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Virat Kohli (97) and Ajinkya Rahane (81) abstain from driving to help India post a respectable 307 for 6 after being put into bat by England in 3rd Test.

The Test series is at a vital tipping point: this team has been selected for the first three Tests and if you go down 0-3 in a five-match series, suddenly it might seem the world is against you.

With the morale of several players shattered, Ravi Shastri and Virat Kohli need to do some hand-holding to restore belief.

As Director of Cricket at Surrey, Alec Stewart helped in producing players like Sam Curran and Ollie Pope, who have been excellent against India in the ongoing Test series.

Jimmy Anderson’s bowling was all fingers & wrist in 1st innings. In second, amid relatively less helpful conditions, his brain took over.

Mic Hunt, Lord's head groundsman for the last 49 years, called time on his career after the second Test between India and England.

Some of the calls the skipper Virat Kohli took in the second Test were questionable, and it influenced outcome of the match.

What’s Virat Kohli without his manic intensity? We shall find out in the next Test after the skipper suffered lower back issues at Lord's.

Muddled team selection and batting inadequacies leave India 2-0 down inside seven days of cricket; Virat Kohli’s back problem compounds misery

Jonny Bairstow (93) misses ton but helps Chris Woakes (120*) reach his as England pile misery on Indian bowlers on Day 3

Burnley, a town in northern England which had seen better days in the past, is where James Anderson grew up and cut his teeth in his younger days.

On a gloomy day, England seamer James Anderson spells doom with a five-for; Indian batsmen come up short again.

The first day of the second Test between India and England was called off due to rain without a single ball being bowled.

Friends, who always had faith in England's Alastair Cook, paint the opener as a doting father and obsessive record-breaker.

Apart from skipper Virat Kohli, other batsmen betray lack of footwork and judgment on English strips, which they have to address.

"Are you nervous, Mr Ali?" That’s what Gary Ballance’s mother told Moeen’s visibly tense father, barely able to watch his son’s Test debut, four years back. With the all-rounder’s place in playing XI undecided for the Lord's Test, the ultimate Cricket Dad is getting restless again

Here are the takeaways from India's practice session at Lord's on Tuesday, two days before the second Test.

After doing the hard yards in Australia, Surrey's 20-year-old youngster Ollie Pope replaces an out-of-form Dawid Malan for the second Test.

Ace spinner R Ashwin goes back to his old style to get more body into play, while adding more loop to his bowling.