DRINKS BREAK
10:13 PM: Eng 50/2 after 18 overs
overpitched delivery through wide mid-on and Ballance gets four more
Ballance facing Varun Aaron
10:09 PM: Eng 46/2 after 17 overs
Short ball pulled away to midwicket for a boundary to end the over
Kumar to Bell with his 9th over
10:05 PM: Eng 42/2 after 16 overs
Aaron to Ballance, 1 wide, sprayed towards the slips at 89mph, Dhoni snaffles it... but Rod Tucker signals a wide
Bell squeezes the ball through backward square playing across his pad for a singleAaron to Bell
09:59 PM: Eng 40/2 after 15 overs
maiden over
Kumar to Ballance
09:55 PM: Eng 40/2 after 14 overs
He goes full and straight, sweetly timed from Bell, clips this off his toes and the ball rebounds rapidly away through midwicket for four
Ian Bell comes in next
England 36/2
Gone! Aaron strikes. The man in form Alastair Cook pulled the short ball to deep backward square and Pankaj Singh takes a good catch. He goes for 17.
Aaron to Cook
09:49 PM: Eng 36/1 after 13 overs
Kumar to Ballance, 2 leg byes, slightly short of a length and on Ballance's ample hips, attempted glance and it deflects down to fine leg off the padding
09:44 PM: Eng 34/1 after 12 overs
wide ball.
Good starting pace for Aaron with a 142 kmph delivery
Varun Aaron comes in to bowl now to Alastair Cook.
09:38 PM: Eng 33/1 after 11 overs
This time he pulls the short ball and gets a couple
Ballance goes down the ground for FOUR. He is in good form from second test at Lord's.
Cook gets one more in the covers region
Kumar continues
09:34 PM: Eng 26/1 after 10 overs
appeal for lbw. Struck high on pads and batsmen gets a single behind square. 1 leg bye
Ballance gets off the mark. He gets three runs towards mid wicket region
He gets a single
Cook facing Pankaj Singh
Gary Ballance comes in next for England
09:29 PM: Eng 21/1 after 9 overs
Bowled him! Robson tries to leave that one but it came back in and struck the off stump. He goes for 6.
Kumar to Robson
09:24 PM: Eng 21/0 after 8 overs
Robson gets over the ball and steers a single through cover-point
Robson to face Pankaj Singh
09:20 PM: Eng 20/0 after 7 overs
maiden over
Kumar to Cook
09:16 PM: Eng 20/0 after 6 overs
Cook played it late and gets a single
Good shot straight down the ground for four
Cook facing Pankaj Singh
09:12 PM: Eng 15/0 after 5 overs
Another outside edge and fall well short of Vijay at first slip. Dhoni could have gone for it too.
Outside edge and ball went between the slips to third man boundary
Kumar to Robson
09:08 PM: Eng 11/0 after 4 overs
Cook played it to square leg for a couple to end the over
Robson gets off the mark with a quick single towards mid on
He dabbed the ball to leg side for one run
Cook facing Pankaj Singh
09:03 PM: Eng 7/0 after 3 overs
Cook watches it on to the bat and dabs into the midwicket area for a single
Kumar to Cook
inside edge, runs through square leg for one more to Cook.
Down the ground and Cook gets a boundary towards long on
Pankaj Singh to Cook
08:54 PM: Eng 1/0 after 1 over
Full delivery played by Cook behind square for a single. He gets off the mark. Robson is on strike now
Three slips and a gully for Cook
Bhuvneshwar Kumar has the ball Cook takes the strike
Sam Robson and Alastair Cook to open the innings for England.
So the players are back on the field for third session of the day.
