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38th over: India 267-5 (Hardik 58, Krunal 2) Mark Wood returns with seven overs left for him to bowl, which, of course, is now mathetmatically impossible. The change does the trick though, just a couple of runs off him here, culminating in a shout for caught behind off Hardik. It’s turned down and they don’t review – the noise is ball on pocket. Wood doesn’t look to be in good shape walking to fine leg. It’s a hot day – maybe that’s all it is? Hope so.

37th over: India 265-5 (Hardik 57, Krunal 1) Another fine contribution from the younger Pandya, to his 50 with a rare single after 36 balls in the middle. He returns to his usual mode by the end of Rashid’s over, launching a shorter ball over the midwicket for SIX. You cannot drop short to this man. And that’s the end of Rashid for today, finishing with 2/81 for his ten. Far from his best day at the office but he did pick up both set openers, Rohit with a beauty.

What a catch! Pant edges a full ball he’s trying to flick to midwicket, Buttler having to change course, sticking out his left glove and it sticks! Entirely against the flow of play, ending an over where three wides were followed by two boundaries, but all that matters to England is seeing the back of the Little Blaster. He made 78 from 62.

36th over: India 256-5 (Hardik 44)

35th over: India 243-4 (Pant 73, Hardik 44) Magnificent from the Little Blaster, down to Rashid and striking him with a straight bat over his head for SIX of the best. Industrious running either side of the big blow makes 13 from the over. And there’s still 15 over to go.

“India could get a proper cricket score here,” suggests Phillip Haran. “450 anyone?” Well, they doubled their score from 35-odd overs on Friday. In saying that, it was from a far slower start. But 400 is on if these two are still batting in an over, no doubt about that.

34th over: India 230-4 (Pant 61, Hardik 43) Slammin’ Sammy Curran returns to the attack having bowled three overs (0/19) off the top of the innings. And it only takes Rishabh two balls to find a route to the rope, clipping with supreme timing to midwicket from a delivery that was on about off-stump. Not much a seamer can do about that. He’s around the wicket to Hardik later in the over who is right to assume a short ball is coming, makes an early move across his stumps and hooks with ease for four with fine leg inside the circle. They’ve put on 73 from 59. Mark Wood is on the field, by the way, the team media manager confirming that in the WhatsApp group.

33rd over: India 221-4 (Pant 56, Hardik 39) Back-to-back quiet overs for England after the onslaught of 30 runs in the two before it. Just a couple of singles off Rashid, who has two still to bowl. As for Mark Wood, it remains unclear from the TV whether he’s on the field.

“Adam.” Hello, John Starbuck. “Hi. ‘The little blaster’! Love it. Your own coinage?” It is! Can we, the OBO crew, make it stick?

In the women’s T20 we were looking at in Hamilton earlier, an Ash Gardner masterclass proved the difference, Australia victorious.

32nd over: India 219-4 (Pant 55, Hardik 38) Topley was the one England bowler able to stem the flow of boundaries in the final stanza on Friday and he does the same here, just three singles from his varied collection of well-directed slower balls. Drinks!

“Pondering Abhijato Sensarma’s ponderings I would suggest the wonderful thing about sport is that by its nature it takes us out of realism anyway,” writes Ian Copestake. “To speculate is to try and get it back within a box by imposing prediction.”

31st over: India 216-4 (Pant 54, Hardik 36) Rashid replaces Livingstone, which makes sense – they’ve got to get these two out with skill, and their legspinner has plenty of it. And the respect is there early in the over, especially in response to the wrong’un, but as soon as Rashid gives it some air Pant gets that back knee of his on the ground to slog sweep him for SIX! That’s a 44-ball half-century for the little blaster, the last blow his third trip over the ropes.

30th over: India 206-4 (Pant 46, Hardik 34) Topley is back and isn’t getting a chance to settle, Hardik jumping across his stumps before cutting hard past point. A fine combination of premeditation and execution. A handy fightback from the left-armer follows, culminating in a back-of-the-hand slower ball, leaping at Hardik’s glove.

“Hi Adam.” Hello, Colum. “I was just pondering how these months of cricket have come full circle with bowlers dominating the tests and now batsmen having the upper hand in the ODIs. Clearly, it’s partly pitch dependent but it’s so refereshing to see Adil Rashid fox the batsmen on what is a fantastic batting wicket. If spin bowlers have the skills, as Rashid or Ashwin clearly do, to move the ball both ways with googlies and carrom balls in their armoury, even supreme batsmen like Rohit, Darwan or even the mighty Kohli can be outdone.”

Yep, I’m all in on spinners dictating terms in white-ball cricket.

But remember, Guy, India only have Krunal Pandya, having left out Kuldeep Yadav in favour of an extra seamer, T Natarajan.

29th over: India 198-4 (Pant 44, Hardik 28) Buttler backs Livingstone to go again – might that be related to Wood’s fitness? It’s legspin at Hardik, so he uses the crease again to cut a four. Fine batting. Oh, half a chance to finish? He went to his left, Pant’s miscue went right. In the end, the best the spinner could manage was getting a boot to it, but it didn’t subsequently go to hand.

“This mini-collapse has given Pant, Hardik and Krunal the opportunity to bat more than a collective 25 overs,” says Abhijato Sensarma. “Given that they aren’t the sort who die wondering – and this pitch doesn’t assist a lot of batsmen-related deaths – has England shot itself in the foot? And I’m being over-optimistic, perhaps, but what is sporting speculation if not an escape from the constrains of realism?” A mixed blessing, that’s for sure.

28th over: India 190-4 (Pant 43, Hardik 21) Ignore what I said about these two having hard work to do before exploding, they’re having none of that! Hardik Pandya, perhaps the cleanest striker in the game, jumps at Moeen and plonks him over his head for SIX. Roar power. Later in the over, he jumps back and pulls with the spin over midwicket for SIX MORE. And why not make it THREE SIXES? Yup, Hardik rides the wave and nails the perfect slog sweep – 20 rows back and 20 from the over! The pressure transfers back to England: how to dislodge these ridiculously talented hitters?

27th over: India 170-4 (Pant 42, Hardik 2) Rishabh Pant isn’t going to let a third-spinner pin him down – absolutely no chance. Down the track, he’s given it the kitchen sink, clearing the long-of rope. He didn’t get all of it, but with his hands and muscle, it still goes the journey. Next: another dance before creaming him more conventionally through cover for four. Into the 40s with a bullet.

26th over: India 160-4 (Pant 32, Hardik 2) Another ideal over from Moeen, set and forget for his captain. He now has 1/19 from six.

25th over: India 158-4 (Pant 31, Hardik 1) Two runs and a wicket from Livingstone’s first over in international cricket – what a handy introduction, well played Jos Buttler. In a game where India have dropped a spinner for a seamer, England have used three in the first half of the innings. At this stage on Friday, they were 112-2 and ended up piling on exactly double that, 224, in the second 25. A major difference then being that these two, India’s best hitters, were coming in for happy hour with the foundation laid and they’re a fair way off that point in this innings. Work to do.

“Morning Adam.” Hello, Stephen Brown. “One might have thought that after the last match, India might have been trying to take inspiration from England’s performance. Instead they appear to be imitating their performance from the first match of the series. Interesting tactic.” I don’t think the plan was to lose those wickets, to be fair! But anything is possible with Pant in the game for longer.

Oh dear, what’s Rahul done there? A full toss from Livingstone, fresh into the attack, and he’s been helped in the direction of Moeen on the fielding circle at short fine leg, dragging in a fine diving catch.

24th over: India 156-3 (Pant 30, Rahul 7) India’s third 50 was their slowest so far, coming in 52 deliveries. And some news from TV: Mark Wood is off the field. I’ll keep my eye on Whatsapp for an update from the England camp. Moeen again now and Pant is again going through the air into the legside but doesn’t middle it, landing just in front of Sam Curran running in off the rope. Five singles.

23rd over: India 151-3 (Pant 27, Rahul 5) Goodness me, Rishabh Pant! How to descibe that boundary. Okay. He triggered forward at Rashid’s full delivery before returning to his original stance by the time the ball arrived. When he did, he elected to flick, off balance, behind square. Somehow, contact was sweet enough to make it all the way, bouncing just a foot inside the rope. We saw him do something similar to that in the T20s – he’s something else, this guy. Later in the over, the scoop! Executed perfectly, four more.

22nd over: India 141-3 (Pant 18, Rahul 5) Moeen has 1/12 from his four, yet to concede a boundary. Spin to win, and all that.

21st over: India 137-3 (Pant 16, Rahul 3) Rishbh Pant was never going to allow terms to be dictated at him for long, getting that back pad down to the turf before smacking Rashid for SIX over long-on. That’s gone a long way, the first big’un of the day. Supreme confidence.

20th over: India 128-3 (Pant 8, Rahul 2) Moeen again doing his job, racing through his set, just two singles off it. “Morning Adam.” Hello, @AndyInBrum. “At what point do we suggest that Kohli has a problem against spin?” I’m sure that will be debated in the aftermath of this series. However, I wouldn’t call it a problem – I’ve seen him play some masterful innings against high-class spin – it might be that this is in his head a bit at the moment, though?

19th over: India 126-3 (Pant 7, Rahul 1) How this game is changing by the over, just five risk-free runs here. The boundaries are no longer the target for India as they enter a brief rebuilding period. This is why I like 50-over cricket. Meanwhile, Tim de Lisle has been crunching the numbers – he’ll be with you later on for England’s chase. “Spinners in this series, at the fall of Kohli’s wicket: before today 2 for 489, average 244; today 3 for 29, average 9. And India have left one of theirs out.” And here’s that Kohli dismissal.

18th over: India 121-3 (Pant 3, Rahul 0) A long time between ODI breakthroughs for Moeen – 340 deliveries, twitter tells me – but he did a job for England in the middle overs on Friday, going for just 47 in that spell of ten overs, and he’s made a massive contribution here skittling Kohli. England have taken three wickets in four overs.

Moeen skittles Kohli! That’s turned big – he was looking to carve it out through cover off the back foot but it’s hit his leg stump! Sure enough, he stares at the pitch for a while but it makes no difference.

17th over: India 118-2 (Kohli 6, Pant 1) Pant has been elevated above KL Rahul, presumably to maintain the left/right combination. It’s also a luxury India have after their brisk start. And based on what we saw from the little superstar on Friday, this could be a lot of fun.

Rashid has both of the openers in a couple of overs! Dhawan was down the track and planning to whip but it dipped just enough on him to alter his stroke, ending in a chip back to the bowler.

16th over: India 113-1 (Dhawan 64, Kohli 5) Moeen is on and through his first over in the space of 90 seconds, giving up just three singles. Just what England need in support of the attacking Rashid.

“Morning Adam.” Morning to you, Brian Withington. “With surfaces like these for the ODIs I am wondering whether we might have seen three five day test matches earlier on this tour? With the depth of India’s spin and batting I expect they might still have prevailed, but it would have been good to have had more cricket to watch and, of course, OBO to follow. In passing, a friend asks whether you are any relation to the lucky guy who features with the brilliant Geoff Lemon in an unmissable podcast called The Final Word? Rumour has it that there might be a new YouTube channel too.”

Pune for a Test Match is a very different proposition to Pune in a white-ball game, it must be said. And I’ll take your friend’s kind words (and your links!) as a comment. Thank them, though.

15th over: India 110-1 (Dhawan 62, Kohli 4) And after all that love, Rashid drops short to Kohli first up and he slots it away for four through midwicket. Gosh, and he makes it two stinkers in a row to finish the over, down the legside. Did Kohli glove it for a couple? Nope, it’s called a wide so he has to rebowl it. Better to finish. Nevertheless, a successful over, which England so badly needed.

And here’s that Rohit dismissal. Drink it in.

They’re taken drinks. I hope there will be a social media video of that wicket to share with you soon. Very special bowling.

What a gem! The perfect googly, skipping between Rohit’s bat and pad before hitting off-stump. The stuff wrist spinners dream of.

BIG SHOUT FOR LBW! Rashid believes he has Dhawan with the wrong’un. Buttler agrees – it’s sent upstairs. But the on-field decision is correct, the ball was (just) pitching outside leg. NOT OUT!

14th over: India 100-0 (Rohit 37, Dhawan 59) Just what India needed after being sent in: a 100-run stand from their experienced opening pair. The request from captain Kohli was for more runs in the first half of the innings after tallying 112 on Friday to the 25-over mark (before smacking double that, 224, in the second half) and this is exactly what these two are doing. Dhawan added to his boundary count here, cutting Stokes away for behind point. Super batting.

I’m enjoying the wide shots of the stadium between overs. Takes me back to a most eventful three-day Test I covered at Pune in 2017, Steve O’Keefe taking 6/35 in both innings to stun the hosts in the first match of what turned into a classic series. Happy times.

13th over: India 92-0 (Rohit 35, Dhawan 53) Buttler needs a breakthrough so he turns to Adil Rashid – sound logic, he’s been fantastic on this tour. Ooh, and an appeal for leg before first up when Dhawan misses the googly, but it pitched outside leg. He doesn’t get away with a shorter ball later in the over though, Dhawan leaping back to pull hard through midwicket for four to bring up his half century in 42 balls. He’s hit nine boundaries – going beautifully.

12th over: India 84-0 (Rohit 33, Dhawan 47) Stokes didn’t have a lot of work to do with the ball on Friday but he will do here with Curran and Topley both going around in the power play and neither spinner seen as yet. He starts well, singles only, but then his bouncer is called for a wide – again, too high. Stump mic would suggest the all-rounder isn’t thrilled with the decision of the square leg umpire. And sure enough, it is the seventh delivery when the boundary ball arrives, Rohit carving a wider offering square of third man for four.

11th over: India 76-0 (Rohit 28, Dhawan 45) The field is back but Dhawan doesn’t mind, pulling Wood’s short ball through midwicket into the gap for four. He’s at his best today. Ooh, and another boundary to finish, albeit straight off Rohit’s outside edge through third slip. It completes another bulky over, 11 coming from it.

10th over: India 65-0 (Rohit 24, Dhawan 38) Buttler turns to Stokes for the final over of the power play, immediately banging it in short of a length – his happy place. Just four singles – they’ll take that. After adding 39 and 42 with the field up in games one and two, they’ve done a nice job turning it up a notch or two in the decider.

9th over: India 61-0 (Rohit 22, Dhawan 36) Wood gets the treatment now too, Dhawan timing him past point, racing away to the rope. It prompts a change of direction from the England quick and it does the trick until the final ball, when Dhawan is back on the attack out to deep midwicket, kept to two by a diving Liam Livingstone.

8th over: India 53-0 (Rohit 21, Dhawan 29) Topley stays on and it doesn’t pay off for Buttler, Dhawan over cover for one boundary (albeit without much control), then clipping a straight ball for another. Ohhh, make that a third – a delightful cover drive, tasty batting. And a fourth boundary to finish, Rohit tucking into a low full toss, flicking it away with ease. 17 off the over. They’re away.

7th over: India 36-0 (Rohit 17, Dhawan 16) Yup, Wood it is. And he’s straight up to 140kph – indeed, he hits that very mark on the radar with his first three deliveries. That can’t be easy to do, bowling at precisely the same speed three balls in a row? Anyway, that point of fascination acknowledged, Rohit deals with the full and straight approach with a straight blade of his own – a maiden. Good cricket.

“Such an interesting collection of series,” says Phil Withall of England’s two months in India. “Both sides have players capable of changing the outcome of a game, nothing is certain. Love it.”

6th over: India 36-0 (Rohit 17, Dhawan 16) Short, wide, cut, four – Topley can’t bowl there to Dhawan. That makes four boundaries from the last seven deliveries. The left-armer misses outside the tram-tracks next, a second wide in quick succession. But he bounces back well, stringing together five dots at the left-hander. Stating the obvious, but England need a spark here. Mark Wood, anyone?

“Morning Adam!” Hello, Michael Robinson. “Cheers as ever for the OBO. But got to say I was annoyed this morning by flipping British summer time. Looked at my clock, thought to myself “got ages of lying in bed before the action starts”, check the Guardian and they’re already going!”

I arrived at the same realisation last night at 11:30pm as I polished off an episode of This Is Us (my guilty pleasure), realising that it was, in effect, half past 12. But, as we know, it’s short term pain for considerable long-term gain – bring on those long summer nights.

5th over: India 31-0 (Rohit 17, Dhawan 12) Curran undoes his good work so far, giving Rohit one right in his swinging zone, over long-off for four. Stand and deliver. He overcorrects next up, on the pads and flicked away – two boundaries in a row. A bouncer later in the over is called a wide – too high. And Dhawan gets in on the fun to finish, lifting a very wide ball over point for four. It wasn’t a pretty shot – no footwork, coming off the end of the bat and just clearing the diving Malan at point – but it makes 15 from the over.

4th over: India 16-0 (Rohit 8, Dhawan 7) Encouraged by this bit of early swing, Topley misses the mark with a full ball to Dhawan that doesn’t hoop, helped away to the fine leg rope. But the left-armer bounces back with a beauty to finish his over, beating the outside of the blade. Almost the identical delivery that he dismissed the left-hander with on Friday, come to think of it.

3rd over: India 11-0 (Rohit 8, Dhawan 3) Good start this from Sam Curran, drawing a false stroke from Rohit in his first over and now getting through his second at the cost of just one run. A skiddy, accurate bumper at Dhawan to finish, which he leaves alone.

2nd over: India 10-0 (Rohit 7, Dhawan 3) The classic Rohit cover drive: barely a backswing, all timing – that’s our first boundary of the day. Other than that, Topley maintains a disciplined length at the Indian superstar opener, just back of a length. He goes a fraction fuller later in the over, making a fine diving stop in his follow through. Some movement to finish, back at the right-hander. A lot to like about the way Topley has returned to this England team.

1st over: India 5-0 (Rohit 2, Dhawan 3) A sharp single to midwicket first up, but Dhawan was safe even if the Bairstow throw was on song. The left-hander is off the mark from his first ball too, easing a misdirected delivery to fine leg. “A belting surface,” says Rob Key as we get a look on spidercam. Kohli hinted that they would go harder in the power play compared to the approach in the first two games – we’ll see. Ooh, a leading edge from Rohit, but he gets a single to cover for it. Now back to Dhawan, who pushes a couple past point.

The players are on the field. Sam Curran has the new ball in his hand, Rohit Sharma taking the strike to begin. Here we go! PLAY!

“Why do England always win the toss?” asks Tejal Joshi. That I can’t tell you, but Kohli’s 2/12 record during this tour is quite the run. If you’re interested, he won the flip for the second Test at Chennai and the second T20 at Ahmedabad. I wonder where this ranks? Is there a list floating around detailing the worst run a captain has had?

Fascinating discussion on Sky about the pressure on India’s players. Dinesh Karthik is telling a few tales from his time in the team. During the 2007 World Cup, when they were bundled out in the group stage, some players were so worried about their safety that they flew to England for a couple of weeks before returning home. DK has been outstanding on commentary throughout the white-ball leg of this tour – genuine insight to this Indian team. “The only privacy you get is after you retire. It doesn’t exist when you play. It is a luxury in India. But the other way you look at it, the amount of love you get everywhere you go, you can feel that.”

A long trip for Matt Parkinson. As noted by my press box colleague Matt Roller, who has been pushing his case for inclusion.

We have two OBOs going right now. New Zealand’s women have set Australia 131 in their first T20 at Hamilton, Amy Satterthwaite top scoring with 40. Join Geoff Lemon (in a second tab!) for the chase.

India: Rohit Sharma, Shikhar Dhawan, Virat Kohli (capt), KL Rahul, Rishabh Pant (wk), Hardik Pandya, Krunal Pandya, Shardul Thakur, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Prasidh Krishna, T Natarajan.

England: Jason Roy, Jonny Bairstow, Ben Stokes, Dawid Malan, Jos Buttler (capt & wk), Liam Livingstone, Moeen Ali, Sam Curran, Adil Rashid, Reece Topley, Mark Wood.

As expected, Mark Wood returns for Tom Curran. No change to the batting list, so Sam Billings must still be managing that collarbone injury. Kohli – who has won just two of 12 tosses while England have been in the country – says he would have bowled too. He likes the pitch, says it is hard. T Natarajan for Kuldeep Yadav is India’s one change. So, just one spinner with the left-arm quick coming in.