India v England: third Test, day four – live

Then put your little hand in mine
There ain’t no hill or mountain we can’t climb

Hello and welcome to live coverage of the third day of the third Test in Rajkot. England will resume on 207 for two, a deficit of 238, with a great chance of taking control of the match and the series. India are without Ravichandran Ashwin, and if England bat all day there will be no way back for India.

Yeah, if only. How England would have loved to wake up to Sonny and Cher this morning, like Bill Murray in Groundhog Day, with the chance do yesterday all over again. While their batting performance was nowhere near as irresponsible as some of the more entitled criticism would suggest, they did miss a fantastic opportunity to win this Test. Or, rather, they had it taken away from them. India were magnificent, a great team reasserting their supremacy in a time of extreme adversity. Joe Root’s ill-timed scoop gave them an in; they took a mile.

India will resume on 196 for two, a whopping lead of 322. Realistically the game is up for England, but the fourth Test starts here: the manner of the defeat will reverberate, so England need to make some positives: wickets for their spinners, low scores for Sarfaraz Khan and Dhruv Jurel, runs for Root and Jonny Bairstow, miles in the Indian bowlers’ legs. They’ll take anything.