Summary

  • Eng win toss; Moeen (120*) dropped on nought

  • Root (88) out on review; Bairstow 49

  • Cook (10) passes 11,000 Test runs

  • Eng: Liam Dawson makes Test debut

  • Final Test; India lead series 3-0

  1. get involved

    Get Involvedpublished at 07:14 Greenwich Mean Time 16 December 2016

    Text 81111

    I'd dare say that if you'd offered England four toss wins from five, they'd have felt confident of winning the series.

    Ade

  2. Eng 104-2published at 07:13 Greenwich Mean Time 16 December 2016

    Partnership 83

    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.

  3. How's stat?!published at 07:10 Greenwich Mean Time 16 December 2016

    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.

  4. Eng 100-2published at 38 overs

    Root 58, Moeen 25

    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.

  5. get involved

    Get Involvedpublished at 07:08 Greenwich Mean Time 16 December 2016

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    Wife's birthday is 12 September. In early 2005 she saw tickets for sale online for the final day of the Oval Ashes Test. She suggested I buy two tickets for her birthday. I said, 'Nah, Aussies will have won the series by then, and Tests rarely go to a fifth day.' Worst decision I ever made? Possibly.

    John from Essex

  6. Eng 99-2published at 07:08 Greenwich Mean Time 16 December 2016

    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.

  7. Postpublished at 07:06 Greenwich Mean Time 16 December 2016

    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.

  8. 50 runs

    50 for Joe Rootpublished at 07:06 Greenwich Mean Time 16 December 2016

    Eng 94-2

    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.

  9. Postpublished at 07:02 Greenwich Mean Time 16 December 2016

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  10. Eng 85-2published at 35 overs

    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.

  11. Postpublished at 06:59 Greenwich Mean Time 16 December 2016

    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.

  12. Not outpublished at 06:58 Greenwich Mean Time 16 December 2016

    Eng 83-2

    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.

  13. Postpublished at 06:57 Greenwich Mean Time 16 December 2016

    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.

  14. India reviewpublished at 06:57 Greenwich Mean Time 16 December 2016

    Eng 83-2

    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...

  15. Aussies bowled out in Brisbanepublished at 06:55 Greenwich Mean Time 16 December 2016

    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.

  16. Eng 79-2published at 06:54 Greenwich Mean Time 16 December 2016

    Root 46, Moeen 16

    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. 

  17. Postpublished at 06:51 Greenwich Mean Time 16 December 2016

    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? 

  18. Eng 78-2published at 32 overs

    Root 46, Moeen 15

    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.

  19. get involved

    Get Involvedpublished at 06:48 Greenwich Mean Time 16 December 2016

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    Have I booked an early flight so I have an excuse to be up for the cricket? Maybe. The official line to the girlfriend is that it's so we have an extra day in Copenhagen...

    George, on the way to the airport

  20. Eng 74-2published at 06:48 Greenwich Mean Time 16 December 2016

    Partnership 53

    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.