Geoffrey Boycott
Ex-England batsman on BBC Test Match Special

I don't think half the Indian team know the rules, if it hits the pad they just shout, doesn't matter where they are.

Only one slip in place for Joe Root, as well as a man on the drive. Jadeja, omnipresent shades and goatee, angles one in from round the wicket and asks the question, but that's sliding down the leg side.

Geoffrey Boycott
Ex-England batsman on BBC Test Match Special

Alastair Cook is not in his best frame of mind. When you are, you judge what to leave and what to play but Cook made some airy fairy decisions.

The players are back out after their sandwich and brew. Ravi Jadeja, the wicket of Alastair Cook in the morning session, has the ball. England are back on the rack.

If you're particularly awake, you will notice that a vote has appeared on this page. After India coach Anil Kumble proclaimed that his side could be the best of all time, we are asking just that. Who is the best Test team of all time? England in the 1990s does not make the shortlist.

Are you just waking up? It's the last Friday before Christmas for most schools, right? Teachers and students demob happy up and down the land. Is it non-uniform or a games day? Instead of watching a film in class, maybe stick the cricket on?

Vic Marks
Ex-England spinner on BBC Test Match Special

(Vic presented Liam Dawson with his Test cap a little earlier)

It's hard to say who was more surprised - him or me. If you're in the team, anything can happen - he's going to be a very excited man.

Fahim Ahmed: 11,000 Test runs for captain Cook. A lot more yet to come

Simon Boendermaker: Is there a case for Root and Hameed to open in the summer Tests? He practically does it from number three anyway.

Thanks, JL. I'll be honest, that won't go down as one of the most memorable first sessions in Test history. Still, after being two for spit, England will have taken 68-2 at the break. Moeen Ali played a lot of shots for his seven, while Joe Root overcame an iffy start to look very good for his 44.

After that delightful and thoroughly deserved praise for the incomparably stylish David Gower, by far my favourite player of all time, it's time to hand to Stephan Shemilt for the afternoon session.

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Chris Cowdrey with thoughts on his captain on the 1984-85 trip. "David Gower was very relaxed but you all knew he had a fierce determination to win and he did very well on that tour. He said to me in a very tense situation, 'who would you bowl, the spinners or the seamers?' I said seam so he immediately replied 'Ok, spin it is!' he was always going to do that but it just lightened the mood. 

"Because he was such a great player and very popular, he always had the respect of the players. He wasn't one for Churchillian speeches, you just followed him and that was good enough for me. Nowadays he'd have to sit down and watch all the videos of every player."

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More from Chris Cowdrey on the tour of India in 1984-85: "David Gower was my great mate in cricket and he quipped about my selection: 'if you can't choose your mates, who can you pick?!' My old man (the late great Colin Cowdrey) never got a wicket and was on his way to work listening on the radio. He pulled off down a side street but it was the wrong way down a one-way street and the police pulled him over.

"The policeman allowed him to listen to one over, my first three balls were awful and old Fred Trueman was grumbling about me being the worst bowler ever and so on, but the fourth ball I got a wicket and my dad was hugging the policeman, who said to him 'just as well you've got a famous son.'"

Paul in Worcester

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Chris Cowdrey, eldest son of the legendary Colin Cowdrey, recalls the tour of India in 1984-85, when he was selected after Ian Botham chose not to travel: "I don't think anyone could replace Ian Botham and I didn't think that at all. In a way I was picked for the one-day matches so I didn't feel that pressure."

Vic Marks
Ex-England spinner on BBC Test Match Special

You sense, for England to prosper, much rests on Joe Root. He has looked a class above. The runs aren't flowing quickly. Ashwin hasn't got a wicket yet but he is the outstanding bowler.

So Joe Root remains the key for England and the amiable Yorkshireman has moved seven runs ahead of county colleague Jonny Bairstow's 1,420 runs for the calendar year. Both are looking to surpass Michael Vaughan’s record of 1,481 set in 2002.

Vic Marks
Ex-England spinner on BBC Test Match Special

It's a terrific effort by everyone involved. You wouldn't know by looking at the stadium that anything has happened. We've got a Test, against the odds.

Ashwin goes through his repertoire, some sharp spin away from the left-hander, mixed with flight and the mystical Carrom ball. But Moeen survives, very much the junior partner in the stand of 47 with England's lynchpin Root, and that will be lunch.

A frustrated bus driver