India v England, 4th Test Day 3 LIVE – Shoaib Bashir looks to back up stunning display as England eye early wickets

The 250-mark is breached by India and batting looks pretty comfortable for these two at present.

The batsmen are in sync now and switching the strike with quick singles. The penultimate ball was an edge from Kuldeep to third man but not in the air. India moving closer to a two-figure deficit.

Bashir forces the first uneasy moment for Kuldeep finding the inside edge of his bat but the ball runs away safely behind square.

Anderson is right on target straight away. Not troubling the batsman yet. Though both have a little panic, with each wanting a single when the other did not.

Bashir stays on and is hit confidently behind point for four by Kuldeep. Surely it is time for Anderson – and he is taking over from Robinson.

Robinson gets first use of the new cherry. Stokes still persisting with an open field for Jurel allowing him a comfortable single, albeit this didn’t matter for the first boundary of the morning which the Indian wicketkeeper played perfectly just past the stumps to the long on boundary.

Another tidy over from Kuldeep and the new ball can now and will be taken. Calling Jimmy, England needs you again.

The first of two no balls from Robinson brings up the fifty partnership from 137 balls. Not really acceptable to be overstepping so much when bowling in the 120s.

Another maiden from Bashir. He is giving them nothing easy to score from.

England perservering with an in-out field for Jurel for Robinson, gifting him a single to allow him to bowl at Kuldeep – a plan which doesn’t look like working at present.

Another good over from Bashir, just the single coming off it with Kuldeep particularly looking a little more uncertain playing him this morning.

Ollie Robinson takes the ball at the other end and he gets the penultimate ball of the over to rear up off a length to surprise Jurel, hitting him in the ribs, before going for a leg bye.

Bashir takes the ball and is bowling around the wicket running in diagonally in front of the umpire in the manner spinners used to do – but few do in modern cricket. He is right on target and takes a maiden with Kuldeep just playing defensively.

Thanks for joining our coverage of the third day of the fourth Test which India begin still 134 runs behind England as they resume their first innings.

TNT Sports expert Alastair Cook was full of praise for England bowler Shoaib Bashir, who took four wickets in an impressive showing in the fourth Test against India.

Bashir, who had only played four games of first-class cricket before the tour, dismissed Shubman Gill, Rajat Patidar, Ravindra Jadeja and – most crucially – Yashasvi Jaiswal to help keep India to 219-7 at the end of play.

“We’ve got to give a huge amount of credit to the selection panel,” Cook said on TNT Sports. “To pick a guy that had only played four first-class games before going on an England tour.

“They haven’t tried to fit square pegs in round holes, they’ve gone: ‘What do we need? We think we need tall spinners. We’re copying the Indians’ success… Axar Patel bowling it into the wicket. Who are our tall spinners?’

“They picked Tom Hartley and Bashir, and if you’d have [asked] a lot of cricketers who the spinners were going to be, you wouldn’t have picked those two.

“Whoever made the big call on selecting both those two should take some credit, because it’s very easy to bash selectors when they get it wrong. But when they get it right, they deserve some credit.”

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