Joe Root’s third century in three Tests put England in total command of the match with a lead of 345 runs and two first-innings wickets intact
The breakthrough! Shami first gets Burns playing with a crooked bat outside off, then bursts through the gate with the nip-backer. Is this the moment the game changes?
49th over: England 135-0 (Burns 61, Hameed 66) Kohli doesn’t go as far as making a bowling change, but he does bring in a leg slip for Ishant, bowling to Hameed. And it perhaps has an impact as Hameed first plays and misses, then gets a thick edge, low into the slips. It brings a single, which leads Dinesh Karthik – usually very sharp – to say you make your own luck. That’s another saying I don’t understand. Isn’t luck, by definition, the bit you don’t make?
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