Axar Patel comes into the attack, in place of Chakravarthy. Root picks a single first ball before the spinner fires it way down the leg side to Brook for five wides.
Brook inside edges the fourth ball before he takes a single to long-off and Root keeps out the last ball.
The first boundary off Jadeja, in his fourth over. The spinner drops short and gives width as Brook cuts it past point for a boundary before taking a single.
Root is beaten as he looks to work Jadeja across the line but the balls turns sharply to beat the right-hander and bounces over the stumps.
In the next over, Root gets his first boundary as he plays a confident reverse sweep off Axar past short thirdman for a four.
He attempts the shot off the next delivery but this time it goes to the fielder at point and he can't get the last ball away.
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