For about 80 minutes on Saturday, India built assiduously on the wonderful platform established on Day One. Through their captain and his deputy, they kicked on from 359 for three and breezed past 400, raising realistic prospects of a tally well in excess of 500. Then, against the run of play, Shubman Gill holed out in the deep against off-spinner Shoaib Bashir, and the wheels came off spectacularly at Headingley. At stumps, England were 209-3.

India collapse

Having bossed the opening day’s exchanges, India found themselves pushed to a corner on the second day of the first Test against England. Numerically, they are still in front but a collapse of seven for 41, that saw them self-destruct from 430 for three to 471 all out, seemed to have done a number on them, despite a record seventh Test hundred from Rishabh Pant.