Summary

  • Bairstow's 124 helps England level series

  • Stokes hits brutal 99 off 52 balls - all-rounder went from 50 to 99 in 12 balls

  • England openers share quickfire 110 for first wicket

  • India put on 126 runs in last 10 overs to post 336-6

  • Rahul's classy 108 underpins India's total

  • Pant, who overturns two decisions via DRS, hits thrilling 77 off 40 balls

Live Reporting

Matthew Henry and Mike Peter

  1. A switch of Currans. It's over to Sam...

  2. Eng 257-3

    Watch out if you're within a mile of this ground in Pune in the next 20 minutes, I reckon. It could be raining cricket balls.

    Pant is flying and Rahul has 99. England could be chasing 350.

  3. 6 runs

    Ind 255-3

    Full and wide from Stokes and nailed over mid-off! Where do you bowl to Rishabh Pant?

  4. Ind 248-3

    Pant is back on strike. Anything could happen.

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    Sorry, England Plan A is not working and they don’t have a Plan B. Sadly both Currans are just dessert trolleys against this Indian batting line-up.

    JF, London Colney

  6. Ind 247-3

    Ben Stokes is continuing. I can't remember him bowling at the death for a long time but with England's attack understrength he's taking on the role.

    Rahul is on 97.

  7. 50 runs

    50 for Pant

    Pant swings again... It's edgy but another four, this time past fine leg.

    He goes to 50 from just 28 balls.

    That Tom Curran over cost 22.

  8. 6 runs

    Ind 237-3

    Two months on and England still don't know how to bowl to Rishabh Pant.

    In the slot on leg stump probably isn't it.

  9. Not out

    Still no wicket for Tom Curran in.

  10. Hmmm. It looks like forearm, onto helmet and into Jos Buttler's gloves...

  11. India review

    Rishabh Pant is reviewing again. It looked like a simple gloved catch but he's convinced.

  12. Simon Mann
    BBC Test Match Special commentator

    I feel like I’ve seen this game somewhere before.

  13. Ind 235-3

    England are getting hit all over the shop at the end of the innings again. Rahul goes to 96 with a four behind square on the leg side.

    Back-to-back boundaries.

  14. 6 runs

    Ind 231-3

    This is the shot of the day.

    KL Rahul hits a textbook lofted drive over extra over.

    It was there to be hit from Curran but still. He's into the 90s.

  15. Ind 225-3

    Rahul 86, Pant 40

    India are without Bumrah and Shami. They'll get better too.

    Stokes gets away with a ball that looked suspiciously leg side to me at the end of his over.

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    I have been an England fan since 2005, this is probably the best all-round, all-format side I have seen England play in that time.

    Graham Rees, Stoke-on-Trent

  17. Ind 223-3

    And now four down the ground to India's wicketkeeper batsman.

  18. 6 runs

    Ind 217-3

    It's clear Pant is going to charge though...

    Ben Stokes is back in the attack and is dispatched over the leg side.

  19. Simon Mann
    BBC Test Match Special commentator

    Huge anomaly in the laws there in an utterly bizarre incident. Pant reverse sweeps Tom Curran for four. He’s given out lbw. But it’s a dot ball. Cricket - the perfectly logical sport.

  20. Not out - Ind 210-3

    Incredible. Pant has played a reverse paddle but hit the ball through his own legs off the back of the bat. Remarkable.

    It went for four to fine leg but it seems was called a dead ball because of the 'out' decision. Confusion all round.