Summary

  • England slip to 55-3 - target 482

  • Sibley 3, Burns 25, Leach 0

  • Lawrence counter-attacks for 19*

  • India 286: Ashwin 106, Kohli 62

  • Ashwin dropped on 28, 56 & 71

  • Moeen 4-98, Leach 4-100

  • Second Test, Chennai, day three

  • England lead 1-0 in four-Test series

Live Reporting

Matthew Henry and Stephan Shemilt

  1. At the very least this is a confidence booster for England's spinners going forward. The lead is 281.

  2. wicket

    WICKET

    Rahane c Pope b Moeen 10 (Ind 86-5)

    Miles better from Moeen. When you get it in a decent area you have every chance on this pitch.

    Moeen tosses the ball up and Rahane, lunging forward, inside edges one to short leg off the pad.

    England have taken four wickets in 50 minutes.

    Ollie PopeBCCI

  3. Ind 86-4

    Lead by 281

    Stunning stuff from the Magic Man.

    He is the first England wicketkeeper since Alan Knott in 1968 to take three stumpings in a men's Test. No male England keeper has ever taken four.

  4. The Art of Wicketkeeping, by Ben Foakes.

    Ben Foakes and Rohit SharmaBCCI
    Ben Foakes and Rishabh PantBCCI
    Rishabh PantBCCI

  5. Ind 82-4

    Lead by 277

    They may as well be playing on corrugated roof. Moeen tosses the ball up and it rags square, Rahane floundering.

    Moeen follows that with a full toss and a long hop. Rahane hits both for four. Not good from England's offie.

  6. Ind 74-4

    Lead by 269

    I'm sure we can help Zack.

    It's all-action cricket in Chennai. Rahane gets a bottom edge on a cut and then Kohli drives in the air agonisingly out of the reach of a diving Rory Burns.

    India seem to have decided they may as well have a swing.

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    I'm currently on a history essay if people are better at that? It's on Martin Luther's reformation so any experts let me know...

    Zack in London

  8. Ind 69-4

    Lead by 264

    Kohli tickles one down to fine leg for four. The crowd are up for the first time today. Somehow the umpires give it as leg byes despite it coming off the middle of the bat.

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  10. England's spinners are bowling beautifully.

  11. Ind 65-4

    "Caaatch". Almost another. Rahane slices a cut and the ball loops towards backward point. Olly Stone is the fielder and he may just misjudge it. The ball dies on him and ends up dropping a yard short.

  12. 11 runs and three wickets this morning in just over half an hour.

    India lead by 260. Ajinkya Rahane is the new man.

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    WICKET

    Pant st Foakes b Leach 8 (Ind 65-4)

    He's magic, you know...

    Ben Foakes has done it again. This is an even better stumping with the ball zipping through Pant as he charges down the pitch. Outrageous from the Surrey keeper, who collects one that turns from outside off to well past leg stump and completes the job with style. Pant even drops his bat as he flounders to make his ground.

    Ben Foakes and Rishabh PantBCCI

  14. I've no idea. Can anyone help Louis?

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    The question was on whether there can be absolute standard of legislative effectiveness independent of political cultures and state conventions... and nope I don't know what that means either.

    Louis in London

  16. Ind 61-3

    Lead by 256

    Kohli gets off his pair to the loudest cheer of the day so far. We've heard back from Louis writing his politics essay and I'm lost already...

  17. Adam Mountford
    BBC Test Match Special producer

    On England’s last red-ball tour to India in 2016 the final Test was played at the MA Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai.

    It was a rather different pitch back then - 1,443 runs were scored in the game as Karun Nair flayed the England attack with an unbeaten triple hundred.

    The England captain was Alastair Cook, who made a battling 49 in the second innings. Here he is being grilled by Aggers before the game with Henry Moeran filming.

    Later, Alastair will be grilled again by Aggers and Henry as part of The Cricket Social team bringing you discussion and analysis from 06.30 GMT.

    Henry Moeran, Jonathan Agnew and Alastair CookBBC Sport

  18. Ind 58-3

    Kohlo 0, Pant 3

    Leach rips another beyond Kohli's edge. Let's not get ahead of ourselves. Chasing 300 on this would be like chasing 600.

    I'll repeat what I said yesterday on Foakes v Buttler. Only Root has scored more runs than Buttler in Tests since last May. He has to play so you'd have to find another way of getting Foakes in.

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    Andy: Fantastic by Foakes. Birthday boy has started well. Surely he has to be a regular in the side.

    Ritik Goel: Well Ben Foakes looks a fine keeper. Such good skill on this pitch. Has missed nothing so far.

  20. Ind 58-3

    Lead by 253

    That stumping was poetry in motion. Does Foakes turn less than half chances into wickets? So often we say "the batter has just got his boot back in time" but is Foakes so quick he gets stumpings other keepers wouldn't in that scenario? It's hard to say, I guess.

    Rishabh Pant top-edges a full toss and almost gets caught.