END OF OVER:50 | 10 Runs 2 Wkts | ENG: 321/8 | RR: 6.42
- Ben Stokes57 (39b)
- Bhuvneshwar Kumar8-0-56-0
- Jasprit Bumrah10-1-68-1
5.10 pm England got 58 from their last five with Ben Stokes and Chris Woakes making sure the top-order's work against a new ball that swung and seamed rather remarkably for Indian conditions did not go to waste. Still Jason Roy wouldn't be happy to have given his wicket away in the 60s. Sam Billings and Eoin Morgan picked out the only fielder in the region to pop a catch to. But offsetting all that was Jonny Bairstow, playing his first game of the series, hitting a fifty and helping the lower-middle order push on to get 321, which is a good total on this deck.
Vishal says, "a mini presentation happening at the ground - Dhoni being felicitated and presented with a memento by Kapil Dev, on behalf of Cricket Association of Bengal, for his contribution as India captain. They have also named four stands after some of the biggest names from Bengal in cricket - Pankaj Roy, BN Dutt, Jagmohan Dalmiya and Sourav Ganguly"
"The way I started with a couple of boundaries, but I came back well. The pitch was doing something. We bowled pretty well at the start, but they were scoring boundaries as well. It'll be a good contest with the new ball moving around," says Hardik Pandya. "We'll have to wait till the ball stops swinging. When I got the shoulder injury, I was worried, but I did my training and I'm happy to be back. The dew will come, even in the last few overs we asked the curators about it and they said it will come"
Living in the US, far away from the beating heart of the game, an Indian fan wonders how he can get the next generation to fall in love with it: How do I explain cricket to my first-born?
Prozium: "Big focus on rahane as he need to bat aggressive and bat big..People wrongly and harshly blame him for slow batting in last T20 world cup semifinal against windies.."
LE Plunkett run out 1 (1m 1b 0x4 0x6) SR: 100.00
CR Woakes run out 34 (35m 19b 4x4 1x6) SR: 178.94
Three balls, three singles
Third man and point up. Long-off and long-on back
Bhuvneshwar with the final over, starts around the wicket
END OF OVER:49 | 16 Runs | ENG: 311/6 | RR: 6.34
- Chris Woakes29 (17b)
- Ben Stokes54 (36b)
- Jasprit Bumrah10-1-68-1
- Bhuvneshwar Kumar7-0-46-0