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England dominated the first two sessions and India looked in all sorts of trouble before Pant (101 off 118 balls) suddenly decided to catch the opposition by the scruff of their necks

Root’s team surrenders momentum as Axar, Ashwin help hosts dominate Day One.

Washington Sundar was the other spinner to bag a wicket to make it eight for the three slow bowlers. Pacer Mohammed Siraj, who was preferred to Umesh Yadav for this Test, took the other two wickets.

England had chosen to bat after winning the toss, with Root hoping that they could put as many runs on the board before the pitch would start assisting spin.

Kohli's men aim to realise their World Test championship dreams of meeting Kiwis in Lord's

India won the day-night third Test by 10 wickets inside two days to take a 2-1 lead in the four-match series.

He played a perfect fiddle to Ravichandran Ashwin in the second Test to turn the result in India’s favour.

“Loved watching Axar Patel bowl. He was able to just hit the shiny side of the ball and get a few to go off the wicket," he said.

Rohit attributed his sublime first innings half-century to the positive intent that he displayed during the day-night third Test in which England got thrashed by 10 wickets

Axar, playing in just his second Test, scalped five wickets on the second day of the day-night Test. This was Axar's third five-wicket haul in a row as he had scalped six in the first essay

Visitors shot out for 112; Rohit Sharma stands firm as India reach 99/3 on Day One.

Wicket-keeper batsman Rishabh Pant, all-rounder Axar Patel and pacer Bhuvneshwar Kumar also returned to a fresh-looking squad.

There were questions raised about excluding Kuldeep Yadav. The cricket pundits hit out at the team management for not going ahead with the chinaman bowler, especially after Nadeem failed to make an impression.

This time, though, Jadeja's absence from the first two Tests due to a thumb fracture will mean India will have to pair either one, or two

Virat Kohli, Hardik Pandya, and Ishant Sharma have made their way back into the squad

The fifth pacer's slot in Test matches may go to Siraj, who has done well in longer version for India A and his Ranji Trophy side

Both CSK and RR have failed to live up to the expectations so far and are placed sixth and seventh on the points table in the eight-team competition

Shikhar's wicket was important but we dropped him quite a number of times, says CSK skipper

This century was his third consecutive 50+ score in the tournament and he said he was always in good nick even before these three good knocks.

Chasing 163, the defending champions overhauled the target with two balls to spare and claimed the top spot in the points table with five wins from seven matches