Summary

  • Anderson dismisses Gill in first over of India's reply

  • Stokes the only batsman to pass 50 as England bowled out for 205

  • Returning Lawrence makes 46 batting at seven

  • Axar Patel takes 4-68; Ashwin 3-47

  1. Postpublished at 03:54 Greenwich Mean Time 4 March 2021

    Fourth over: Sri Lanka's Akila Dananjaya takes a hat-trick.

    Sixth over: Akila Dananjaya is hit for six sixes by Kieron Pollard.

    Cricket, there.

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    (West Indies won this astonishingly fun match against Sri Lanka by four wickets)

  2. Postpublished at 03:51 Greenwich Mean Time 4 March 2021

    I quite like this team. Very last week of school vibes about it. England are just chucking everything at the wall to see what sticks.

  3. get involved

    Get Involvedpublished at 03:49 Greenwich Mean Time 4 March 2021

    #bbccricket

    Charlie: Are we actually lining up with SEVEN out and out batsmen? Our bowlers could be in for some torture over the next few days.

  4. Teamspublished at 03:45 Greenwich Mean Time 4 March 2021

    England: Zak Crawley, Dom Sibley, Jonny Bairstow, Joe Root (capt), Ben Stokes, Ollie Pope, Dan Lawrence, Ben Foakes (wk), Dom Bess, Jack Leach, James Anderson.

    India: Rohit Sharma, Shubman Gill, Cheteshwar Pujara, Virat Kohli (capt), Ajinkya Rahane, Rishabh Pant (wk), R Ashwin, Washington Sundar, Axar Patel, Mohammed Siraj, Ishant Sharma.

    Umpires: Nitin Menon, Virender Sharma; TV umpire: Anil Chaudhary; Match referee: Javagal Srinath.

  5. Postpublished at 03:43 Greenwich Mean Time 4 March 2021

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  6. Postpublished at 03:39 Greenwich Mean Time 4 March 2021

    Just the one change for India, with Mohammed Siraj replacing Jasprit Bumrah.

  7. Postpublished at 03:36 Greenwich Mean Time 4 March 2021

    As expected, Dom Bess returns to the England team to pair back up with Jack Leach.

    He's joined by Dan Lawrence, who comes back in to beef up the batting. Stuart Broad and Jofra Archer are the two players to make way.

  8. England win toss & batpublished at 03:34 Greenwich Mean Time 4 March 2021
    Breaking

    The toss goes Joe Root's way - and there's two changes to tell you about...

  9. Postpublished at 03:33 Greenwich Mean Time 4 March 2021

    Morning!

    It's very simple - England need to win this Test to draw the series, keep their World Test Championship hopes alive and stop a lot of generally quite dull talk about the state of pitches in this series.

  10. Postpublished at 03:31 Greenwich Mean Time 4 March 2021

    Early, innit?