Key events
12th over: England 56-3 (Root 27, Curran 2) Gill brings back Bumrah, with just Buttler and Jacks to come before we hit the bowlers. No chances taken – just two singles from the over.
Meanwhile Ali Martin has spotted this story – that Sunday’s ODI could be Rohit Sharma’s last.
11th over: England 54-3 (Root 26, Curran 1) Root tries another upper cut, but Gurnoor beats him for height, he’s not proving much of a relief. Root gets down the other end in time to watch Brook empty the contents of his pockets while prone on his backside. A short but very entertaining cameo.
WICKET! Brook c Ishan b Gurnoor 16 (England 53-3)
Brook falls over for one last time, trying to scoop a 91mph ball, loses balance, ends up in a puddle of pads on his back while Ishan takes the prize.
10th over: England 51-2 (Root 25, Brook 16) Root is all gymnastics here, arches backwards, a nasty ball from Prasidh follows him, but he ramps four. Another four, another arched back, this time from a bottom edge.
9th over: England 42-2 (Root 16, Brook 16) Relief for England as Bumrah is put back on the shelf after four overs, 1-17. The tall figure of Gurnoor Brar is his replacement. Brook goes for a ramp second ball and like a man whose overcoat is caught in an escalator ends up flat on his back. The physio comes out as he was hit on the grill and checks he knows the prime minster’s name – tricky one that.
8th over: England 39-2 (Root 14, Brook 15) A third no ball of the innings, and a third free hit – this time Brook carves Prasidh away to the boundary. India have been brilliant but careless to bowl so many no balls. Also four dots and a four to Root down to long leg.
7th over: England 29-2 (Root 9, Brook 11) Root scampers a single to Bumrah’s third ball- over to you mate. Brook charges down the wicket and … gets an inside edge onto his pad. But then Bumrah oversteps again and Root picks up four on the legside.
6th over: England 21-2 (Root 3, Brook 10) Brook tries to haul Prasidh leg side but misses and gets thudded in the guts, sending his bat flying. A forward defensive to settle the nerves. Then gets hit on the back thigh as he tries to loft another. But after five dot balls, he casually ramps six like a man swatting a fly.
5th over: England 14-2 (Root 3, Brook 4) What a thrilling start – survival is all England can grip onto at the moment. Bumrah no balls and the free hit is a yorker that brushes Root’s stumps. Root has a bit of a swish at another and Bumrah thinks it might be caught behind – but gets no support from his captain or former captain Kohli.
4th over: England 12-2 (Root 3, Brook 4) Relief – of sorts – in the form of a kamikaze charge and smack from Harry Brook – who gets an inside edge for four.
WICKET! Bethell c Ishan b Prasidh 4 (England 8-2)
Rubber ball bounce, Bethell is stranded with a defensive bat and gets a feather of an outside edge.
3rd over: England 7-1 (Bethell 4, Root 2) Burmrah, wearing a long necklace, releases a succession of exocets, Bethell beaten twice in a row. Then a late-swinging yorker from the heavens that fells Bethell, leaving him sprawled on all fours, but Bumrah’s hands say it would have swung legside.
2nd over: England 5-1 (Bethell 4, Root 1) Prasidh with some tricksy stuff. Root is hit one ball, chases a wide one the next. A maiden.
1st over: England 5-1 (Bethell 4, Root 1) Bumrah is smiling his wolfish smile as Duckett trudges away having gone finishing in iron boots. But some succour for England as Bethell, squinting into the sun, cover drives four gloriously.
WICKET! Duckett c Ishan b Bumrah 0 (India 0-1)
An outside edge first ball, and Duckett turns his head to watch the ball fly into the stand-in keeper’s gloves!
And here come the players…
India have to hope that the pitch offers something to their bowlers or this should be easy work for England. Feeling for the spectators in that heat, there are some lovely trees in Sophia Gardens if people can exit the ground for the park and some shade between innings.
Thanks Tim, great stuff as ever. Well that was a bit of a surprise, unoriginally I was expecting the Virat Kohli of whippy wrists and clean strikes who marched out today to lead India towards 300.
That’s my shift done. Tanya Aldred will be here shortly to add some sparkle to the proceedings and to see if England can level the series.
Thanks for your company and some learned correspondence. I’ll be back on Sunday for what should be the decider – but with England, especially in this format nowadays, you can never be sure.
So India really were England in disguise. From 178-3, with Kohli lording it, they lost seven wickets for just 55.
It was a great team effort from England, with Sam Curran and Will Jacks changing the game early on, the three fast bowlers (Archer, Mahmood and Atkinson) taking eight wickets between them, Jos Buttler collecting four catches, and Harry Brook cashing in his chips after gambling on a shortened innings.
Joe Root and co. should be able to chase 234 without too much fuss, but after seeing the Indians produce so many top edges and to-ends, they will be a little wary of the pitch.
India all out for 233! (Prasidh Krishna b Atkinson 0 )
If a No.11 misses, Gus Atkinson hits!
Wicket! Shreyas Iyer c Buttler b Atkinson 66 (India 233-9)
Atkinson does well, finding just enough seam movement to take the edge as Shreyas plays a dab from deep in his crease. Shreyas played well, but he went a bit quiet and in the end Bumrah couldn’t shield him.
42nd over: India 232-8 (Shreyas 66, Bumrah 20) Brook keeps Mahmood on, betting that his pacemen can wrap things up before he needs to go back to the spinners. Bumrah goes boom-boom”! He reels off three fours – a deft on-drive, a top-edged pull and a bosh past midwicket – and then puts the icing on gthe cake with a pull for six.
Great stuff. The question now is, will Bumrah turn down a single to keep Shreyas off the strike?
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41st over: India 214-8 (Shreyas 66, Bumrah 2) After using up Archer’s allocation, Brook goes back to Atkinson, who removed the dangerous Gill before blowing a bit hot and cold. Shreyas, showing more faith in Bumrah than he did in Gurnoor, takes a single off the first ball. There are three more singles, including one that pops up off the splice and lands safely, as so many edges have today.
“Not much sympathy from England for Gurnoor,” says Jon Salisbury, “after his send-offs in the last game.” Good spot!
41st over: India 210-8 (Shreyas 64, Bumrah 0) The great Jasprit Bumrah, who will be looking forward to bowling on this pitch, now has to bat on it. Brook greets him with a slip, a gully and a short leg. Bumrah responds with some elegant blocks. And Mahmood collects a wicket maiden: he has 8-1-34-2.
Wicket! Gurnoor c Atkinson b Mahmood 7 (India 210-8)
Gurnoor’s flashing blade turns out to be his undoing as a top edge sails out to Atkinson, who makes up for the catch he dropped early on.
40th over: India 210-7 (Shreyas 64, Gurnoor 7) Brook, going for broke, gives Archer his tenth and final over. That short leg who was needed for the hat-trick ball is now in place, and so is a man out for the top edge. Archer, double-bluffing, gives Gurnoor a couple of full deliveries, each steered away for two. When the short ball comes, Gurnoor takes a blow to the arm, which looks painful. A caption tells us that England’s seamers went from one-third short stuff in the first 28 overs to two-thirds since.
Archer gets a big hand from the crowd as he finishes with fine figures (10-0-47-3) and the scalp of Kohli again. He’s been bowling beautifully, in red, white or blue. It’s just a worry that his various captains are making him work so hard.
39th over: India 205-7 (Shreyas 64, Gurnoor 2) Brook keeps Mahmood on too. Shreyas cover-drives him, handsomely, but only for two as Duckett scampers round the boundary. Four off the over, which will suit England nicely.
38th over: India 201-7 (Shreyas 61, Gurnoor 1) Brook keeps Archer on for his ninth over, which is a surprise. Better from Shreyas, who gets four off the first ball with a swivel-pull, à la Rohit, and doesn’t turn up his nose at a single off the second. Gurnoor responds to this show of faith by taking a single himself with an unexpectedly dashing cut.
37th over: India 194-7 (Shreyas 55, Gurnoor 0) What do you do now, if you’re Shreyas? Possibly not turn down singles, which is what he does off the first two balls of Mahmood’s over. He may as well hold up a sign saying “Our No. 9 can’t bat.”
Perhaps thinking better of the policy, he takes a single with a dab off the third ball, leaving the second half of the over to Gurnoor, who has little trouble surviving. But India may have to lower their sights. “They’ll do well here,” says Ravi Shastri, “to reach even 260.”
36th over: India 193-7 (Shreyas 54, Gurnoor 0) The Indians, who went into their shell when Curran and Jacks came on earlier, have done it again now against Archer and Mahmood, only more so, as there’s been a tumble of wickets too. They have lost four for 15 in the last 26 balls, three of them to Archer – who would have a hat-trick if Brook had given him a forward short leg, as Gurnoor Brar fended uncertainly at his first ball.
Wicket! Shivam Dube c&b Archer 0 (India 193-7)
Two in two balls! Dube goes for a golden duck as Jofra takes a sharp return catch.
Wicket! Axar Patel c Buttler b Archer 1 (India 193-6)
One brings three! Archer’s lifter is too much for Axar, who wafts at it and gives Buttler another simple catch. So England have seen off both the men who added an unbeaten hundred on Tuesday.
35th over: India 191-5 (Shreyas 53, Axar Patel 1) We’ve seen so many top edges and toe-ends that the pitch must be more treacherous than it looks. Shreyas, facing Mahmood, cloths a pull and is lucky to find Brook, who has such sharp eyes, failing to pick it up.
“Nice to see the term ‘fighting back’,” says John Starbucks. “Michael Parkinson, in his book Cricket Mad, told us how, whenever Yorkshire CCC were not winning, they were always, according to the local newspaper sellers, ‘Yorkshire fighting back,’ no matter how disastrously the match was going. Sheer bloody-mindedness was how they played the game.”
That’s a nice tale – and John gets extra marks for doing his own single quotes.
Fifty to Shreyas!
34th over: India 188-5 (Shreyas 51, Axar Patel 0) Amid all that palaver, Shreyas just stood at the other end. Now he’s back in the limelight, flicking Archer off his hip for six to reach a fine fifty off only 42 balls. His task now is to boss the rest of the innings.
33rd over: India 181-5 (Shreyas 44, Axar Patel 0) Brook, seeing Archer make the breakthrough, brough back his other new-ball bowler, Saqib Mahmood. And suddenly there were incidents and accidents, as Paul Simon would have observed. First, there was Washington Sundar’s injury – and the shot he played, a clip to leg, hit a seagull. It was tenderly carried off the field by Jacob Bethell, making good use of his upbringing on an island famous for its beaches. Then Sundar was out. Well bowled Saqib, who conceded only two on top of taking the wicket.
Wicket! Washington Sundar c Buttler b Saqib Mahmood 2 (India 181-5)
One brings two! Washington, after pulling up lame and needing strapping, can’t cope with a sharp bouncer and flaps it towards the vacant leg slip, where Buttler takes an easy catch.
32nd over: India 179-4 (Shreyas 42, Sundar 1) Well bowled Jofra. He had nearly got Kohli the ball before, drawing the edge, only to see the ball land just in front of Buttler’s outstretched gloves.
About 20 minutes ago, Mark Butcher asled Eoin Morgan if he would bring back Archer now. Yes, he said, because at this stage of a one-day innings it’s all about taking wickets, to keep the runs down later. Brook will get some credit for the wicket, but he may have missed a trick there.
Drinks: India 178-4, England fighting back
That’s drinks, with England delighted to have got Kohli out for 60 rather than 120. India have a strong middle order, as they showed on Tuesday, but England have shown good fight twice – first when Curran and Jacks put the plug in, then with Archer bagging Kohli for the second time in three days.
WICKET!! Kohli c Rashid b Archer 65 (India 178-4)
Jofra Archer comes back with one job: to break this partnership. And he does! Kohli skews a pull, gets a leading edge and presents a catch to Rashid at third man.
31st over: India 177-3 (Kohli 65, Shreyas 42) That spell from Jacks was a one-over job. Brook brings back Rashid, which is music to Shreyas’s ears: he plays a lap for two and a straight drive for six. Rashid almost bites back, drawing a chip which he can’t quite turn into a caught-and-bowled. The partnership is already 65, off 63 balls.
30th over: India 168-3 (Kohli 65, Shreyas 33) Kohli, itching to impose himself, pulls Atkinson’s first ball for four, well in front of square. He likes that shot so much he tries it again, hitting it well but straight to the man in the deep. Then there’s yet another top edge – and another that India get away with as Shreyas’s mis-pull plops to the ground well in front of Archer.
29th over: India 160-3 (Kohli 58, Shreyas 32) Jacks was just changing ends as Brook gives Curran a rest (6-1-23-1). And Jacks is still over-performing for a part-timer, keeping both batters honest – four singles, two dots and a wide off the over. The only worry is the thought than anything Jacks can do, the Indian spinners can probably do better.
28th over: India 155-3 (Kohli 56, Shreyas 30) After three good overs for India, Harry Brook feels it’s time to take off Jacks (4-0-16-1) and bring back Gus Atkinson. The change almost works as Shreyas plays a lofted flick but he’s dropped. Duckett, racing to his left from deep backward square, can only help the ball on its way to the rope.
Fifty to Kohli!
27th over: India 149-3 (Kohli 55, Shreyas 25) Kohli, who started so imperiously, has been almost humble in the past half-hour. But now there’s a fifty to be reached and he gets there in style with a straight drive for four off Curran. That is the 132nd time he has waved his bat for a fifty in ODIs alone, and the 232nd time in all international cricket. The crowd roar as if they’ve never seen him do it before.
England retort with a fine stop from the feline Jacob Bethell, followed by a direct hit, but Shreyas is in. And India are back on top.
26th over: India 140-3 (Kohli 49, Shreyas 22) Shreyas, revved up now, tricks Jacks by shaping to go down the track, then rocking back and pulling a long hop for four. After a slow start, this partnership is threatening to get big.
25th over: India 133-3 (Kohli 48, Shreyas 16) Curran continues, with Buttler standing up to the stumps for Shreyas, but not for Kohli. The batters take a few singles before Shreyas pulls for four – the first boundary Curran has conceded, off his 28th delivery.
Shreyas follows up with a dab for two to make ten off the over, the first good one India have had for some time. At the halfway stage, they’re still well placed and have their eye on 300. But much depends on whether Kohli can make a hundred.
24th over: India 123-3 (Kohli 46, Shreyas 8) As abruptly as he was taken off, Will Jacks returns. And he does well enough to restrict two fine players of spin to three singles. Off the last eight overs, India have scraped 20-2.
23rd over: India 120-3 (Kohli 45, Shreyas 6) Curran does continue and almost bags another scalp as he bangs the ball into the pitch, drawing a leading edge from Shreyas that just drops short of backward point.
“Another outstanding over from Sam Curran,” says Eoin Morgan. In a perfect world, those two would be in charge of this 50-over side – Curran as captain, Morgan as coach.
22nd over: India 118-3 (Kohli 44, Shreyas 5) Brook springs a surprise by taking Jacks off and bringing back Rashid. Kohli takes a single and Shreyas doesn’t mess about, going inside-out to drive over extra-cover for four. India have so many captains in this team: Rohit and Kohli, who used to run the show; Gill, who does so now; and Shreyas, who does so in T20s.
21st over: India 111-3 (Kohli 42, Shreyas 0) Sam Curran, who so often makes an impact with bat or ball, has changed the game here. He came on after 16 overs with India sailing along at 103-1. Since then, India have made 8-2 off five overs. Are they England in disguise?