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1st Test : India tour of England at Birmingham - ketchim - 08-01-2018
83 - 1 after 28 overs
Win the toss, go to Lunch ~
Current Partnership :
57 runs, 19.1 overs, RR: 2.97 (JE Root 31, KK Jennings 26)
Last Bat :
AN Cook b Ashwin 13 (38m 28b 2X4 0X6) SR: 46.42
FoW :
26/1 (8.5 ov)
1st Test : India tour of England at Birmingham - chairman - 08-01-2018
Eng 148-3
Root 63, Bairstow 16
1st Test : India tour of England at Birmingham - chairman - 08-01-2018
The last 10 times Joe Root has reached fifty, he's failed to go on and score a century.
His last hundred was against West Indies in the day/night Test here last year.
1st Test : India tour of England at Birmingham - chairman - 08-01-2018
Eng 153-3
Jonny Bairstow isn't going to let Ashwin settle. He hits a positive drive on the first ball and then heaves one over the infield to the mid-wicket boundary a ball later.
1st Test : India tour of England at Birmingham - chairman - 08-01-2018
Eng 242-6
Stokes 20, Curran 1
Ravichandran Ashwin will want six deliveries at Sam Curran here.
The India off-spinner gets them but young Curran keeps out all six well. A maiden.
1st Test : India tour of England at Birmingham - chairman - 08-01-2018
Eng 250-7
Adil Rashid plays a fairly nervy clip in the air but it's wide of mid-wicket and he picks up two.
That's 250 up for the hosts. About four more wickets down than they looked like being at this point though.
1st Test : India tour of England at Birmingham - chairman - 08-01-2018
Ishant Sharma is on for his first bowl of the evening session, with one over left until the new ball is available.
1st Test : India tour of England at Birmingham - chairman - 08-01-2018
The new ball is available but India aren't going to take it for now as Ravichandran Ashwin stays in the attack.
1st Test : India tour of England at Birmingham - chairman - 08-01-2018
Sam Curran (20y-59d) is the second youngest England player to appear in a Test match against India. The youngest: 19y-297d Haseeb Hameed in Nov 2016
1st Test : India tour of England at Birmingham - chairman - 08-01-2018
India have had a nice balance when bowling to Sam Curran. The seamers have hung the ball out wide, whilst Ashwin attacks his stump. They're playing on his patience, given that Curran averages 78.50 with the cut shot in FC cricket, and won't leave it alone for long.