India v England: third Test, day two – live

Root gets his reward for a lovely few overs of bowling. He flights one up, Jadeja takes a stride and hits the ball straight back into Root’s hands.

90th over: India 331-5 (Jadeja 112, Jurel 0) And the other new boy, wicketkeeper Dhruv Jurel, joins Jadeja at the crease. Jadeja gives him a pep talk, let’s hope it doesn’t include the words ‘quick single’. Jurel neatly shoulders arms to his first two balls in Test cricket.

A feathered edge from the nightwatchman.

89th over: India 330-5 (Jadeja 111, Kuldeep 4) Root again, and Jonny Bairstow has adopted the kneeling position at second slip. Can’t be that comfortable. He doesn’t get the ball, as Root wheels through a maiden.

88th over: India 330-5 (Jadeja 111, Kuldeep 4) Jimmy Anderson at the other end has been unpacked from the ironing basket. His first ball is on the money, of course it is. A couple of runs.

And good news from the commentators, who watched Ben Stokes having a bowl during practise this morning.

87th over: India 328-5 (Jadeja 110, Kuldeep 3) An early blast of Jerusalem with your coffee? The Barmy Army are on hand. An outside edge scuttles away off Kuldeep’s bat to bring the first couple of runs of the day. Otherwise a neat opening over from Root.

Joe Root has the ball…

Mark Wood is chatting: “The first two overs I thought it was going to be a very long day, but then it started reversing. There’s a bit in it for everyone, have to put some good toil in and all of a sudden there’s some interest. The outfield and pitch is quick and very green , the wicket is quite hard, the batters are hitting the ball into the ground , which was why it reversed so early (after the second over).

Asked about over rate. “Yesterday was hot, maybe that is something that we need to work on. All in all we’re trying to think about taking wickets, sometimes it might look as if we’re slow, but we’re trying to think about how to take these great players out.”

In the studio Alastair Cook and Steven Finn are talking about ….Sarfaraz Khan. Why wouldn’t you? And then we switch to pictures of England walking off the team bus, all navy blue sports kit and sliders. Time to grab a cup of tea, do drop me a line if you’re awake.

It’s nearly 12 hours later and I still can’t get over the look on poor Sarfaraz Khan’s face after being sucker-punched by Ravindra Jadeja. He had eased past 50 and looked well on the way to a maiden Test hundred in his debut innings. Such ease and attack! But then the yes-no-disaster as Mark Wood flung down the non-striker’s stumps.

After play, Sarfaraz was diplomatically circumspect: “He came to dressing room and said, ‘Thoda sa miscommunication ho gaya tha… (there was a bit of a misunderstanding).’ I said to him, ‘Ye hota rehta hai’. It’s part of the game,”

Jadeja took to instagram,

The moment, however, was lost.

That aside, another gripping day, in another gripping Test. England’s morning – inspired by Mark Wood – before hundreds from Rohit Sharma and Jadeja, and Sarfaraz’s nifty 62 off 66 balls swung things back towards India. Play starts at 4am GMT – see you on the sofa.