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

  1. Ind 246-9published at 78.3 overs

    I hope someone has told Jack Leach that one. He should get it painted on the outside of his house, never mind framed on his bedroom wall. Great company.

    Leach has three more balls at Siraj in the over. He needs this last wicket for five.

  2. How's stat?!published at 09:30 Greenwich Mean Time 15 February 2021

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  3. Ind 246-9published at 78 overs

    Ashwin 86, Siraj 0

    I'm not even sure that'd save them. Ashwin sweeps again. "Catch" is the cry but it doesn't carry to Stuart Broad. He can't stop the four either. They'll hear the crowd in Bangalore if Ashwin gets to his hundred.

  4. get involved

    Get Involvedpublished at 09:26 Greenwich Mean Time 15 February 2021

    Text 81111

    England's best chance of saving this match is if Ashwin gets a double hundred and is too tired to bowl.

    From Sam in Leeds

  5. Ind 242-9published at 77 overs

    Lead by 436

    Ashwin is going to have to really get a wriggle on if he wants that hundred. Mohammed Siraj doesn't hang around. Ashwin goes back, clubbing Leach through the leg side. It's four. He has 82.

  6. Postpublished at 09:24 Greenwich Mean Time 15 February 2021

    Simon Mann
    BBC Test Match Special commentator on The Cricket Social

    England are nearly through this batting line-up, but then the real trial begins.

  7. wicket

    WICKETpublished at 76.4 overs

    Ishant c Stone b Leach 7 (Ind 237-9)

    Someone needs to have a word with Ishant Sharma and tell him not to sweep. For the second time in the match he falls to the stroke.

    Olly Stone runs around to cling on to a skier running round from backward square leg. Good catch. England are almost there. If that's a good thing.

  8. Postpublished at 09:22 Greenwich Mean Time 15 February 2021

    Funnily enough it's forecast to rain in Chennai on Friday. That's too late for England.

  9. get involved

    Get Involvedpublished at 09:21 Greenwich Mean Time 15 February 2021

    Text 81111

    What's the weather forecast for Chennai over the next few days? Rain?

    James, Manchester

  10. Postpublished at 09:21 Greenwich Mean Time 15 February 2021

    Broad has cleverly got himself out of the attack. Jack Leach is back for a 29th over.

  11. Ind 236-8published at 76 overs

    Surely he could have been allowed to get to his fifty. The body wasn't going anywhere.

    In Chennai, England want this game to be stopped. Even Ishant Sharma is slogging. Virat Kohli is whooping and celebrating in the dressing room as India's number 10 adds four more to the total.

  12. get involved

    When strange things stopped playpublished at 09:14 Greenwich Mean Time 15 February 2021

    Text 81111

    Playing in one of my first ever men's games in Westbury-on-Severn, our game was halted when their opener, who was going along nicely on 40 not out, retired. He happened to be an undertaker and had got a call to pick up a body!

    Dan, Cheltenham

  13. Ind 230-8published at 75 overs

    Lead by 424

    Ashwin plants Broad back over his head. The ball bounces once before going over the rope. Batting looks do-able but you just know it'll all change once it's England's turn.

  14. Ind 224-8published at 74.1 overs

    Stuart Broad has been given the equivalent of the early morning, graveyard shift. Not nice overs, these.

  15. Postpublished at 09:09 Greenwich Mean Time 15 February 2021

    Sir Alastair Cook
    Former England captain on The Cricket Social

    Ashwin has hit it which didn't make it any easier. Foakes is in the position where 85-90% of the balls would go. It looks terrible on TV, like a really easy stumping chance missed, but it's not.

  16. Ind 224-8published at 74 overs

    Lead by 419

    It looks like Ashwin is going to have a swing in an attempt to get to his hundred. Not put off by the previous miss, he charges down the pitch again. This time he chips two.

  17. Postpublished at 09:07 Greenwich Mean Time 15 February 2021

    Simon Mann
    BBC Test Match Special commentator on The Cricket Social

    It was a strange one. He went to his left and like a goalkeeper realising the ball was going the other way, dived and missed it. That feels like a stumping that should have taken.

  18. dropped catch

    Missed stumping - Ind 223-8published at 73.5 overs

    Oh he's missed one. After all the praise we have quite rightly given Ben Foakes today, he has missed a relatively straightforward stumping. Ashwin would have been miles out. It did keep low.

  19. Ind 223-8published at 73.2 overs

    India are batting on after tea...

  20. Postpublished at 09:05 Greenwich Mean Time 15 February 2021

    My cousin has just bought one of the flats overlooking the ground at Bristol. I'm already eyeing a visit, having not been since he moved to the city. I am sure he won't join the dots.