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by Timothy Abraham

  1. Steven Finn
    Former England fast bowler on BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra

    Phil Salt takes the bait from Axar.

    First ball goes for six, but this is slower and wider.

  2. wicket

    WICKET

    Salt c Arshdeep b Patel 70 (Eng 158-5)

    Axar Patel outfoxes Phil Salt next ball, though.

    The India left-arm spinner cannily tosses it up, holding the pace off, and Salt throws the kitchen sink attempting to smash it into next week.

    A top edge spoons up to Arshdeep Singh at point.

    Salt does a jump of frustration.

  3. 6 runs

    Eng 158-6

    Fetch that.

    Big helping of bottom hand from Phil Salt and he clubs Axar Patel over long-on for six.

  4. Eng 152-4

    Varun Chakravarthy manages to keep the boundary count down in the remainder of the over.

    Phil Salt on strike.

  5. Eng 149-4

    Sam Curran with the perfect riposte to Ben's number crunching.

    An inventive flat-batted drive down the ground brings him four off Varun Chakravarthy before pinching a single.

  6. How's stat?!

    Ben Jones
    CricViz analyst

    Sam Curran's death hitting has not been great for England. From 237 balls faced in the last five overs of the innings, his strike rate is only 141 - solid, but not exceptional. Curran may need Will Jacks to do the heavy lifting at the back end.

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    Sorry, what was it Jack and David said at 17.39 about Phil Salt? A very good job he's doing out there today.

    Paul in Taunton

    Lots of salty comments about Phil Salt - well he's started to pepper the boundary

    Gregory in London

  8. Steven Finn
    Former England fast bowler on BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra

    Salt was thrashing at it earlier.

    Now he's into his innings, he's timing the ball nicely.

  9. Eng 144-4

    Handy from Phil Salt who again steps across and flicks Arshdeep Singh off his heels behind square for four.

    Salt flashes at a wider one - his bottom hand coming off the bat - to pick up a single and keep the strike.

    Five overs to go.

  10. 6 runs

    Eng 137-4

    Arshdeep Singh with three singles to start the over before Phil Salt steps across his stumps and heaves the left-arm quick into the stands for six.

    England need a late surge to get up near the 200 mark. Vaibhav Sooryavanshi will be eyeing up these shorter boundaries, you would imagine.

  11. Eng 128-4

    Arshdeep Singh returns with six overs to go.

  12. Deep Dasgupta
    Former India wicketkeeper on BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra

    A very very welcome 50, on a tough surface.

  13. 50 runs

    Fifty for Salt

    Phil Salt raises his batGetty Images

    Phil Salt brings up his half-century with a single via a cut shot to the deep point fielder on the boundary.

  14. Eng 125-4

    Harshit Rana, who still has one over to bowl, is held back so we'll have to wait a little longer to see his hat-trick ball.

    Axar Patel into the attack for India.

  15. Deep Dasgupta
    Former India wicketkeeper on BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra

    He should have got a hand to that.

    You expect Shivam Dube to stop it.

  16. Eng 122-4

    Emphatic from Sam Curran, who pulls the final ball of Prince Yadav's over through mid-wicket for four.

  17. Eng 117-4

    Lots of salty comments about Phil Salt early in his innings, but he's going to be key for England now you feel.

    Salt moves to 47 with a crisp pull into the leg side for four as he picks up a pace-off delivery from Prince Yadav.

  18. Deep Dasgupta
    Former India wicketkeeper on BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra

    It's an instinctive shot - see ball, hit ball - but it didn't come off.

    Suddenly the complexion of this game has changed.

  19. wicket

    WICKET

    Banton c Varun b Rana 0 (Eng 111-4)

    First- ball duck for Tom Banton, attempting to lift Harshit Rana over deep third but cannot get the distance and is caught.

    Did Banton simply not see Varun Chakravarthy down there?

    Rana on a hat-trick in his next over.

  20. Deep Dasgupta
    Former India wicketkeeper on BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra

    It holds in the pitch just a little and gets the bottom of the bat.

    He never looked like dropping that, Sooryavanshi.