Summary

  • Rahul 127*, Rahane 1*

  • Two wickets for Anderson

  • Rohit 83, Kohli 42

  • Openers Rohit & Rahul add 126

  • Eng: Hameed's first Test since 2016

  • Hameed, Moeen & Wood return

  • Second Test, Lord's; England won toss

  • Five-match series level at 0-0

  1. Ind 46-0published at 19.1 overs

    Woody is up at 89mph straight away.

  2. Postpublished at 13:52 British Summer Time 12 August 2021

    Time for a bit of express pace - here comes Mark Wood.

    Joe Root has opted for three slips and no gully.

  3. Postpublished at 13:52 British Summer Time 12 August 2021

    Stephan Shemilt
    BBC Sport at Lord's

    This is only the third home Test that Stuart Broad has missed since 2010. They haven't won either of the other two.

  4. Ind 46-0published at 19 overs

    Rohit Sharma lets the first ball go by, before getting solidly in behind the final ball of a very long over.

    This is a really big session for England you feel.

  5. Postpublished at 13:50 British Summer Time 12 August 2021

    The players are back out, and we're going to get some cricket.

    The sky is grey, but hopefully any rain has drifted away.

    Ollie Robinson still has two balls to bowl in his sixth over.

  6. Postpublished at 13:47 British Summer Time 12 August 2021

    England's selector is head coach Chris Silverwood now, don't forget. He makes a decision on who to include in squads after consultation with Joe Root (and Eoin Morgan in white-ball cricket).

    If anyone knows about Porter's ability it is Silverwood, having coached him at Essex when they won the County Championship in 2017.

    Porter has been in and around for the England squad for a number of years now, and has taken 375 first-class wickets in 98 games.

  7. get involved

    Get Involvedpublished at 13:45 British Summer Time 12 August 2021

    #bbccricket

    Abdul Rehman: Jamie Porter never makes into an England XI. Why is that? Do ECB selectors have a personal grudge on the lad? I do not know. Porter's county stints are always filled with performances. He should be a first-choice seamer.

  8. Postpublished at 13:42 British Summer Time 12 August 2021

    Michael Vaughan
    Former England captain on BBC Test Match Special

    In the last four or five weeks there should have been four or five rounds of County Championship cricket so players that are just Test players like Dom Sibley and Haseeb Hameed would have been playing cricket. It is also important to have that cricket while Test is going on so people can makes centuries, and take five-wicket hauls, and put pressure on the people that are playing in the Test team and not delivering.

  9. Postpublished at 13:41 British Summer Time 12 August 2021

    Is the solution a calendar rejig?

    We don't know how next year's summer will look with England women playing in the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham.

    They are due to run 28 July-6 August - so in the middle of this year's Hundred competition - so it is unclear at this stage how that tournament will be scheduled next summer, alongside the county competitions.

  10. Postpublished at 13:39 British Summer Time 12 August 2021

    Michael Vaughan
    Former England captain on BBC Test Match Special

    It is silly that we don't give our players one or two games facing the red-ball to prepare for a Test series. It is about management, and you might have to say to players 'you can't play in The Hundred'.

    Maybe in hindsight Joe Root and Chris Silverwood could have organised a game against a County XI to give them a three-day game to lead into the first Test.

  11. Postpublished at 13:36 British Summer Time 12 August 2021

    During the first Test at Trent Bridge last week there was a lot of chat about a lack of red-ball preparation for the England players with white-ball cricket dominating the calendar in the four to six weeks prior.

    England have made three changes today with Haseeb Hameed, Moeen Ali and Mark Wood coming in.

    Hameed has actually played the most red-ball cricket of any England player since the New Zealand series earlier in the summer - playing two games for Notts and in a County Select XI against India. Moeen hasn't played any red-ball cricket since February, and Wood hasn't played since that New Zealand series.

  12. Postpublished at 13:33 British Summer Time 12 August 2021

    Stephan Shemilt
    BBC Sport at Lord's

    The lot of the dropped Zak Crawley is to have a net on the Nursery Ground, watched by spectators having a boozy lunch.

  13. What time is tea?published at 13:31 British Summer Time 12 August 2021

    We have (re)revised session times for you...

    • Afternoon: 13:50-16:15 BST
    • Tea: 16:15-16:35
    • Evening: 16:35-18:50 - plus 30 minutes to make up overs
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    Get Involvedpublished at 13:29 British Summer Time 12 August 2021

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    I agree with Jake. Paying £160 to eat my lunch in the dry whilst they run off during the playing time seems ludicrous.

    Anonymous

  15. Postpublished at 13:27 British Summer Time 12 August 2021

    Thanks Tim.

    We're still waiting to hear the revised playing times for the rest of the day, but we know that the afternoon session will start at 13:50 BST. It looks much better at Lord's now and the groundstaff have already moved the hover cover to the boundary.

    England will be coming up with a plan C, D and E during their lunch. The two India openers have batted with superb discipline so far.

  16. Postpublished at 13:25 British Summer Time 12 August 2021

    Time for me to go and eat my lunch - what a frustrating start to this Test with the on-off nature.

    Callum Matthews will take you through the rest of lunch and the afternoon session.

  17. Postpublished at 13:23 British Summer Time 12 August 2021

    A poor showing. Overrated, that Kohli fella.

  18. How's stat?!published at 13:22 British Summer Time 12 August 2021

    Andy Zaltzman
    Test Match Special statistician

    Virat Kohli has lost every toss in England in Test cricket.

  19. get involved

    Get Involvedpublished at 13:20 British Summer Time 12 August 2021

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    Test cricket shooting itself in the foot again. Why didn’t they just take lunch when they went off at 12.50? Twenty minutes have just been wasted by taking lunch when it’s now dry.

    Chris

  20. Postpublished at 13:18 British Summer Time 12 August 2021

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