What a strange pitch this has been. At the toss, seeing those cracks, you have to bat first but those first two hours, with the moisture still in the wicket, were, apart from the ones that keep low, the hardest to date. We can only hope that it deteriorates more and more.
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331-7, 95 overs
Root 108 (236)
Robinson 53 (81)
His highest score before was 44 in the 5 day format.
331/7
345-7
347-8
Robinson 58 (96) c Jurel b Jadeja
347/8
Bashir 0 (2) c Patidar b Jadeja
Two wickets in an over coming off two arguably unnecessary shots.
349/9
Crazy over with Robinson going for the reverse sweep and Bashir slogging his 2nd ball and both out in the same over.
353 all out.
Bizarre last 10 minutes after 57 minutes of excellent batting this morning.
Anderson 0 (4) lbw b Jadeja
353 all out off 104.5 overs.
Root left stranded on 122* (274)
4-1, 2.4 overs
Sharma 2 (9) c Foakes b Anderson
4-1
Robinson gets a thick edge off Jaiswal but it doesn’t quite carry to Crawley at second slip.
India 34/1 with Jaiswal 27 not out.
57-1
The camera from the side angle looks like a clean low catch.
86-2
That partnership was looking ominous with the Foakes decision not going England's way.