Summary

  • England bowled out for 178 - India need 420 to win or to bat for just over a day

  • Root top-scores with 40; six wickets for Ashwin

  • England choose not to enforce follow-on but lose Burns first ball

  • Ishant takes 300th Test wicket by dismissing Lawrence lbw

  • Two wickets each for Leach and Anderson as India bowled out for 337

  • First Test, day four, Chennai

Live Reporting

Callum Matthews and Matthew Henry

  1. James Anderson is replacing Jofra Archer.

    Talk in our team chat has turned to how England will approach their innings. When they needed quick runs against West Indies in the summer they opened with Ben Stokes and Jos Buttler. That experiment didn't go too well, before Rory Burns and Joe Root combined in a big partnership to put England in a match-winning position.

    What will England do today? What would you do today? Let us know using #bbccricket or by texting 81111 (UK only).

  2. From the virtual press box

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  3. Ind 312-8

    Ishant Sharma is the new batsman - he averages 8.37 in Test cricket and has a high-score of 57.

    England will want to wrap this innings up before lunch at 06:00 GMT.

  4. wicket

    WICKET

    Nadeem c Stokes b Leach 0 (Ind 312-8)

    LeachBCCI

    Yes, Jack Leach.

    Shahbaz Nadeem definitely didn't look comfortable. It was all block, block, block, with no real intent or idea of how to score. That is always dangerous on a pitch like this, and when there is a little bit of extra bounce he can only edge, off the top of the bat, to Ben Stokes at slip.

    It has been an excellent bit of captaincy from Joe Root to turn to Leach.

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    Chris Wilson: Jack Leach is back.

  6. Ind 312-7

    Four more for Washington Sundar as he guides through the slip cordon. This is his highest score in Test now.

    Do England need to target the stumps more here? This is where leaving Stuart Broad out could hurt them. There's definite signs of slowness, and deliveries keeping low, as Sundar gets a genuine edge off Archer, but the ball bounces about two metres behind the batsman and almost bounces twice before getting to Ben Stokes at slip.

    That delivery was 86.9mph and it has got nowhere near the slips.

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    Vishal Wable: Excellent partnership. The tail now has to stand alongside Washington Sundar till lunch.

  8. Ind 308-7

    Washington Sundar does like padding up, out of the rough, outside the off stump. England used two reviews yesterday when he did, one was nowhere near, the other only just went over the top of the stumps.

    He's continued to do it this morning, but he's choosing the right balls to do it to at the moment. Neither have been anywhere near close to hitting the stumps.

    Could it get him in trouble though?

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    Jenifer Moore: Very pleased Leach has got one, plus we needed that. Thank goodness for the new ball.

  11. Drinks break

    That'll be drinks.

    That is definitely India's hour.

  12. Ind 307-7

    I say Shahbaz Nadeem only averages 14, but he does have a first-class century. He's definitely got the ability to hang around and frustrate England here.

    It feels like things are starting to happen a little bit now. One keeps pretty low, before Archer finds a little bit of away movement to beat the outside edge of Washington Sundar.

    Ugh. The klaxon is back. That is the first time we've heard it in the England bowling effort to be fair.

    It gets Archer one delivery at Shahbaz Nadeem but he doesn't execute the yorker properly - it's too full and down the leg side.

  13. Jofra Archer will continue. He'll be desperate to get at Shahbaz Nadeem.

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    Peach from the Leach!

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  15. Ind 305-7

    Shahbaz Nadeem, who averages 14.64 in first-class cricket, is the new batsman.

    India are still a massive 273 runs behind, 74 away from avoiding the follow-on.

    Can England go bang, bang, bang? And preferably bang, bang, bang, bang.

  16. wicket

    WICKET

    Ashwin c Buttler b Leach 31 (Ind 305-7)

    LeachBCCI

    Yes, he can! Massive breakthrough for England.

    Ravichandran Ashwin, looking to defend, pushes a bit hard at the ball, and there's a little bit of extra bounce and it pops up into the air and Jos Buttler sprints from behind the stumps and takes a brilliant diving catch about eight yards away from the pitch to find the breakthrough.

    Great start from Jack Leach and more excellent work from Buttler.

  17. Jack Leach replaces James Anderson.

    Can he get a little bit of extra grip and bounce with the harder ball?

  18. How's stat?!

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  19. Ind 305-6

    Jofra Archer, as you'd expect with his extra pace and height, is definitely getting more out of the surface than James Anderson.

    He gets a little bit of extra pop that forces Washington Sundar to drop his bottom hand off the bat as he looks to defend.

    Jos Buttler and Ben Stokes are clapping behind the stumps, encouraging Archer. England are desperate to break this 80-run partnership.

  20. Ind 304-6

    Catch it!

    Jofra Archer finally gets a little bit more out of the surface, and Ravichandran Ashwin, looking to turn into the leg side, gets a thick leading edge and it flies through the vacant second and third slip region.

    Encouraging for England.