England v India: fifth Test, day one – live!

Anderson adjusts his line, making Gill play, but the consequence is only a controlled edge, dropping well short of the cordon, and a couple of leg byes.The other opening bowler is ... Stuart Broad. I wonder if Stokes was tempted to go with Matthew Potts, as he’s the devil the Indians don’t know and it would really get Broad going. But Broad it is, and he opens with a no-ball before joining the dots as Cheteshwar Pujara just looks to survive and Broad, like his old mate, strays too wide.

1 Shubman Gill, 2 Cheteshwar Pujara, 3 Hanuma Vihari, 4 Virat Kohli, 5 Shreyas Iyer, 6 Rishabh Pant , 7 Ravindra Jadeja, 8 Shardul Thakur, 9 Mohammed Shami, 10 Mohammed Siraj, 11 Jasprit Bumrah .Stokes likes to announce his team the day before, so no surprises here. Jimmy Anderson returns, Jamie Overton drops out and Sam Billings gets a proper start rather than a last-minute dash. The big question is whether Stuart Broad will have recovered from his extra-long shift at Headingley.

Rohit Sharma, India’s new Test captain, has sadly gone down with Covid, which is bad news for connoisseurs of old-school Test opening but intriguing news for students of sporting strategy. Stokes captains just the way he plays, a man on a mission to make things happen. If Bumrah turns out to be that sort of captain too, this Test could be over by tomorrow night.

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