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Thanks Stephan, we had blue milk with it today as well, which is always a bonus, never go for that health conscious red-topped nonsense with coffee. So, a good afternoon session for England with 114 runs in 31 overs for the loss of one wicket - but it was the key one of Joe Root for 88, and his frustration may yet be compounded by a call from the match referee Jeff Crowe given the vociferous nature of his return to the pavilion - I think that boundary rope is in one piece.

Jamie Lillywhite is the only man whose coffee I will drink. He's also back in the hotseat for the final session.

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ECB head of women's cricket Clare Connor on TMS: "Tammy Beaumont's had a phenomenal year for England. She's played every game this year and scored nearly 1,000 runs in white-ball cricket and made that position at the top of the order her own."

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ECB head of women's cricket Clare Connor on TMS: "We're looking at arranging a camp in the UAE in April, and that's Sarah's main target [to return]."

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ECB head of women's cricket Clare Connor on TMS: "Sarah Taylor's doing brilliantly. She's been well supported by professional support, friends, team-mates and family, there's a greater understanding of what she's been going through and she's like the old Sarah Taylor again. She's been playing more and more cricket, she's in regular contact with everyone and I think she's getting there. She's made enough progress for us to offer her another central contract, and we hope to see her back in the not-too-distant future."

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ECB head of women's cricket Clare Connor on TMS: "The main reason it's significant is it gives the players extra financial certainty when there isn't an underpinning county game. If a male player loses his ECB central contract he goes back into the county game. So it allows the players to focus on a huge couple of years."

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At tea, the ECB's director of women's cricket Clare Connor will be on TMS, speaking about the reveal of the latest round of central contracts.

Sarah Taylor, who has been out of the game with anxiety issues, gets one of the new two-year contracts, while Alex Hartley and Beth Langston are included for the first time.

You can read more here.

Geoffrey Boycott
Ex-England batsman on BBC Test Match Special

It was England's afternoon without doubt, Joe Root didn't allow the bowlers to settle and Moeen played quite well. If you just work hard with concentration and patience when you first go in, it may take a while to get to 20 but after that runs will come because I've seen nothing from the seamers and for the spinners it is so slow that the margin for error is tiny.

That's tea, the end of a session that belongs to England. The only sour note came with that controversial wicket of Joe Root. Still, I suspect the tourists would take 182-3. Interesting last session coming up, because a couple of quick ones would yet have India on top.

Geoffrey Boycott
Ex-England batsman on BBC Test Match Special

Jonny will feel he should have hit it for four!

I've genuinely no idea how the umpires didn't see this first time. Maybe they thought Bairstow hit it into his foot, but, judging but the distance the ball carried, he'd need toes made of rubber.

To me, this looked like a bump ball, but India are convinced that Jonny Bairstow has chipped Ashwin to mid-wicket. Soft signal is out, so Bairstow is in the soup here...

Geoffrey Boycott
Ex-England batsman on BBC Test Match Special

I used to play those all the time when I was two not out - when I was dreaming! And I'd wake up in a cold sweat. Jonny plays naturally and he should be in the one-day team.

Eng 179-3published at 08:37 Greenwich Mean Time 16 December 2016

08:37 GMT 16 December 2016

Bosh! No playing for tea from Jonny Bairstow, who biffs Ravi Jadeja back over his head for a straight maximum, the first six of the match. That's gone halfway up the stand. If the bricks and mortar hadn't got in the way, they'd have needed a bike to fetch that back.

Gary in Weybridge.

I'm sure plenty of air time will be given to Ishant Sharma's top bun during the course of this match. It will probably end up with its own Twitter account. There was a Spitting Image sketch that had Bruce Forsyth's hair acting independently from his body. It's like that. Bairstow, still watchful, gets off the mark with a single on the off side.

Geoffrey Boycott
Ex-England batsman on BBC Test Match Special

Jadeja changed his pace but bowled it smartly on a length, it was lovely bowling and lovely batting from young Bairstow, with good foot movement and defence, yet nothing happened, no runs or wickets.

Add this to the lift of things you don't often see at a Test. One of the upper stands is behind a glass or perspex window. There's a chap abseiling from the roof, cleaning as he goes. You don't get the window cleaner doing the bizo during a Test at Lord's, do you? Jadeja round the wicket to Bairstow, who isn't interested in playing. There are 15 minutes to go before tea.

John in Winchester