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Blimey. Are you the bearded wonder, Bill Frindall, in disguise?

Plus journeyman Liam Dawson to replace Ansari, back problems. Could this be the most "spinners" used in a Test Series by England? Moeen, Rashid, Ansari, Batty, Dawson and Root.

whoooooosh

**** knows. So Root I suppose. Bell-Drummond, who is in holiday mode? Me? You? Strauss? What a squad.

Hameed is coming home to have a plate put in his hand. Brave lad batting today and did so brilliantly.Great introduction to the Test scene.

Hameed.:clap2::bowdown: Looking back on this match has made me think long and hard about my liberal wishy washy opinions. I'm beginning to favour electric shock treatment. So many rash shots gave wickets away and a lot of dropped catches. Sit those players down, wire them up, replay the video...

At least it's not Duckett.

Over and out. Not yet. A quick 200 from Hameed and it's game on.

England moved up into second place in the ICC rankings this morning. What? All down to an antipodean result.

That explains it. I'm more an average guy or a mean guy than a ranker.

Haven't you got the averages wrong? batting bowling 34.00 and 39.44 Moeen Ali 55.31 and 24.64 Ravichandran Ashwin. 35.8 and 34.6 Ben Stokes There's only one winner.

Trivia. Moheen has now batted at all positions from 1-9 for England.

Interesting all rounder battle between Ashwin and Stokes in this Series. Ashwin has home advantage and turning wickets and batted in an a self assured manner. Stokes won't give up with the ball in his hand, had many catches dropped off his bowling, has held many catches and batted well and got a...

India showing us what we should have done yesterday. Very disappointing. TMS saying that there was an air of victory when we won the toss. Fans and players alike forgetting there was the small matter of getting 500 runs on the board. No need to let this thread get to page 3 though.

I'll get my coat........

Sorry for that. 87-4. Terrible session. England putting themselves in a position to having almost no chance of winning the series. All in less than 2 hours. We won the toss FFS. Bat out he green moist pitch for a few hours then pile on the runs. Don't give 3 wickets away.

Moheen has picked the off spin and smacked a 4 and 6 in two balls. Trivia. In his Test career he has now batted at all positions from 1-9, except no.3. His batting position for Worcestershire.

It's the Monty Panesaar morning. Root and Cook dismissed from shots Monty wouldn't even play.

Put the coffee on and 51-3. Root gone somehow and Cook caught of Ashwin's first ball as I renter the room. Pressure on.

Ashwin falls over the ball and let's it go to the boundary. He's doing a good Monty Panesaar impression at the moment.