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Two early wickets from Stuart Broad... 173-5 (lead 134)... just a sniff of a possible result here... until the inevitable 100 stand by the 10th wicket :)

Tea on Day 3 England 205-7 74-6 in the session NO wickets in the first session of the day. SIX in the second. Who would have thought that??

Stokes has a nibble at his second ball... edges it to Dhoni. OH DEAR! 202-7 Cook will be strapping his pads on again soon. :facepalm: Draw anyone??

Prior given... caught behind... Dhoni standing up to Kumar NOWHERE NEAR IT :nono: THAT WAS A SHOCKER FROM DHARMASENA... exactly what DRS was made for! FFS 202-6

I only said COULD. :facepalm:

Uncharacteristic Shocker from Moeen Ali... turning away from a short ball that doesn't bounce.. back of bat, lobs up to slip :nono: 197-5 oops! Still 260 behind.

and another for Sharma.. a bit more bounce and Bell WAFTS at one high and wide outside off... nick to Dhoni. 172-4 England under pressure.

Ballance gone for 71... also LBW to Sharma 154-3 Both wickets have fallen since India asked for and got a change of ball... a little swing, a some slightly more positive bounce seems to be undoing the batsmen.

Mid afternoon yesterday we might have bowled them out for 350. It was about 2 hours later than that it looked forlorn. That said... we COULD just bat for 5 more sessions... and get a modest lead together... and put them under pressure on a wearing surface?? No, probably not! :)

Lunch - Day 3 No wickets and 88 runs from 31 overs for England. England 131-1 (48 overs) Ballance 59* Robson 59* Only 11 wickets have fallen in 7 sessions. :nono:

Sam Robson 50* (123 balls, 7 fours) :clap2: 117-1

100 partnership (235 balls) for Ballance and Robson :clap2: 112-1

Gary Ballance 51* (123 balls, 6 fours) :clap2: 108-1

Watchful and steady progress from new boys Gary Ballance 45* and Sam Robson 43* after 90 minutes of play this morning. England 100-1 (39.4 overs)

India 450-9 (158.1 overs) :clap2:

Mohammed Shami 50* (74 balls) :clap2: SMASHING Jimmy Anderson for SIX 100 partnership for the 10th wicket between Shami 50* and Kumar 50* :clap2: India 448-9

Bhuvneshwar Kumar 50* (133 balls) :clap2: India 442-9

Hopefully England will be batting later in this session... then we will find out how 'good' this wicket really is :)

TEA Day 2 India 433-9 Shami 39* Kumar 46* partnership 87

A record 10th wicket stand for India v England of 74 added by Shami and Kumar :clap2: