Siraj starts proceedings from the Football Stand End where Ravid Jadeja will get through plenty of work today. Crawley gets off strike firts ball with a thick inside edge, squirting to square leg as he jabs his bat down on a near-yorker outside off.
Ravi Sahstri informs us that Dilip Doshi was a great friend of Sir Mick Jagger. There’s a book in that.
Duckett gets up on his toes to steer a shorter one from Siraj through point for a single.
Because there’s so many fewer people in the ground, you can hear things out in the middle quite clearly. And after those first two balls, India’s fielders are very chatty.
Now the trumpeter plays his version of Jerusalem. Bumrah starts round the wicket to Duckett, fast and full and he plays with soft hands, blocking and nudging until Bumrah pulls his length back and Duckett punches it through the covers for four off the back foot. Lovely shot.
