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93rd over: India 389-3 (Gill 139, Pant 80) A nice try from Woakes, a curving slower yorker that Pant reads and blocks. England are starting to get funky with their bowling and their fields; as I type there’s a solitary wide slip and a very silly mid-off for Gill.

Woakes’ over includes two no-balls, which is really unlikely him. “A sign of tired legs” said Stuart Broad on commentary. Gill grinds a bit of sodium chloride into the wound by dabbing the eighth ball of the over to third man for four. This is a quiet masterpiece of an innings. If anything he’s timing the ball even better today.

“What a pleasure this morning to hear Mike Atherton’s and Nasser Hussain’s commentary so far this morning,” writes Brian Baldwin. “Competent, reflective, occasionally humorous but ABOVE ALL, often entirely silent. Watching a Test match does not need wall to wall chat, for the sake of the ego and misplaced idea that a commentator must talk non-stop.”

Quite. Barry Davies, my favourite commentator of all time, said one of his best pieces of commentary were the 10 minutes before the Euro 96 semi-final between England and Germany at Wembley. He said almost nothing, because how he could add to that atmosphere?

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