Summary

  • India need one more wicket to win Test

  • England were given faint hope by 169-run stand between Buttler & Stokes

  • Buttler hit highest Test score (106) in England rearguard

  • England lost four wickets for 10 runs after Buttler dismissal

  • Stokes registers his slowest Test half-century in making 62

  • Hosts chasing improbable 521 to win

Live Reporting

Matthew Henry

  1. wicket

    WICKET

    Cook c Rahul b Ishant 17 (Eng 28-2)

    OK. Now it's time to panic. Alastair Cook is the next to go. It's a very similar delivery to the one which dismissed Jennings. Cook prods and only manages to offer a slip catch to KL Rahul at second slip.

    Ishant has two wickets in two overs this morning.

  2. Could Jennings have left it?

    Make your own minds up...

  3. How's stat?!

    Andrew Samson
    BBC Test Match Special statistician

    Jennings, since his comeback in the second Test against Pakistan, has scored 123 runs in six innings at an average of 20.5. His overall average in 10 Tests is 23.16.

  4. Eng 28-1

    Cook 13, Root 0

    Jasprit Bumrah is the man Kohli turns too to bowl the second over of the day. He starts with a brilliant delivery. Somehow Cook survives one that goes past his bat and just climbs over the top of off stump. Cook had to play that one. If it had have bounced lower by a matter of inches it would have hit the stumps.

    With the Jennings wicket though the ball would have past comfortably over. He could have seen that and just let the ball go by.

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    There you go Keaton, that's how to catch a ball. Harsh? Yep. Fair? Yep.

    Keith, Alton

  6. Vic Marks
    Ex-England spinner on BBC Test Match Special

    Ishant has been a terrific asset for India throughout because he has got that ball to move. He certainly doesn't have one that comes back in to the left-hander but he is very tall and very accurate.

  7. Eng 27-1

    Jennings swished his bat in frustration after that dismissal. He wasn't happy with his efforts. It's the dream start for India. They only need nine more.

    Joe Root is out at the crease early.

    It was always going to come down to Cook and Root anyway, wasn't it?

  8. Vic Marks
    Ex-England spinner on BBC Test Match Special

    It was exactly what Ishant was looking for. He didn't know whether to play or not, it was slightly away from his body and a simple catch for the keeper.

  9. wicket

    WICKET

    Jennings c Pant b Ishant 13 (Eng 27-1)

    Ah. Five balls in and England have lost their first wicket. It's a good delivery from Ishant Sharma, moving away from left-hander Jennings from round the wicket. Could the batsman have left it on length? He gets a thin edge through to wicketkeeper Pant and is on his way.

    The last we see of Jennings for a while?

  10. Jonathan Agnew
    BBC cricket correspondent on Test Match Special

    We are under murky skies and there is more murk to come.

  11. Eng 23-0

    Target 521

    Well that start from Ishant could knock any optimism out of a few. The ball whistles past the edge of Keaton Jennings who is tentatively prodding forward.

    The Indians are awake and loud right away.

  12. Eng 23-0

    Ishant Sharma will start us off. It's dark. It's muggy. The ball is just nine overs old.

  13. Vic Marks
    Ex-England spinner on BBC Test Match Special

    If we get no interruptions from the weather I would say England have as good a chance of winning this game as drawing it. I'm with you that there doesn't seem much point in Bairstow batting today. If he does have to bat today, the game is up.

  14. Here is the history England are up against.

    The record fourth innings run-chase in Test match history is the West Indies 418-7 against Australia in 2003.

    The record at Trent Bridge is England's 284-6 against New Zealand in 2004.

    Records are there to be broken...

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  15. There are a few empty seats around Trent Bridge. Maybe the Nottingham locals don't have as much optimism as Ben.

    Here come Keaton Jennings and Alastair Cook.

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    Ben Sutton: Reasons to be cheerful:

    1. Cook either gets hardly any or 200 theses days and he’s due the latter.

    2. Root always gets 50+

    3. The middle order can smash it about given a start.

    It’s on folks!

  17. There you go. Sunny spells this afternoon. It's happening.

    Let's just ignore the fact it's currently muggy and overcast.

  18. Weather forecast

    BBC Test Match Special

    BBC Weather's Simon King: "There is a lot of cloud cover. It is warm - currently about 20C - but the cloud should break up and I'm hopeful there will be some sunny spells this afternoon. If England manage to hold on until tomorrow, it'll be another close, humid morning but then it is set fair. There will be no rain to halt things."

  19. Michael Vaughan
    Ex-England captain on BBC Test Match Special

    Chris Woakes is the only one at the height of his confidence. For the others, this is a chance to spend time in the middle

  20. Much better. That is the kind of thing I am looking for.