Hardik Pandya is off the mark with a push for three to the longest boundary, with Stokes' throw like a tracer bullet back to the keeper.

Pant then responds with a superb back-cut to the boundary at third.

Ebony Rainford-Brent
Former England batter on Test Match Special

That was a beauty. Overton came a bit wider on the crease and angled it in. That made it harder to get the ball down to third.

England are in a very good place.

Simon Mann
BBC Test Match Special

That was the opportunity. It was not quite the game but...

Ebony Rainford-Brent
Former England batter on Test Match Special

It was a beauty of a ball - a perfect length that went above the eyeline but dipped.

Pant through the kitchen sink so hard and swung around that I wondered whether he would have got back into his ground.

Oh dear, Jos.

Pant comes down the track to Moeen and flails away. The ball zips past the edge, but also past Buttler's gloves and also past Root's right hand at slip for a bye.

I'm no keeper and I know they're not easy, but they've got to be taken.

Craig Overton follows his heroics in the deep by replacing Brydon Carse at the James Anderson End.

And Pant has clearly had enough of all this circumspection, slashing wildly at one and edging the ball down over where slip would have been.

I feel Suryakumar and Pant are chafing at the bit, but they are taking the long view by reining themselves in with three wickets down and just under 200 still needed.

Yes. This sock/Biro wormhole is clearly a nationwide problem.

That's great cricket - a superb cut by Pant is just stopped inside the boundary by the diving Craig Overton. Did he flip it back without touching the boundary sponge thingy?

Yes! *doffs cap*

He may not be in great form, but getting Virat Kohli out is not to be sniffed at.

Now then, Moeen Ali is on and Pant is at the crease. This could be lively.

In fact it is all quite calm, and Moeen's first over goes for a run a ball without any pyrotechnics.

Stephan Shemilt
BBC Sport chief cricket writer at Old Trafford

In the least surprising news of the day, I can confirm it's stupidly hot out there. What's worse is the breeze. Not cooling, but instead making you feel like you're walking around in a tumble dryer.

Here's Brydon Carse, replacing Topley. It's not the most fluent run and action but he's clearly a hit-the-deck-hard bowler that England want to take an extended look at.

He's already bowling at a decent lick - 88 miles per hour. Dr Emmett Brown would be pleased with that.

James Anderson
England bowler on Test Match Special

Ben Stokes is so keen on his fielding. He feels he can add to the team and take wickets without batting or bowling.

Reece Topley is having another day to remember, knocking the top off the India card with some top drawer players sent back to the dressing room.

Ben Stokes races around to send in a one handed pick up and throw at the stumps to get Pant scrambling for a quick single

Can I add 'all my Biro's' to that?

Andy Zaltzman
BBC Test Match Special statistician

Reece Topley has taken 9-35 in 14 overs in the last two games.