How's stat?!published at 13:59 BST 3 July 2022
Andy Zaltzman
BBC Test Match Special statistician
Number five batters are averaging 94 this summer and have scored six centuries in four Tests - Daryl Mitchell, Jonny Bairstow and Rishabh Pant.
Summary
India close on 125-3, leading by 257 runs
Root takes rebound catch to dismiss Kohli (20) off Stokes
Vihari (11) caught third slip off Broad, Anderson has Gill caught for duck in first over
Tourists batting with first-innings lead of 132 after dismissing England for 284
Bairstow hits counter-attacking 106 - his third century in as many Tests
Stokes, who was dropped twice, brilliantly caught by Bumrah for frantic 25 in morning session
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Michael Fletcher: If you’d asked me five Tests ago I’d have said Jonny Bairstow was an overrated player who’s had too many chances. Never been happier to discover I don’t know what I’m talking about!
Eng 236-6published at 51 overs
Another fine over from Bumrah, just a leg bye from it.
The fast bowler very nearly gets a Billings with a yorker last ball. The England man just manages to get the bottom of the bat to it and that is enough to send it bouncing over the top of the stumps.
Prakash is going to get his wish, Jadeja is readying himself to bowl the next over.
Postpublished at 13:54 BST 3 July 2022
Prakash Wakankar
BBC Test Match SpecialI am very surprised we haven't seen Ravindra Jadeja yet.
Postpublished at 13:53 BST 3 July 2022
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Andy Zaltzman
BBC Test Match Special statisticianThat's the sixth no-ball from Thakur.
Eng 235-6published at 50 overs
Bairstow 102, Billings 23
We eventually get to the end of the Thakur over after three no-balls from the India seamer. Both sides have had issues with overstepping in this match.
Postpublished at 13:50 BST 3 July 2022
Ebony Rainford-Brent
Former England batter on BBC Test Match SpecialThat's a sign of pressure. India were tying Billings down a bit, and he was just trying to force a shot to rotate the strike and release it.
Eng 231-6published at 49.3 overs
Chance... but Billings gets lucky. It's a leading edge from the England wicket-keeper as he tries to clip Thakur through the legside. The ball looks to be looping to Bumrah at mid-on but keeps going and just gets over the head of the stand-in India skipper.
How's stat?!published at 13:48 BST 3 July 2022
Andy Zaltzman
BBC Test Match Special statistician
Image source, Getty ImagesThat is Jonny Bairstow's 11th Test hundred. He had six at the end of 2021.
He's scored five hundreds in nine matches and in all of them he's come to the crease with less than 60 runs on the board and his side three or four wickets down.
Postpublished at 13:48 BST 3 July 2022
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Bumrah does eventually find the edge but it's played with soft hands by Billings and the ball drops short of second slip. Very good over, though. A maiden.
Eng 227-6published at 48.3 overs
Trail by 189
Bairstow might be making it all look very easy but Bumrah is giving Billings a real working over, beating the outside edge by a whisker twice in the first three balls of his latest.
Postpublished at 13:44 BST 3 July 2022
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Ebony Rainford-Brent
Former England batter on BBC Test Match SpecialHe certainly enjoyed that one! What an entertaining innings. It's hard not to feel emotion for him.
He's bringing this new style to life for England.
Postpublished at 13:42 BST 3 July 2022
Jonathan Agnew
BBC cricket correspondent on Test Match SpecialWhat a summer he is having! Jadeja of all people misfielded on the boundary but that doesn't matter.
He looks to the heavens as he always does. A brilliant innings, the form of his life.
100 for Jonny Bairstowpublished at 48 overs
Eng 227-6
He's done it again! Three hundreds in as many Tests for the England batter and it's been another fabulous knock. He gets there with another four, albeit a fortuitous one as Ravindra Jadeja slips and lets the ball through on the point boundary.
11 Test hundreds in total now for Bairstow - five of them this year - and, remarkably, this 119-ball effort is his slowest ton of the summer.
Postpublished at 13:39 BST 3 July 2022
Jonathan Agnew
BBC cricket correspondent on Test Match SpecialCome on, Sam, give Jonny the strike. Let's hear Edgbaston erupt!
Eng 217-6published at 47.1 overs
Worked legside for two by Billings.
England have avoided the follow-on. It wasn't always guaranteed in this innings.