Rohit 161, Rahane 67, Pant 33*
India slip from 248-3 to 284-6
Rohit & Rahane add 162 from 86-3
Five wickets fall to spin on dusty pitch
Gill 0, Pujara 21, Kohli 0
Dusty pitch offering turn on first day
Second Test, Chennai; India won toss
England lead 1-0 in four-Test series
Any more suggestions as footballers as cricketers will be greatly received. Jordan Henderson would absolutely be Paul Collingwood.
Rohit has just plonked Stokes for six over the leg side and follows it with another four. Rohit means business.
You may have seen Italian football legend Christian Vieri saying he's a big cricket fan this week. He says he is an opening batsman in the Chris Gayle mould.
I reckon if Dennis Bergkamp was a cricketer he'd be Rohit. All class.
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Rohit 29, Pujara 7
It's a battle of two contrasting styles at the crease. Rohit is all elegance and is timing the ball very nicely. Pujara is awkward, slightly ugly. He creeps onto the front foot like he needs a bit of oil.
Ben Stokes is on ending an impressive opening burst from Olly Stone. Straight away Stokes is driven to the boundary by Rohit. Unsurprisingly the crowd, which continues to grow in size, loves it.
Pujara plods onto the front foot and despite a bit of excitement from Ben Foakes behind the stumps the ball is defended with ease.
There's turn already but not masses. Yet.
It's a really, really bad review in fact. The ball hardly turned and would have gone a long way down leg.
That may be the first thing Root has done wrong all winter.
The England players are already walking away from their huddle. This is not a great review I don't think.
Hmmm. England are going for an early review. It's lbw to Rohit. I'm not sure it turned enough.
There's a minor explosion from the pitch when Leach bowls his first ball. It looks a good toss to have won.
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Ra Na: Re Paddy, Pujara reminds of wrestler Kamala from the old WWF days where he got stronger with every beating.
It's time for some spin. I think there'll be a lot of it today. Jack Leach, who dismissed both of these batsmen during the second innings of the first Test, replaces Broad.
Rohit 23, Pujara 6
There are already puffs of dust when the seamers hurls the ball into the pitch. It could be really fun batting on this later in the match.
Rohit is in a hurry. Stone loses his line for the first time and the right-hander cuts him hard for four. He has 23 from 24 balls.
Rohit 17, Pujara 5
Broad appeals for an lbw - what's new!? - but Rohit got a big inside edge. England's bandana wearing seamer has conceded 17 runs this morning and Stone just the one.
Make that 21. Rohit plays a strange chip over the top of mid-on that goes for four. He didn't mean to do that, I don't think.
More good stuff from Stone, who gets a pat on the back from Root at the end of the over. He nudged 91mph there.
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Paddy Sidwell: Has Pujara ever considered NOT getting hit 5 times every innings?
After a bit of treatment Pujara is good to continue.
Olly Stone has been really good so far. He has been more threatening than Broad. Now he has hit Cheteshwar Pujara on the thumb. On comes the physio.
Rohit 12, Pujara 4
You've messed up there, Mr Beerbelli. I'm going to guess that isn't your real name.
Rohit almost plays onto his stumps from Broad and then decides he's much better driving than leaving. Lovely stuff down the ground from the best-looking batsman in the world.
Broad is getting steadily redder.
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Maximo Beerbelli: Managed to get myself up for the Test, nipped to the toilet and managed to miss the first wicket fall It's going to be one of those days, isn't it?