Summary

  • England bowled out for 122 to lose third Test in Rajkot by 434 runs

  • India take 2-1 lead in series with two Tests to play

  • Jadeja claims 5-41, Kuldeep takes two, Bumrah and returning Ashwin one each

  • Jaiswal makes brilliant double ton including 12 sixes - joint most in Test knock

  • India 430-4 dec: Jaiswal 214*, Gill 91, Sarfaraz 68*

  • Fourth Test in Ranchi begins on Friday

  1. Postpublished at 07:57 Greenwich Mean Time 18 February

    So if England are going to chase it, they'd have to bat more than four sessions at around 4.3 runs per over.

    How will they play it? I think I know.

  2. get involved

    Get Involvedpublished at 07:56 Greenwich Mean Time 18 February

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    If England decide they're chasing this, it's going to be potential utter humiliation.

    Ade

    We’ve got time to do this lads!

    Al, Leeds

  3. Postpublished at 07:55 Greenwich Mean Time 18 February

    For what it's worth, England need 557 to win or they have to bat out the rest of today and all of tomorrow, around 130 overs, for a draw.

    Ben Stokes has said he does not play for draws...

  4. Postpublished at 07:53 Greenwich Mean Time 18 February

    Sarfaraz Khan insists Yashasvi Jaiswal walks off on his own to take the applause.

    The youngster beams as he takes his helmet off.

    He finishes with 214 from 236 balls with 12 sixes, the joint-most in a Test innings.

  5. Declaration - India 430-4published at 98 overs

    Lead by 556

    Rohit waves.

    That's it. England's bowlers have been put out of their misery.

  6. Postpublished at 07:50 Greenwich Mean Time 18 February

    Jonathan Agnew
    BBC cricket correspondent

    In the course of his bizarre interview yesterday, Duckett said that India can score as many as they want. Not sure he had this in mind.

  7. 6 runs

    Ind 429-4published at 97.4 overs

    Six more!

  8. Ind 423-4published at 97.3 overs

    Now Sarfaraz smashes one through the covers for four.

  9. Postpublished at 07:49 Greenwich Mean Time 18 February

    Stephan Shemilt
    BBC Sport chief cricket writer in Rajkot

    Siraj is loosening up on the boundary. It's like a shark circling a lifeboat.

  10. 6 runs

    Ind 419-4published at 97.2 overs

    Thwack.

    Sarfaraz Khan on the slog-sweep.

    This is brutal.

  11. Postpublished at 07:48 Greenwich Mean Time 18 February

    Rehan continues...

  12. Postpublished at 07:46 Greenwich Mean Time 18 February

    What's going on?!

    In the drinks break, Jaiswal and Sarfaraz start to walk off as if India have declared until they are shooed away by Rohit from the balcony.

    On we go.

  13. Postpublished at 07:45 Greenwich Mean Time 18 February

    Michael Vaughan
    Former England captain

    Root brings up a 100. All England fans would hope it would be with the bat...

  14. drinks break

    Drinks - Ind 412-4published at 97 overs

    Lead by 538

    Not this time.

    And now, with cricket being cricket and the declaration coming, the players take a drink.

  15. Postpublished at 07:43 Greenwich Mean Time 18 February

    Stephan Shemilt
    BBC Sport chief cricket writer in Rajkot

    Jaiswal must be the first man to get two separate hundreds in the same innings.

  16. Postpublished at 07:43 Greenwich Mean Time 18 February

    The India players are going through their warm-ups in the dressing room in their playing hit.

    He doesn't have long...

  17. 6 runs

    Ind 411-4published at 96.4 overs

    And now back-to-back sixes to equal the record for the most sixes in a Test innings.

    Can he break it? Does he know?

  18. 200 runs

    200 for Yashasvi Jaiswalpublished at 96.1 overs

    The future is here. Yashasvi Jaiswal is a superstar.

    He goes to 200 for the second Test in a row, takes off his helmet and stands with his arms wide in what is now his trademark celebration.

  19. Ind 397-4published at 96 overs

    Rohit is still in his orange training kit on the balcony but is it a matter of one more run for Jaiswal and then declare?

    The 22-year-old needs one for his second double century in the series.

  20. 50 runs

    50 for Sarfaraz Khanpublished at 95.4 overs

    They're all friends now...

    Yashasvi Jaiswal gives Sarfaraz Khan a hug in the middle of the pitch as the right-hander reaches his second fifty in his debut Test.