2nd over: England 6-0 (Crawley 0, Sibley 2) Siraj, tall, skinny, quick. He makes me nervous, not sure about Dom Sibley who picks up a couple of runs and four leg byes in between being beaten past the outside edge of his stolid bat.

1st over: England 0-0 (Crawley 0, Sibley 0) We see a shiny dark red orb in Ishant’s hand and mull over the news that this pitch might spin more one end than the other. Crawley ignores the first ball outside off stump and things are already better than the second innings in the last Test. Oh hang on a minute, the second ball swings in and slams into Crawley’s front pad. Ishant is sure, so sure, Kohli reviews – but it turns out the ball hits him high on the knee roll and passes over the top of the stumps. He gets hit on the glove to the last ball of the over but survives.


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