England vs India as it happened: Alastair Cook falls at the last after Virat Kohli's brilliant century
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Virat Kohli's masterclass century defied England and dragged India back into the contest on a gripping second day of the first Specsavers Test at Edgbaston.
Sam Curran (four for 74) made a sterling home bid for the headlines, with three wickets in eight balls during a titanic first hour of the afternoon - and England were well-served too by Ben Stokes and James Anderson.
But Kohli (149) was an unstoppable force - after two dropped chances - as he banished memories of his miserable maiden Test tour to this country four years ago - when he averaged 13.4, with a top-score of 39 - as he compiled his 22nd Test century in an India total of 274 which contained no other innings above 26.
Kohli's one-man show meant a home lead of only 13 after the tourists' last two wickets added 92 - and when Alastair Cook was bowled for the second day in succession by a Ravi Ashwin off-break, for a duck this time, England reached stumps nine for one second time round.
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Pandya beginning to settle a little now too.
Stokes and then Broad test him outside off once more but he's equal to the task and milks a handful off both.
Curran is warming up and it looks like he'll be on to replace Stokes shortly.
Curran was simply brilliant this morning and deserved his trio of wickets.
He's back at it immediately as he gets one to nibble off the seam and past Kohli's outside edge. The Indian skipper played at that one too.
A single sees Pandya facing and he clips the last ball of the over, a hooping inducker, through mid on for four.
Jonathan Liew at Edgbaston:
It feels like India have done the hard work here. The steam has just about cleared from that electrifying hour after lunch, and this was around the point in England's innings (40-ish overs) when the ball stopped swinging for India, and Root and Bairstow started to get going. Kohli and Pandya can score quickly, and with the superb Ashwin to come in at No8, India could yet get a lead.
Sky note that Stokes, perhaps surprisingly, is the man who is getting the most bounce out of this slightly soft Edgbaston wicket.
He's getting 93cm of bounce which is a full of 20cm more than the next best, Ishant Sharma.
He's certainly hitting the pitch hard as ever and he steams in again as he strains to prise one of these two out.
He throws a succession of deliveries outside off before Pandya pounces on a slightly straighter one for three down to mid on.
Curran strikes again! The Surrey man fires in a nasty inducker that beats Pandya all ends up striking him flush on the boot.
For some inexplicable reason he reviews but, yes, as expected, it's knocking all three out and England have their sixth wicket.
India 148-6 with Ravi Ashwin wandering out to the crease.
Drop! Stokes thinks he has Kohli but Malan, again, at full length shells it at second slip.
Looking on the replay it would've been a ripper to be fair, but he thinks he should have snaffled it. Stokes does too.
That's two lives England have given the Indian skipper now. How much will they regret them come stumps?
After splattering Pandya's toes Curran has a taste for inswinger and begins testing new man Ashwin's reflexes.
He's equal to it, however, and also collects four runs for his trouble through third man.
Two more off the last of the over and that's tea.
Woof. What a session.
So let's try and unpack all of that.
Three wickets, three dropped catches and an lbw appeal overturned on review for good measure.
But Test cricket is boring, right?
Stokes and Anderson bowled out of their skins immediately after the break with Stokes collecting two wickets before Curran, the hero of the morning, returned to get a fourth of the day.
Got all that?
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