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1st over: India 1-0 (target 209; Rahul 1, Rohit 0) Jimmy Anderson, who last bowled a loosener sometime in the summer of 2014, starts the innings with a high-class over to KL Rahul. The third and fourth balls were beauties that straightened past the outside edge. Root thought the latter had taken the edge and ran forward in celebration, only to realise nobody else had appealed.

That England innings was 85.5 overs of topsy-turvy Test cricket joy. There were lots of useful contributions on both sides, and two immense performances: Joe Root made a masterful, emotive 109 before becoming one of five men to fall to the devastating Jasprit Bumrah.

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