

George Finch: All I want for Christmas is Younis Khan.

What is not to like about Ben Stokes? You never get anything less than total commitment to the cause. He's getting nothing from this wicket, but yet he continues to charge in and find a good line. A maiden means he has now conceded just four runs from his four overs.

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Right now, though, I'll just take a wicket. Rashid comes mighty close, spinning one through Vijay's gate and just past off stump. Only an inch in it.

Sunil Gavaskar
Former India captain on BBC Test Match Special

Murali Vijay has weathered the storm because they did pepper him with short deliveries after he got out to short balls in the previous two Test matches.

Andrew Samson
BBC Test Match Special statistician

The 50 partnership between Pujara and Vijay has come off 98 balls.

A couple of singles brings up the 50 partnership. Very solid and panic-free it has been.

I don't mean to worry anyone but Pujara has scored 1,274 runs in his last 10 first-class matches. He averages 91.

Sunil Gavaskar
Former India captain on BBC Test Match Special

It's a very robust reply by India, particularly the manner they have looked to attack the spinners, especially Adil Rashid because he is the one getting a lot of turn.

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It only needs a fraction of misjudgment from Rashid to give these two room to score, so when he chucks a full-bunger Vijay's way he is gift-wrapping a boundary. That is exactly what happens. Shame, as it ruins all the good work before it and diminishes the prospects of a breakthrough after it in the over.

Michael Vaughan
Ex-England captain on BBC Test Match Special

It's a bit cat and mouse at the moment. I think it's that kind of pitch. England will look to restrict the score from one end and hope the spinners can attack from the other. 

Jonny Gould, London

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The drinks sellers are doing a roaring trade in the stands as the sun belts down. The recipients are sat down as well so imagine how rough this weather is on Ben Stokes. He rumbles in to the wicket but the best he can do is keep it tight and create a pressure base from which Rashid can attack.

New Zealand are struggling to avoid a 3-0 whitewash in their one-day series against Australia.

The Kiwis have just lost their sixth wicket for 113, chasing 265 to win the third ODI at the MCG.

Optimistically, they need 152 from 152 balls. 

Earlier David Warner hit 156 off 128 balls - his seventh ODI century of 2016 - in Australia's 264-8.

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