Yelps of excitement as Zak Crawley almost turns Ravichandran Ashwin to leg slip but it is wide of the man.

Two blocks follow. Two balls left before lunch.

Zak Crawley keeps the strike with a drop-and-run single into the covers.

Kuldeep Yadav has got through his over quickly enough to give us another over. It'll be Ravichandran Ashwin to bowl it too.

Yeesh. One keeps low but thankfully it is off the stumps and Zak Crawley is able to get his bat down and pick up a couple through point.

Dinesh Karthik
Former India wicketkeeper on the BBC Test Match Special podcast

Kuldeep Yadav is a bowler who has no doubt grown in stature in white-ball cricket and he is arguably on the best wrist spinners in the world at the moment.

With wrist spin comes the uncertainty with length and that is something that Kuldeep has worked on, alongside the speed that he bowls at.

Normally in white-ball cricket the quicker he bowls the more it helps him so it will be interesting to see how he adapts that because of Test cricket and playing on a pitch that will aid spin. That will be the challenge for him. It has been a while since he played a Test so he will be nervous as well.

A change of pace already.

Kuldeep Yadav is coming on.

The left-arm wrist spinner last played a Test in December 2022.

Four more.

Mukesh Kumar went round the wicket to Ben Duckett but there's still some width and the opener finds the gap in the covers again.

England are racing along at seven an over.

Width this time from Mukesh Kumar and Ben Duckett crashes the cut to the fence.

Mukesh's pace is comfortable for England and there's no movement for him at the moment so it is relatively easy pickings.

Too full from Mukesh Kumar and Ben Duckett drills him to the cover boundary.

Zak Crawley moves into double figures by working a couple off his hips through square leg.

Probably time for two more overs before the interval.

Four more for Zak Crawley.

It is edgy, but it is played with soft hands by the England openers and finds the gap between the slips and point.

Stephan Shemilt
BBC Sport chief cricket writer in Visakhapatnam

It's Zak Crawley's birthday today. He's 26. He shares it with Warwick Davis and Isla Fisher. Looking through the list, Crawley might just be the most successful cricketer ever born on 3 February.

Zak Crawley keeps the strike with a back-foot punch into the covers for a single.

Two overs safely ticked off for England. Lunch is around 13 minutes away.

Lovely shot.

Mukesh Kumar strays onto the pads of Zak Crawley and the tall right-hander whips it away to the mid-wicket fence.

You can't bowl there to him.

Eeeek!

A HUGE slice of fortune for Ben Duckett as an inside leg misses leg stump by a matter of centimetres.

Solid strike-rate of 400 for the England opener, though.

Double pace to start for India. Mukesh Kumar, playing in his fourth Test, will share the new ball.

I've just found out Zak Crawley is 26 today too. A birthday century? Go on then.

He's happy to leave four of the first five balls, before having a quite frankly disgusting swipe at the final ball.

Stop that, Zak.

Two wide balls to start from Jasprit Bumrah and Zak Crawley is happy to watch them go by.

Jasprit Bumrah, who was brilliant in the first Test, has the new ball in hand.

Let's go.

England openers Zak Crawley and Ben Duckett are making their way out to the middle.

They've got a tricky period of just over 20 minutes to negotiate until lunch now.

It's an opportunity for India to cause some damage.

Stephan Shemilt
BBC Sport chief cricket writer in Visakhapatnam

India lost their last seven wickets for 147. That might not sound too dramatic, but in these conditions it a serious effort from England. Seven India batters were out for between 14 and 34. Wasteful. England have a chance. They must take it, because batting last promises to be difficult.