Summary

  • Kohli 43*, Karthik 18*

  • Sixth-wicket stand worth 32

  • India slip to 78-5; Broad two wickets

  • Eng 180: Curran (63) rallies from 87-7

  • Ishant 5-51, Ashwin 3-59

  • First Test of five-match series

  1. Postpublished at 14:42 British Summer Time 3 August 2018

    Jonathan Agnew
    BBC cricket correspondent on Test Match Special

    I'd still rather be India in this position.

  2. Postpublished at 14:41 British Summer Time 3 August 2018

    Michael Vaughan
    Ex-England captain on BBC Test Match Special

    Can England get another 50? Can they then get Virat Kohli?

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    Get Involvedpublished at 14:40 British Summer Time 3 August 2018

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    Dave Wood: If you can play day-night matches under floodlights, please explain how you can go off for bad light during the day with the floodlights on.

    James Bugden: Test cricket once again not doing itself any favours. Off for bad light at 2:30 in the afternoon.

  4. Postpublished at 14:39 British Summer Time 3 August 2018

    Michael Vaughan
    Ex-England captain on BBC Test Match Special

    If I was England out there, I'd like to have carried on. I don't think the bad light has worked for England.

  5. Postpublished at 14:38 British Summer Time 3 August 2018

    Ravi Shastri, the Indian coach, is out on the balcony looking up to the sky. There is some blue away behind the stands. This shouldn't be too long a break but frustrating nonetheless.

  6. Postpublished at 14:36 British Summer Time 3 August 2018

    I ask if this is good news for England but there is no way this game is going to be a draw. If anything this just interrupts the batsmen's rhythm and gives India a chance to regroup.

    The crowd boo as the players go off. It has been deemed the floodlights have taken over from the natural light.

    The covers are coming on too.

    Umpires Aleem Dar and Christopher Gaffaney with India"s Virat Kohli and England"s Sam Curran as they walk off the pitch due to bad lightImage source, Reuters
  7. Postpublished at 14:34 British Summer Time 3 August 2018

    Michael Vaughan
    Ex-England captain on BBC Test Match Special

    They shouldn't be off for long. You can see bright blue sky just over there.

  8. Bad light stops playpublished at 14:34 British Summer Time 3 August 2018

    Good news for England? The umpires are taking the players off for bad light. It has got pretty gloomy and the floodlights are on but this does seem strange when a day-night Test was played on this ground 12 months ago.

    Sam Curran and Adil RashidImage source, Reuters
  9. Postpublished at 14:32 British Summer Time 3 August 2018

    Stephan Shemilt
    BBC Sport at Edgbaston

    It's absolutely going off in the Hollies. Bananas, lifeguards, oompa-loompas and Kim Jong-un absolutely 'avin it. It's like a party at the Easter Bunny's house.

  10. Eng 130-7published at 42 overs

    Lead by 144

    Careful there, Adil. He almost falls into the same trap Joe Root did by nudging to the close fielder at leg slip.

    I must admit I haven't seen Ravi Ashwin bowl all of these variations before. He's gone up another level in recent years. He gets one to turn like a leg-break past Rashid's edge.

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    Get Involvedpublished at 14:30 British Summer Time 3 August 2018

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    Adlestrop CC: The England dressing room will be similar to us at home. "150 gives us something to bowl at here!"

  12. Postpublished at 14:30 British Summer Time 3 August 2018

    Jonathan Agnew
    BBC cricket correspondent on Test Match Special

    That is Dinesh Karthik's fault. He must have put Shikhar Dhawan off.

    That was going chest high to Dhawan, no reason for Karthik to go poaching there.

  13. dropped catch

    Rashid dropped on 13published at 14:28 British Summer Time 3 August 2018

    Another drop! This one is a lot more straight forward, think Shane Warne off Kevin Pietersen in 2005.

    Adil Rashid's drive goes to Shikhar Dhawan at chest height at first slip and he spills the ball. It actually loops up and gives Dhawan a second chance but can't grasp the leather. Unsurprisingly the crowd absolutely love it.

    Virat Kohli does not.

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    Get Involvedpublished at 14:26 British Summer Time 3 August 2018

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    I like this Sam Curran lad a lot, better haircut than his brother too.

    Charles, Ormskirk

  15. Postpublished at 14:26 British Summer Time 3 August 2018

    Another change from Kohli. Umesh Yadav, who opened the bowling on day one, is coming on for his first bowl of the innings.

  16. Postpublished at 14:25 British Summer Time 3 August 2018

    Sam Curran is profiting from the life he has been given. This was a very tough chance.

  17. Postpublished at 14:24 British Summer Time 3 August 2018

    Michael Vaughan
    Ex-England captain on BBC Test Match Special

    The art of picking up length quickly is the art of batting. It's what Sam Curran has done well so far.

  18. Eng 129-7published at 40 overs

    Curran 30, Rashid 13

    Sam Curran is making a lot of friends in Birmingham here. Ashwin is too short. Curran pulls for four. The lead is over 140.

  19. Postpublished at 14:22 British Summer Time 3 August 2018

    Amy Lofthouse
    BBC Sport at Edgbaston

    The lights are on at Edgbaston. The crowd have found their voice. Rashid is swinging with abandon. It’s quite good, Test cricket, isn’t it?

    Adil RashidImage source, AFP
  20. Postpublished at 14:22 British Summer Time 3 August 2018

    Virat Kohli's seam-bowling experiment is done. He's going back to Ravichandran Ashwin. That is the first thing the India captain has done wrong all game.