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

Live Reporting

Jack Skelton and Matthew Henry

  1. Ind 85-5

    Virat Kohli edges it along the ground and Keaton Jennings makes a half-stop at third slip. He played that well enough, with soft hands.

  2. Replays show that would've been umpire's call. Close.

  3. Ind 83-5

    Ben Stokes goes outswinger, outswinger, inswinger - hitting Dinesh Karthik's pads.

    Big appeal but not given.

    Probably doing too much. Stokes is hooping it around.

  4. Phil Tufnell
    Ex-England spinner on BBC Test Match Special

    England have thrown the game away a couple of times and are hauling themselves back into it for a third time.

  5. Here is the Jonny Bairstow death stare after Ajinkya Rahane appeared to doubt he'd caught this cleanly...

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  7. Ind 83-5

    Need 111 to win

    Dinesh Karthik gets off the mark with a quick single into the covers.

    James Anderson bowls perhaps his first really bad ball at Virat Kohli, it's too straight and the India captain flicks it fine for four.

  8. Phil Tufnell
    Ex-England spinner on BBC Test Match Special

    You are not going to get better conditions to bowl in.

  9. Ind 78-5

    Dinesh Karthik chases a wide one!

    He imitates the shape of the ball's flight afterwards, desperately trying to visualise what Anderson is doing.

  10. Dinesh Karthik is on a pair...

  11. Ebony Rainford-Brent
    Ex-England batter on BBC Radio 5 live sports extra

    There was some serious movement from Jimmy Anderson. Ashwin looked up like he was hoping to get away with it but knew he had got a little tickle.

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  12. wicket

    WICKET

    Ashwin c Bairstow b Anderson 13 (Ind 78-5)

    There it is! Finally James Anderson gets the wickets his bowling has deserved.

    It's a perfect line - Ravichandran Ashwin just has to play at it.

    But the ball shapes away, takes the edge and Jonny Bairstow makes no mistakes.

    Anderson roars. A quintessential dismissal from England's all-time leading wicket-taker.

  13. Ind 74-4

    James Anderson induces an edge off Ravichandran Ashwin, but it flies well beyond the reach of Keaton Jennings at third slip and runs away for four.

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  16. Ind 73-4

    Stokes responds to that boundary by beating the outside edge.

    He follows it up with a booming inswinger that clatters into the pads.

    Big appeal but not given. Stokes knows that was going down leg.

    Ashwin might well have got a fine edge on it too. Set him up perfectly though. Stokes will go again.

  17. Simon Mann
    BBC Test Match Special commentator

    Ashwin is such an experienced, calm cricketer. At the moment it is looking like a good decision to promote him up the order.

  18. Ind 73-4

    Might turn out to be a decent call from India to push Ravichandran Ashwin up the order.

    Dinesh Karthik looked pretty woeful in the first innings, but Ashwin has some nice shots, driving Stokes square for four.

  19. Ben Stokes is back into the attack.

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