England v India: third men’s cricket Test, day one – live | England v India 2025

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4th over: England 9-0 (Crawley 1, Duckett 7) Akash Deep beats Crawley with an absolute beauty that jags off the pitch and carries through to Pant above waist height. Signs of life! Deep is bowling beautifully here, he rips one back through Crawley that bounces over the stumps and nearly flicks the inside edge. Riveting stuff in the first 20 minutes. It is nibbling about in St John’s Wood, Deep completes a maiden.

Bonjour Michael Jelley:

“Hi Jim, following you from Bordeaux this afternoon; scorchio scarcely covers it.

I’m hoping England’s bowling sextet can keep it up for the duration. I’m a little worried that between Stokes’s stamina, Archer’s fragility, Bashir’s inexperience and Root’s part-timer status there’s a lot of burden on Woakes and Carse to bowl lots of overs and take the majority of the 20 wickets as well.

However, Baz and Ben have repeatedly demonstrated that I know the square root of very little, so here’s to England declaring on 700-2 just after tea, and using their mystery bowler Mr S Pressure to extract the visitors…”

I hear you, but you haven’t mentioned Jofra, Michael? He’s guaranteed to get a ten-fer, that’s how cricket works. Right?

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