India vs England Highlights, 3rd Test, Day 2: Root century, ENG batsmen lead hosts to 423/8 at Stumps, lead of 345 runs

Interesting first hour, that.

While India managed to pick just the one wicket but they haven't managed England to run away.

However, and to be fair, England are in no hurry.

ENG are 141/5 after 57 overs.

Time for Drinks

ENG are 141/1 after 55 overs.

Comeback man Malan is facing Bumrah up first and India have three slips and a gully.

In the blockhole first up, is Bumrah!

FOUR! A nice, confident start from Malan as he creams the ball through cover for four. His first runs are acknowledged by a LOUD cheer from the crowd.

ENG are 140/1 after 53 overs, lead by 62 runs.

Indians have become a tad louder in the field after the first wicket and why not as it may be the start of good things to come.

Kohli has now set a more aggressive field as he has stationed a short mid-off.

A neat over from Shami, attacking the stumps on all six balls.

ENG are 136/1 after 52 overs.

Dawid Malan, playing his first Test in over three years, is the new batter in.

And we also have a bowling change.

Jasprit Bumrah replaces Ishant Sharma.

ENG are 136/1 after 51 overs.

OUT! India have finally managed to get a breakthrough.

Shami castles Burns. From around the wicket, Shami angles the ball into the stumps from a wide angle. The ball pitches on length and jags in sharply through the bat-and-pad gap of Burns to clip the top of off.

Burns walks back after a well-made 61.

ENG are 135/1 after 50 overs, leading by 57 runs.

No wickets for India in the first half an hour of the day and on the other hand, England have scored 15 runs to increase their lead to 57.

Ishant Sharma isn't able to extract much from the pitch and has been largely ineffective.

FOUR! As we have seen so far, Hameed is very strong square of the wicket. Shami drags the ball towards Hameed's pads and the batsman clips it comfortably to the deep square-leg boundary.

Shami finishes with a bouncer.

ENG are 130/0 after 46 overs.

At the start of the day, Indian fans were licking their lips at the sight of dark, grey clouds looming over Headingley. However, Indian bowlers haven't been able to threaten the English batsmen.

FOUR! The field for Burns has been set as such, with two slips and backward short leg, that it requires Ishant Sharma to come around the wicket and angle the ball into Burns from a wide angle. However, the margin of error is low and this boundary through deep square leg region bears testament.

Ishant hasn't been able to show great control thus far. He is either bowling too wide or straying down leg.

ENG are 126/0 after 45 overs.

Mohammed Shami is operating from the other end and he begins with a bouncer to Burns.

Shami begins with a maiden

ENG 121/0 after 44 overs.

Ishant Sharma to Rory Burns for the first ball of the day!

Sharma strays down the leg first ball and batsmen run a single.

It's quite chilly out there, 16 degrees celsius, which is why the players have their sleeveless jumpers on.

ENG 121/0 after 43 overs

The players are out on the field. It's going to be a huge session for both teams. For one team, it's about consolidating further on the start, for another, it's about making their presence felt.

Let's go!

Just a little over 5 minutes to go for the start of the second day. If I India strike early, they will be right back in it but if they don't, then it could get even more difficult for them to crawl back into the contest

“He should give a quick call to SRT (Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar) and ask what should I do?"

“That is a bit of a worry for me, because he is getting dismissed at the fifth, sixth and even seventh stump. In 2014, he was getting out more around the off-stump."

"India would want to forget this day as soon as possible. Unfortunately, you cannot because you have to come back tomorrow and there are 5 days in a Test. When you have such a day, it's not easy to forget it or come out of it."

"They will need to find a way. They should try and do something different. When I say different, I don't mean technique, I mean come out with a different mindset. The more they think about this day, the more it will get difficult for them to move on. It is important for India to forget this day. Nothing went in their way; neither the bat nor the bowling."

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India conceding a 1st innings lead on the opening day

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36 v NZ Mohali 1999/00

We haven't yet heard an official pitch report but from what Atherton told in the pre-match show, it does look a lot browner. Whatever demons (if at all any) there were on Day 1, appears to have settled so it boils down to the weather now. If it assists the seamers, they can get something out of it but otherwise, the Indian seamers are in for a long day.

As a mark of respect to former England captain Ted Dexter, who passed away at the age of 86 on Wednesday night, England players will wear black armbands today at Headingley.

IT IS CLOUDY! For once, all Indian supporters would jump in the air, hearing this update. Overcast conditions do allow the ball to swing more but Mike Atherton informs that it's a bit cold which might create a bit of hindrance for swing. One can never be quite sure about the English weather can he?

Start pitching it up for starters. All four of their fast bowlers bowled a tad too short on Day 1. To be fair to them, it did ease out as the day progressed but this Indian attack takes pride in bowling out oppositions in difficult conditions. Ishant looked a bit under the weather, Bumrah and Shami were perhaps the most impressive ones but even they were not consistent enough to make inroads. They need to strike early on Day 2 and get into the vulnerable England middle order which is still heavily dependent on captain Root.

Anderson is running away with the advantage at the moment. The England great has already dismissed Kohli twice in the series and questions are being raised whether the Indian captain is revisiting the horrors of 2014. The legendary Sunil Gavaskar feels Kohli should take a leaf out of Tendulkar's book. Sachin had ditched playing a cover drive in the Sydney Test in Australiain the 2003-04 tour and got a double century.

It was one of those where nothing went right for India. Their well-functioning top-order cam a cropper, there was no redemption from the middle-order and no jaw-dropping partnership from the tail. Worst of all, their seamers were off-colour. Shami, Bumrah, Ishant and Siraj failed to find the right areas and England to register their first century opening stand of this season. It's a hard task to comeback from India. England have taken such a giant stride on Day 1 itself, that only a miracle can stop them from winning this Test. But one thing we all know, that this Indian side is never too far away from miracles.

It was nothing short of a nightmare if you are in the Indian camp and exactly the opposite if you are an England fan. One would have to struggle to find even one passage of play in the entire day in which England didn't dominate. The only thing that went in India's favour was the toss. They opted to bat, Anderson ran through their top-order for not many before Craig Overton and Sam Curran made easy work of the Indian middle order to bowl them out for 78. In reply, England openers Rory Burns and Haseeb Hameed struck unbeaten fifties to take them to 121 for no loss.