That’s a corker. Siraj has absolutely nailed Bethell lbw with a full inswinging yorker, and after all the excitement, he’s gone for six off 14.Bethell has played down the proverbial Bakerloo — he barely waits for the finger to go up before he walks off.This is a brilliant spell of bowling by Siraj and England have gone from 92 without loss to 195 for five. Remember though, that with Chris Woakes out of the game, England only have ten batsmen, so they’re effectively six down.Bethell battling alreadyJacob Bethell gets a bit of a welcome to the crease with a challenging ball from Akash Deep. It’s fuller, seams and seams late and beats the edge.JAVIER GARCIA/SHUTTERSTOCKGood stuff from SirajThis is a really really good spell of fast bowling by Mohammed Siraj and he picks up his second wicket getting Joe Root lbw. Scrambled seam and it comes back to hit Root on the front pad — the England batsman reviews but I don’t think he really thought he might get a reprieve, replays show it is hitting the top of leg stump.AdvertisementThings are shifting on here.WICKET!There’s the big breakthrough! Mohammed Siraj has Joe Root pinned lbw with one that straightened a bit. It’s given out on the field and the England batsman reviews, but it’s three reds and he departs for 29.X (Twitter) content blocked Please enable cookies and other technologies to view this content. You can update your cookies preferences any time using privacy manager. Enable cookies Allow cookies onceAkash Deep getting some stickAkash Deep has been on the end of some heavy criticism on social media for the send off he gave Ben Duckett. It was all very odd, he put his arm round Duckett as he was walking off.The general view is that a bit of verbals is one thing, but making physical contact and invading the personal space of someone who has just got out is not on at all.KIRSTY WIGGLESWORTH/APDrinksDrinks time — England are only trailing by 63 now, but India pulled things back well in that first hour after lunch.AdvertisementRemember, tea isn’t until 3.55pm today, because we are making up lost overs from yesterday. We are supposed to get 98 in today (although we lost two for the change of innings).Zeus doesn’t look too happy...There are some very black clouds looming around the Oval, but it’s staying dry for the moment. My radar app says we might get some rain at about 5pm.Meanwhile, Siraj is very fired up here. He’s working up a head of steam and hitting a good length, meaning the ball is jagging off the seam and hurrying the batsmen up.Siraj has now taken more wickets than any other Indian bowler this series JAVIER GARCIA/SHUTTERSTOCKHarry Brook’s not hanging aroundHarry Brook gets off the mark with a heck of a sketchy boundary — he comes charging down the track and gets an inside edge that flies past leg stump.Mohammed Siraj puts his hands on his head.AdvertisementThis is fabulously entertaining cricket.WICKET!Ollie Pope is out! Very good bowling, and a very good review from Shubman Gill and the England captain has to go back. The ball from Siraj hurried Pope, but it looked like it had done too much and was given not out on the field. Gill reviews just in the nick of time, it’s three reds and off he goes for 22 from 44.X (Twitter) content blocked Please enable cookies and other technologies to view this content. You can update your cookies preferences any time using privacy manager. Enable cookies Allow cookies onceJoe Root survives...India go up for a big appeal for caught behind. One slides down the leg side off Joe Root, and there’s a definite noise but Gill decides not go review. Replays show it had nicked off the pad.A bit of needle...There’s a bit of a delay here… Looks like a bit of chat from Prasidh Krishna to Joe Root, who has come back down the pitch to do a bit of gardening and looks a bit wound up.Kumar Dharmasena has to have a word with Krishna, and Mohammed Siraj is waiting in the wings…AdvertisementYou don’t see the former England captain that riled up very often.X (Twitter) content blocked Please enable cookies and other technologies to view this content. You can update your cookies preferences any time using privacy manager. Enable cookies Allow cookies onceKrishna was involved in a bit of controversy before too, launching the ball back at Crawley when he was clearly in his crease.There was also a brief chat there between India and the umpires about the ball, but Ahsan Raza is not interested.WICKET!England have been becalmed since lunch, and Zak Crawley lost patience. He’s mistimed a pull and sliced it to Jadeja at mid-wicket, who takes an easy catch. First wicket for Prasidh Krishna.That brings Joe Root to the crease having broken a load of records at Old Trafford. The first ball he faces rears up a bit, and he pulls one hand off the bat.AdvertisementIndia deserved that wicket, they’ve been much better with consistent lengths that made it much harder for England after this morning’s carnage.X (Twitter) content blocked Please enable cookies and other technologies to view this content. You can update your cookies preferences any time using privacy manager. Enable cookies Allow cookies onceWICKET!We’re back at the Oval, with Zak Crawley and Ollie Pope resuming, looking to build a big total to put the pressure all on India going into the final three days of the series. England trail by just 113 runs.Pope has been dropped on 12 off Prasidh — edged through gully.LUNCHThat is lunch. What an absolutely bizarre session. India lost four wickets, and then England went tonto — they made it look like they were playing on a different pitch. Duckett was at his audacious best before getting a bit too cocky and ushering one into the hands of Dhruv Jurel off Deep, who had a few words for the opener.Crawley is 52 not out off 43, and Ollie Pope is on 12 off 16 and England are motoring along at nearly seven an over.Fifty!Zak Crawley has his hundred with a thick outside edge that runs to the boundary. It’s his 19th Test half-century in his 59th match. Forty-two balls, twelve fours and a hell of a lot of fun. It takes England past 100.X (Twitter) content blocked Please enable cookies and other technologies to view this content. You can update your cookies preferences any time using privacy manager. Enable cookies Allow cookies onceWICKET!Well that was fun while it lasted, but Ben Duckett has tried one scoop too far and parried it straight into the hands of the keeper for 43 off the bowling of Deep, who celebrates wildly. The bowler gives him a bit of a send-off too, and KL Rahul brings him away.X (Twitter) content blocked Please enable cookies and other technologies to view this content. You can update your cookies preferences any time using privacy manager. Enable cookies Allow cookies onceBut that was a fun opening 12 overs and Duckett has helped give England a very good, very quick platform. Ollie Pope comes to the crease.Boring, boring England...We’ve only had one over without a boundary so far this morning. Crawley and Duckett have put England right on top here.Bazball is backEngland are absolutely flying along. It’s really unsettled the India seamers who are struggling a bit to know what length to bowl.The Crawley-Duckett partnership is growing into a very fruitful one, and has been particularly effective this series — they have just gone past 500 runs together in these five matches.Chris Woakes updateChris Woakes’s injury is understood to be very serious, and it could take him several months to recover which would rule him out of selection for the Ashes.Woakes went to hospital last night and medics struggled to pop the shoulder back into its joint and there could be extensive damage to the ligaments and muscles surrounding the shoulder, although the full extent will not be known for at least a couple of weeks.The Ashes starts in Perth in late November meaning the England all-rounder would only have four months to recover and whilst usually shoulder dislocations only take about three months to heal, Woakes’s might be more serious and take much longer.Ben Duckett’s at it againAnother quite extraordinary shot from the diminutive opener goes for six, and England have reached 55 without loss off fewer than eight overs. He’s trotted across his crease, dropped his hands and flicked one over fine leg off a full Siraj delivery.X (Twitter) content blocked Please enable cookies and other technologies to view this content. You can update your cookies preferences any time using privacy manager. Enable cookies Allow cookies onceShubman Gill makes a field changeThe India captain has lost his nerve — he’s taken a slip out and put him into the covers. An early victory for England.Zak Crawley gets in on the actAnd as if he’s reading our very words, Crawley sends a gorgeous on drive down the ground for four. England are really motoring here.KIRSTY WIGGLESWORTH/APIs Bazball back?Ben Duckett is really in the mood here – he’s made a quickfire 23 from 19 deliveries with three fours and one six, and looks determined to keep punishing anything loose from Siraj and Deep. He took 12 off the latter’s third over, too. The run rate is a handsome 6.6.It’s all happeningThat was a lively over. Duckett gets hit in the nethers, then hit on the pad, it past the inside edge twice and then Duckett reverse scoops for six. Deep has a wry smile on his face after being dispatched over the boundary.X (Twitter) content blocked Please enable cookies and other technologies to view this content. You can update your cookies preferences any time using privacy manager. Enable cookies Allow cookies onceIndia burn a reviewWe have a little break here… Ben Duckett has been hit in the Gangulies. We have a bit of a delay while the physio comes on, although I am never quite sure what they can do.The next ball, Akash Deep has hit Duckett on the pads, but the umpire Kumar Dharmasena is unmoved. It was a good length ball that moves back in, and the bowler convinces his captain Shubman Gill to go upstairs, but it’s going way over middle and leg and Duckett survives.The stars are outSir Gareth Southgate, Peter Reid and Roy Hodgson are in attendance in the Oval’s Committee Room today.How to support a day for ThorpeyToday would have been Graham Thorpe’s 56th birthday. The former England batsman took his own life on August 4 last year, after struggling with anxiety and depression.Today is raising money for Mind, through the sales of a limited edition headband, and the day has been organised in conjunction with the Thorpe family.The headbands are available from shop.mind.org and the mind.ebay.store.Funds raised will support the roll out of “Thorpey’s Bat and Chat” initiative which is a 12-week programme combining cricket sessions with guided psychoeducation to support mental health and wellbeing.Anyone who wants to donate and support the cause can text £5, £10 or £20 by texting THORPEY5, THORPEY10 OR THORPEY20 to 70255.Here we go, thenZak Crawley and Ben Duckett wander out to the middle. Siraj will lead the bowling attack, and will be encouraged by the movement England’s bowlers found this morning.Crawley could do with some runs, he’s averaging 30 in this series from seven innings.WICKET! Five-for for AtkinsonCrikey, it’s all happening! Atkinson gets a bit of movement, induces the edge has Krishna caught behind for a duck, dismissing India for 224. A brilliant return for Atkinson, who’s looked in fantastic nick.Atkinson holds the ball aloft to a big reception from the Oval crowd. Now to see what India’s seamers can get out of this pitch, which still looks quite green.X (Twitter) content blocked Please enable cookies and other technologies to view this content. You can update your cookies preferences any time using privacy manager. Enable cookies Allow cookies onceWICKET!And another! Siraj is dismissed for a duck, clean bowled through the gate by a full one that nipped back by Gus Atkinson. Nothing to be done about that. The returning Atkinson has four for 33, and England are really on the charge here.India are 224 for nine, losing three for 20 this morning alone.Coming together for ThorpeyA lovely picture on a special day.X (Twitter) content blocked Please enable cookies and other technologies to view this content. You can update your cookies preferences any time using privacy manager. Enable cookies Allow cookies onceEngland on the chargeFour slips, a gully and a leg slip for the news batsman Mohammed Siraj and India have slipped to 220 for eight. Looks like England might not need the second new ball.WICKET!Oops — Washington is down on his haunches, livid with himself after giving catching practice to Jamie Overton out at deep forward square. A big pull shot, and not a very good one at that. He goes for 26 off the bowling of Gus Atkinson.We’re 18 minutes in and England have got two of the four they needed.Two new batsmen at the crease, and the pitch is still doing a bit, although the two wickets this morning were really batsman error.X (Twitter) content blocked Please enable cookies and other technologies to view this content. You can update your cookies preferences any time using privacy manager. Enable cookies Allow cookies onceWICKET!Josh Tongue has the early breakthrough, removing Karun Nair lbw for 57. It’s given out on the field and Nair goes to walk off, but his mate Washington Sundar convinces him to send it upstairs.It’s a poor review all told, miles away from the bat, smashing into his back pad absolutely plumb in front. Three reds and he trudges back to the pavilion to leave India 218 for seven.X (Twitter) content blocked Please enable cookies and other technologies to view this content. You can update your cookies preferences any time using privacy manager. Enable cookies Allow cookies onceSession timesAn update on the timings for today’s play.Morning session: 11am – 1pmLunch: 1pm – 1.40pmAfternoon session: 1.40pm – 3.55pmTea: 3.55pm – 4.15pmEvening session: 4.15pm – 6.30pmThere will also be 30 minutes extra allocated to complete the allotted 98 overs.Tributes all roundThree of the England players are wearing their Thorpey headbands. Ben Duckett, Joe Root and Jacob Bethell — the rest have stuck with caps, and the stand-in captain Ollie Pope is under the lid at short leg.X (Twitter) content blocked Please enable cookies and other technologies to view this content. You can update your cookies preferences any time using privacy manager. Enable cookies Allow cookies onceAlmost an immediate impactJosh Tongue almost has the perfect start, a thick edge from Sudharsan flies between the slip cordon and gully for four. A full toss next ball isn’t punished. More of the same, it looks like…GRAHAM HUNT/PROSPORTS/SHUTTERSTOCKWe’re ready to goJerusalem is playing and the players are out on the pitch. Plenty of people wearing the headbands in memory of Thorpey.England’s first job is to get these four wickets. Gus Atkinson said last night he hopes they can be restricted to about 240, but the conditions today look much better for batting. The new ball available in 16 overs but England will need to bowl better than they did yesterday.In Rooty we trustWith Woakes almost definitely out for the rest of the match, England’s attack is a bit light in the wickets department. The most prolific wicket-taker left in England’s XI is Joe Root, with 73… Best hope Stokes and co are fit for Australia…How will England manage without Chris Woakes?England’s bowling attack looked a bit short of firepower before we got under way yesterday, but now with the injury to Chris Woakes, they’ll have even more hard graft to do today.Neil Manthorp is joined by talkSPORT’s cricket editor Jon Norman on the Following On podcast to discuss how the home side will cope.Karun Nair steadies ship after Shubman Gill loses fifth consecutive tossThe India captain’s rotten luck at the toss continued yesterday, meaning India have lost 15 consecutive international coin flips. The odds of that happening are 32,768… His team were put in on a green top under leaden skies, but Karun Nair, who has had a below-average series at best, made his first half-century of the series to guide India to the close.Jarrod Kimber is joined by the former New Zealand all-rounder Jeremy Coney to talk through the events on day one.Tributes to Graham ThorpeAlmost 30,000 people will gather at a sold-out Kia Oval this morning on a day in which England will honour and celebrate the life of Graham Thorpe (Cameron Wilson writes).On what would have been the left-hander’s 56th birthday, “A Day for Thorpey” will be held as England’s series finale against India enters its second day.Those watching — whether from the stands or on screens at home — will witness a sea of white headbands in the crowd, in memory of the former great’s on-field look. Thorpe, who died on August 4 last year, played 100 tests for England. The sight of him removing his helmet to expose that famous headband when celebrating a century — something he did 16 times — became iconic.Thorpe was one of the most complete England batters of the 90s and early 2000s GORDON BROOKS/AFPJoe Root has already been seen warming up wearing the limited edition headband. In celebration, the talisman has pointed up in tribute to one of the nation’s all-time greats.The headwear was lovingly designed by Thorpe’s widow, Amanda, and daughters Kitty and Emma, alongside the mental health charity Mind. It’s available on their website for £5 and the proceeds will go to “Thorpey’s Bat and Chat”, a grassroots programme running alongside the charity.England’s captain Pope, left, and Root warm up wearing the headband on day two at the Oval STU FORSTER/GETTY IMAGESExtended playWe will have an extended day today, to try to make up some lost overs from the rain interruptions yesterday. Play can go on until 7pm today, should conditions allow…Josh Tongue is like Zak Crawley — big on impact, short on consistencyThe England bowler was all over the place on the first day at the Oval (Steve James writes). But, his two beautiful dismissals of Sai Sudharsan and Ravindra Jadeja showed how the lack of predictability can trouble batsmen.CRICVIZRead the full piece on Tongue’s mixed day here.What does Woakes injury mean for England’s XI?England will be allowed a substitute fielder for the rest of the match, but they will not be allowed any other sort of replacement, and so we only have ten batsmen.Replacements are only allowed in the case of concussion, although substitute fielders are allowed to keep wicket, As we saw when Rishabh Pant Was injured in both the Lord’s and the Old Trafford Tests when Dhruv Jurel took the gloves.Good morningGood morning everyone. Good news from the Oval, the weather is much better today — reasonably warm, dry and the sun is trying to break through the clouds.The big news is that Chris Woakes is out of the rest of this Test match as it stands, having landed awkwardly on his left shoulder yesterday evening. It’s a big blow for England, leaving them a seamer light in an already inexperienced attack.India staged a late fightback yesterday and the general consensus is they’ve actually got to a half decent score given the pitch is seaming and swinging.Today, everyone at the Oval is remembering Graham Thorpe, people have been encouraged to wear headbands as a celebration of his life. Money is being raised for the mental health charity MIND.Join me throughout the day for all the action on and off the pitch.
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