Live updates from the final day of play at Old Trafford
95th over: India 250-4 ( Washington 31, Jadeja 13) Love Dawson’s dramatic follow through, he falls to his knees, hands over his face, Oedipus-like, as an outside edge frowm Washington flies through where second slip might have been.
93rd over: India 245-4 ( Washington 29, Jadeja 10) Jadeja smites four through long on, Jofra gets angry about the field placing, Stokes placates him by ushering a mid-on into place. Then Archer nearly bursts through Washington defences. All action.
93rd over: India 240-4 ( Washington 29, Jadeja 5) Dawson makes one spit out of the rought where it misses bat, and keeper, bouncing down to the rope. India won’t mind how they come.
“You wrote ‘ ,,,Bradman and Gavaskar – with the asterisk that not many teams play modern series that are five Tests long’ -writes Adrian Goldman. “but exactly the same caveat applies to Root and his number of runs. All the modern batters, including Sachin, play many more tests than those playing even up to the 80s, even those who played for 15-20 years. The only semi-unbiased metric is average, and that places Root just 6th on the England list, of those who played more than 50 tests.
