Despite the England flurry, you still can't help but think that Ashwin could get Moeen at any moment. When Moeen doesn't pick a straight one, it only misses the off stump by a coat of varnish. Ashwin will be stalking Moeen's dreams tonight, terrorising him with double-jointed arms and red spheres of fizzing leather.

Andrew Samson
BBC Test Match Special statistician

Root is the first player to score a fifty in all five matches of a Test series on two occasions, having also done so against India in 2014.

John, you are opening up a world of pain for lots of people there. When did you turn down cricket and live to regret it? A Moeen sweep off Jadeja brings up the England 100. India might be thinking about a change.

I reckon England had a little word at lunch time and decided to start playing a few more shots. Root, a face that only needs a shave twice a year, dances to loft Ashwin over mid-on for four. That's his first boundary not through mid-wicket or third man. England have scored 31 runs in eight overs since lunch.

Geoffrey Boycott
Ex-England batsman on BBC Test Match Special

Joe has wonderful defence but at the same time he is looking to score and hit the bad ball.

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Joe Root has played 11 Tests against India and has scored a half-century in every single one of them. That's an absolutely incredible record. This latest one is reached with a flat sweep off Jadeja to the mid-wicket fence and celebrated by biffing a pie of a full toss to a similar spot. In Root England trust.

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The ball is turning. Or, at least, Ashwin is getting it to turn. At times, Moeen Ali is groping in the dark. Ashwin v Root has been a fairer contest, with Root mainly happy to play with the spin on the leg side. The England VC is currently being stalled on his way to another half-ton.

Ed Smith
Ex-England batsman on BBC Test Match Special

The best user of the review system I've seen was Andrew Strauss. They had an arrangement where the bowler, keeper and the captain all had to agree.

Shane Watson, Stuart Broad and Ravi Jadeja, three men with a similar grasp of the DRS system. Jadeja just thinks every time he hits someone on the pads it is out. For for what it's worth, this one indeed struck Moeen outside the line.

Ed Smith
Ex-England batsman on BBC Test Match Special

Kohli moved behind the stumps as if he was lining up a shot in pool or snooker and decided on a review.

I'm happy to stick my neck on the line and say this isn't out. I don't think Ravi Jadeja knows the Laws. It's hit Moeen outside the line...

Australia have been bowled out on day two of the day-night Test in Brisbane. They were all out for 429, thanks to captain Steve Smith's 130 and Peter Handscomb's maiden ton (105).

Mohammad Amir and Wahab Riaz both took four wickets for Pakistan, who have just began their reply.

Ashwin is one of the games great tonguers. It's poking out of his mouth like a peeping snake as he approaches the crease. Moeen, magnificent beard, is befuddled on both edges, lucky to get a single from a Chinese cut. 

Geoffrey Boycott
Ex-England batsman on BBC Test Match Special

I wouldn't have had the match here because people have got far more important things to worry about after that storm, like if there is water in their house, as much as they love cricket. I don't know that too many people will come. Would I if my house was damaged? 

Wonderful stuff, George. I'm always interested in the lengths that people will go to in order to keep up with the cricket. I was at Leeds Festival in 2005, watching the Charlatans with some headphones in so I could hear the end of the Trent Bridge Test. Single for England off Jadeja, some good running in front of an understandably empty stadium.

Ravichandran Ashwin at t'other end, spinning the ball with the action of a man trying to scratch a hard-to-reach spot between his shoulder blades. Big turn away from Moeen Ali, who must evade three catchers on the off side. A slash through point for a couple and a sweep nailed to the square leg boundary brings up the 50 partnership.