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What a catch! That’s the end of a brilliant Test by England, understandably when partners were running out, but Nitish Kumar Reddy went for a brilliant game.

Buttler had already hit one six to start over, but an attempt to repeat the dose failed to reach its intended destination. It takes some catching though, Reddy sneaks in from the square leg boundary and takes it off the turf like a warthog.

Frustration for Jos Buttler as Gus Atkinson just can’t produce a single. Axar Patel cleverly doesn’t allow him flight to work and Atkinson is very, very happy when one slips past his pace and just avoids the off stump.

Four bytes bring the English hundred…but Atkinson is gone! Heavy hand, eyes off the ball, and in come the bails with England’s number eight done as a tipper. Another dies after chewing 13 balls.

Last one for Ravi Bishnoi. Gus Atkinson can’t pick him, perhaps unsurprisingly. Jos Buttler’s single is followed by four points and a single, which India will not mind conceding as they keep the England skipper from attacking.

4-0-22-0 pretty neat analysis for a knuckle turner.

England bat deep – Adil Rashid will be at 10 or 11 and has more first-class hundreds than his skipper. Gus Atkinson feels reasonable about this situation, although he can’t beat the cover with a sweet kick at the end of a very neat return to attack by Axar Patel.

Oh dear! England is really in the mud.

Jamie Overton has never enjoyed being judged in order, the Surrey all-rounder more of a seamer than a master of the middle seam. A big hoick goes up the chimney and down into the hands of Nitish Kumar Reddy, safely under the stumps.

As long as Jos Buttler stays, England have hope. The skipper continues to look a class apart, picking his moments to guide Ravi Bishnoi through the offside gap twice in the over, first off the front foot and then off the back. A side grip keeps him in possession of the shot.

Trouble and strife for England with eight overs to go. Jamie Overton has been batting them in the BBL, but these are quite different circumstances to a rather higher caliber of spin.

Goes for deep square leg! Jacob Bethell throws his head back as the agonizing knock comes to an inevitable end.

He just didn’t look comfortable today. Bowled in by Ravi Bishnoi and Varun Chakravarthy, it ends up being a no ball, really, that catches him, Hardik Pandya turns his fingers over it as he hammers a short ball into the surface which Bethell pours down Abhishek Sharma’s gullet.

Hardik Pandya returns with a slower bouncer that Jos Buttler has been waiting an age for, pulling around the corner enough to rraise your club with 34 balls. The captain beats with everyone around him struggling – but there’s still a lot to do.

I wondered if India might have regretted not picking an extra seamer when Arshdeep Singh bowled him at the corners earlier, but their spinners do the trick through these middles, putting clamps and rattling through their deliveries to give England no time to think. Buttler and Bethell, indeed, seem to be in rebuilding mode, working some singles from Ravi Bishnoi’s second set of sixes.

Buttler is just a few away from his half-century and goes for a swing attempt as Bishnoi bowls one up but only manages to bottom edge to short fine leg. He will reject the strike by wanting to quit.