England 129-4 (35 overs) and 387 vs India 387 | Scorecard
Bumrah with a new over. Two slips and a wide gully are in place.
Stokes flicks the first ball behind square on the leg side for a single.
Root defensively plays the next one to gully. No run.
Appeal from India for a leg before but they choose not to review it. Too high it seems.
A dot to end the over. Just a single come off it.
Siraj is back into the attack and Stokes prods forward and drives the full delivery outside off to mid-off. No run.
A single through wide cover follows.
Root then shoulders his arms and leaves a 137kph delivery wide outside off.
Root plays and misses the next ball before defending the fifth delivery.
Another dot to end the over. Just a single off it.
Akash Deep goes off the field as Bumrah starts his new over. Fuller delivery outside off and Stokes pushes it gently to mid-off. No run.
He keeps out the next three deliveries too.
Two more dots follow. Second maiden over for Bumrah.
Siraj with a new over and sends in a low full toss outside off and Root tries to push it onto offside but is beaten.
A single through deep square leg follows. Stokes then pushes full delivery to mid-off and charges down for a quick single.
A dot later, a full delivery outside leg kisses Roots pads and runs away to the boundary (4 runs, leg byes).
Appeal for leg before on the final delivery, but the impact was not in line. 6 runs come off the over.
Stokes then nudges a back of a length delivery from Bumrah into leg side. No run.
He block the next delivery solidly before edging one through gully for a boundary.
He defends the next delivery while the fifth ball hits him on the pads as he tries to flick it.
A dot to end the 4-run over. England's lead has swelled to 129 runs.
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