Summary

  • Pant hits 91 off 88 balls after India fall to 73-4

  • Pujara out for 73 after ball loops off short leg's back and into hands of mid-wicket

  • Bess has Kohli caught at bat pad; Rahane falls to superb Root catch

  • Archer removes Rohit & Gill with new ball

  • First Test, day three, Chennai

Live Reporting

Callum Matthews and Matthew Henry

  1. Jack Leach continues...

  2. Ind 143-4

    Trail by 435

    Is there a cricketer in world cricket who is more fun than Rishabh Pant?

  3. Ind 143-4

    I hope Mariana who tweeted earlier to say she was following cricket for the first time doesn't expect this all the time.

    Pant attacks Bess now. He clobbers four through the covers.

  4. 'I'd give England 10/10'

    Michael Vaughan
    Former England captain on the Cricket Social

    I think England have been magnificent. Leach has taken a bit of hammering from Pant but you won't be too concerned by that. If he continues batting that way, there will be opportunities created.

    Jimmy Anderson has been Jimmy Anderson, dot balls and holding an end.

    Jofra Archer has been magnificent, that's what we want to see. Short, sharp bursts.

    Over the last two and a half days, I'd give England 10/10. Batting, bowling and fielding has been great.

  5. Ind 139-4

    Need 240 more to avoid the follow-on

    Pujara takes up the run scoring off Leach. He eases two twos before a classic clip for four.

    Leach has figures of 0-49 from five overs. Ouch.

  6. Swinging like a rusty gate/chucking the kitchen sink etc...

    PantBCCI

  7. Daniel Norcross
    BBC Test Match Special commentator on the Cricket Social

    Pujara may need to change his shirt at tea, he's covered in the red dust of Chennai.

  8. Ind 131-4

    Pujara is now covered in dust after diving for his ground. Bess is too after a couple of efforts in the field.

    I wonder who takes on the cleaning bill.

  9. Not out

    Pujara is well in. He survives.

    Good work from Ollie Pope at short leg though.

  10. It's not a catch. The ball has been hit into the ground.

    Now for the run-out...

  11. Umpire review

    England are appealing for a catch at short leg via the boot and also a run-out. We're going to check upstairs. It's Pujara in danger. I wouldn't say England were that confident.

  12. Ind 129-4

    Pujara 39, Pant 43

    PantBCCI

    That last six saw Pant overtake Pujara. He has faced 30 balls and Pujara 95.

    There are 20 minutes to go until tea.

  13. Get Involved

    #bbccricket

    Andy K: How unorthodox is Pant's batting? There's literally no front foot movement on any shot - bowl it at his feet!

  14. 6 runs

    Ind 126-4

    Pant has done it again.

    Once more he has only cleared the boundary rope by a matter of a couple of metres but it's six. Leach is getting a pasting but he's in the game.

  15. Get Involved

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    Tom McNeil: Rishabt Pant, 2021 >> Nathan Astle, 2002

  16. Ind 120-4

    Pujara 38, Pant 35

    Pant is much more circumspect against Bess for whom the foot holes aren't as big an advantage as they are for Leach.

  17. Abhishek Jhunjhunwala
    Former IPL batsman on The Cricket Social

    I wouldn't want to be number seven for India if Pant is batting at number six. Every ball I'd be sitting up in my chair and then sitting back again when it just clears the boundary rope.

  18. Ind 119-4

    Trail by 459

    This is all very entertaining from Pant but he's going to have to do it for a long time if he's going to get India back into the match.

    England will know it only takes one miscue.

  19. 6 runs

    Ind 114-3

    Rishabh Pant again...

  20. Get Involved

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    Charlie Cox: Not sure why Dom Bess was so excited to get Virat Kohli out. It's not like it was Joe Root or someone.