IND vs ENG LIVE, 3rd Test Day 1: India 34/3; Rohit, Jadeja look to rebuild after Patidar, Gill, Jaiswal fall early

Beaten! Angling away and Wood beats Jadeja’s outside edge as he keeps it on a tricky length. Angling away wider outside off-stump and Jadeja lets it go. 

Hartley continues. He keeps it on the stumps and bowls on a good length. Beaten! Some turn too and Rohit plants his foot forward to defend but the ball goes past his outside edge. This one stops on him and Rohit almost hands a return catch trying to punch off the backfoot. Excellent from Hartley. 

Wood continues from the other end. Unexpected bounce again and Rohit is hit on the grill as he looks to evade the bouncer. Next one is on a good length and Rohit defends. Short again and Rohit hops and defends it on the off-side. Short again and pulled to deep sqaure for a single and Rohit will keep strike. 

Spin comes into the equation as Tom Hartley replaces Anderson in the attack. Loose ball outside leg-stump and swept to deep backward square-leg for a single. OUT! Extra bounce, some turn too and Patidar ends up guiding the ball straight into the hands of cover. Ravindra Jadeja has been promoted up the order. Defended off the front foot to end the over. 

Rajat Patidar c Ben Duckett b Tom Hartley 5 (15b 1x4)

Rohit starts off the over with a single, flicking to midwicket. Patidar is off the mark with a single, tucking it fine-leg. Short and Rohit pulls it behind deep square-leg for a single. FOUR! Punched off the backfoot by Patidar through the cover region and that will give him some confidence after a jittery start. Back of a length, angling in and defended solidly by Patidar. Short ball and Patidar tucks it on leg-side. 

Anderson again. Gently flicked by Rohit to square-leg for a quick single. Patidar leaves the next one outside off. This jags back in a bit and Patidar leaves the ball, which is precariously close to off-stump. Beaten! Back of a length wide outside off, and Patidar can’t connect his square-cut. Left alone again wide outside off-stump. Finally some bat on ball for Patidar as he defends this back to Anderson. 

Wood continues. Short-of-a-length and tucked through square for a single by Rohit. Defended off the backfoot this time by Gill to cover. Beaten! Angling in after pitching, keeps low, and beats Gill’s inside edge. OUT! Outside edge and taken by the keeper and Wood has two in the first half hour. Rajat Patidar comes in next and defends to cover. He then leaves one outside off to end the over. 

Anderson again. Rohit tucks it away through square-leg for a single. Big appeal for lbw as Anderson raps Gill on the pads with a delivery that comes in. Big inside edge and England doesn’t review it. Gill finally defends one with conviction back to the bowler. Pitched up and Gill plants his front leg forward to defend it to short cover. Defended again after taking a big stride forward and that’s the end of the over. 

FOUR! Half-volley on the legs and Rohit flicks it with ease to the midwicket boundary. Beaten! Short, Rohit goes for the pull but misses as the ball doesn’t bounce as much as he expected it to. Short again, going down leg-side, and Rohit pulls it to deep fine for a single. OUT! Jaiswal gets an outside edge and taken in the three-man slip cordon. The pitch has been flat and this will come as a huge breakthrough for England in very friendly batting conditions. Shubman Gill comes in next. Chopped to gully to end the over. 

Anderson continues. FOUR! Jaiswal mistimes a drive down the ground but the ball still rolls to the boundary and beats Ollie Pope’s chase. This one is shorter, angling away and Jaiswal does well to let it go. Angling away again and left alone again by Jaiswal. Anderson gets one to move away slightly and Jaiswal defends it late to point. Just the one boundary from the over. 

Mark Wood from the other end. Straying on leg-stump and Jaiswal flicks it for a single to fine-leg. FOUR! Pitched up on middle and Rohit presents a full face of the bat to push it down the ground for his first boundary. Full again, on off-stump, and Rohit defends it to mid-off. Good length now, and Rohit leaves even as the ball nips back in a bit off the pitch. Rohit punches it through cover for a couple to end the over. 

Rohit Sharma and Yashasvi Jaiswal make their way to the middle to kick-off proceedings. Jaiswal on strike and James Anderson has the ball. Three slips in place.

FOUR! Jaiswal is off the mark in style. Pitched up on middle and leg and Jaiswal drives it down the ground for a boundary first ball. Good length next up and Jaiswal tucks it off his hips for a single. Slight movement away and Rohit lets it go outside off-stump. Full on middle stump and Rohit defends with the inside half of the bat. This one nips back in and Rohit is beaten, but it is a no-ball and Anderson will have to bowl that one again. Beaten! This seams away slightly and beats Rohit’s outside edge. Defended solidly to short cover to end the first over. 

India - 1 Rohit Sharma (capt), 2 Yashasvi Jaiswal, 3 Shubman Gill, 4 Rajat Patidar, 5 Sarfaraz Khan, 6 Ravindra Jadeja, 7 Dhruv Jurel (wk), 8 R Ashwin, 9 Kuldeep Yadav, 10 Jasprit Bumrah, 11 Mohammed Siraj

England - 1 Zak Crawley, 2 Ben Duckett, 3 Ollie Pope, 4 Joe Root, 5 Jonny Bairstow, 6 Ben Stokes (capt), 7 Ben Foakes (wk), 8 Rehan Ahmed, 9 Tom Hartley, 10 Mark Wood, 11 James Anderson

We’d have batted too, that’s what you do in India. Time does fly when you’re having fun. Series in nicely balanced, it’s a fair reflection of things. We’re happy with how things have gone. Refreshed after the break. There was no cricket, we got the families out in Dubai. Cricket can be physically and mentally demanding, so it was nice to get the feet up. The great thing about Test is there are so many moments and India came out on top. One change: Mark Wood comes back for Shoaib Bashir.

We’ve made four changes. Some injuries, some guys coming back. Two debutants. Siraj and Jadeja are back. Axar and Mukesh miss out. Good pitch, better than the last two ones. We know Rajkot is supposed to be a good pitch, will behave differently as time goes on. We played well as a group. Guys stood up when they had to last game. The next three games will be as exciting as the first two. We’ll have to keep focus on what we can do here and come out on top.

India wins the toss and elects to bat first. Siraj and Jadeja are back for India in place of Axar and Mukesh. 

Sarfaraz Khan and Dhruv Jurel look set to make their debut today. 

For over a decade, Ravichandran Ashwin and Ravindra Jadeja have been two sides of India’s spin coin that have tossed a majority of the opposition batting line-ups around, especially while playing at home. It will thus be fitting to witness that Ashwin – who was left agonisingly close to crossing the 500-wicket mark in Test cricket in Visakhapatnam – is set to make history with Jadeja at home and possibly bowling from the other end. 

“He will definitely complete his 500 wickets on this ground. I am very excited because I have been playing with him for 12-13 years and to achieve this milestone of completing 500 Test wickets is really huge,” Jadeja said here on Wednesday ahead of India’s third Test against England.

Where can we watch the third Test between India and England?

The third Test between India and England in Rajkot will be telecast on the Sports18 network. The match can also be live streamed via the Jio Cinema app and website.

If England is deemed the epitome of new-age Test cricket under Ben Stokes, who will play his 100th Test here, India is a concoction of new and moving parts, a team in transition. This fascinating rivalry, a clash of cultures and philosophies, between England’s rock ‘n’ roll revelry and the timeless truths of Test cricket, the Indian way, is ready to rip itself a new chapter when the third Test gets underway at the Niranjan Shah Stadium in Rajkot on Thursday.