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. Double spin for England with Dom Bess replacing James Anderson.

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    I love it when England just carry on batting and it annoys all the England fans who obviously know better and all the England pundits who should know better... we invariably win...

    Martyn, Surrey

  3. Ind 34-1

    Target 420

    Back-to-back maidens for England.

    They are keeping it tight with less than 10 minutes till close on day four. Can they force a mistake?

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    Michael Champion: Seems like India are going to give this a go. Cracking along at 5 an over. Fair play for an 'all guns blazing' attitude.

  5. Ind 34-1

    Target 420

    England definitely think they can get Shubman Gill caught on the leg side, just turning the ball away. It was an area that Australia targeted during their series too.

    That is the challenge for Gill - once someone works out a possible weakness in Test cricket, the rest of the world target it too.

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    Ben Simons: Don’t know why we’ve got men out on the boundary saving 1 in the first 10 overs of the innings with 380+ runs to play with. Surround the bat.

  7. Phil Tufnell
    Former England spinner on the Cricket Social

    I've just heard there's a 1% chance of rain tomorrow.

  8. Ind 34-1

    Target 420

    Jack Leach has been much better today, both this morning in helping to wrap up the India innings and in this little spell. He's pretty consistent in his line and length which is going to be key to building that pressure.

    Virat Kohli is laughing and joking in the changing room. He's padded up, ready to come in next.

  9. Henry Moeran
    The Cricket Social

    Incredible scenes in the TMS box at The Oval - Abhishek has just pulled out an app and has asked it to warm his car! Daniel Norcross, on the other hand, has moss growing on his car.

  10. Michael Vaughan
    Former England captain on The Cricket Social

    Pujara can be a pest, he is the one that I look at and I think - they need to get him.

  11. Ind 31-1

    Target 420

    Oh! Shubman Gill also flicks Anderson's first ball to Ollie Pope, round the corner, but because he times the ball so well it flies past Pope and away for a single.

    There are 19 minutes left. Can England pick up another scalp?

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    Andy Zaltzman
    Test Match Special statistician on the Cricket Social

    That's the first time Rohit Sharma has been bowled out by a spinner in his last 23 Test matches. The last time was by Rangana Herath in August 2015.

  13. Phil Tufnell
    Former England spinner on the Cricket Social

    It's almost like you can bowl badly on this pitch and get wickets.

  14. James Anderson is going to replace Jofra Archer.

  15. 'Can't see how England don't win'

    Michael Vaughan
    Former England captain on The Cricket Social

    England would have to bowl badly not to win on this pitch - it's doing all sort, for both the seamers and spinners. I can't see how England don't win on this pitch.

  16. Ind 29-1

    Target 420

    Chris Silverwood enjoyed that wicket in the changing room too. There's a huge fist pump and a beaming smile on his face.

    Cheteshwar Pujara gets off the mark with a late cut through four.

  17. Cheteshwar Pujara is the new batsman.

    I'm glad to see he hasn't asked for a nightwatchman.

  18. Michael Vaughan
    Former England captain on The Cricket Social

    Beautiful! A great delivery.

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    Rohit b Leach 12 (Ind 25-1)

    LeachBCCI

    That is a BEAUTY!

    Jack Leach lands one on middle stump, there's a puff of dust, and it spins past Rohit Sharma's bat, who is playing the wrong line, and crashes into off stump.

    "Leachyyyyy" shouts Jos Buttler.

    That is exactly the start England will have wanted.

  20. Ind 25-0

    Target 420

    Rohit Sharma pulls the final ball to fine leg for a single.

    England haven't created a chance in the first five overs and they are very, very quiet in the field. For a side that is, at least in theory, in the ascendancy they are lacking.