England vs India live: Score and latest updates from day four at Lord’s – The Telegraph

And Akash Deep has the ball from the Pavilion End. 
Zak Crawley is in the top 10 for most Test innings played as an opener for England. Why? I have no idea. Their averages:
Sutcliffe 61.10
Hutton 56.47
Hobbs 56.37
Boycott 48.16
Cook 44.86
Gooch 43.88
Trescothick 43.78
Strauss 40.85
Atherton 39.14
Crawley 30.10
Send offs, some outrageous shots and batsmen rapped on the gloves made for a totally absorbing session of intense, hard Test cricket that picked up from the fireworks of the night before but ended with India on top, seizing control of the game.
Bumrah sparked a docile pitch into life with a five-over spell of hostile, nasty fast bowling that required courage and luck to survive. Somehow he went wicketless but his team-mates benefitted at the other end.
Duckett played a poor shot to Siraj and there was some argy bargy as the England opener walked off. Pope was leg-before to a snorter from Siraj that nipped down he slope while Crawley survived the Bumrah bombardment but, inevitably, played a poor drive to Reddy’s gentle outswinger to be caught at gully.
Brook briefly took the attack to India with 18 off four balls in a flurry of boundaries but his ego took over. When India moved fine leg, he decided to hit it squarer and was bowled round his legs trying to sweep Akash Deep.
England hopes rest on Root, Stokes and Smith.
If I’m a bowler with an England badge on my shirt, I’m saying get me 220 with that bounce. 
There is precedent for teams to be bowled out for under 200 in the fourth innings of a Lord’s Test but the most recent is England’s skittling by India for 120 on their last visit here.
Incredible morning of cricket. India right on top after the wicket of Brook, which came in incredible circumstances, really. It felt absolutely vital that Root and Stokes made it through that final Bumrah, which they did.  
Now Bumrah swings one late that keeps going down the legside to rattle away for four byes. Root pokes a single off an open face through point and then Stokes, squared up by one angling into middle and nipping away, takes a leading edge and squirts through point for two.Stokes plats out the last two and makes it to lunch which used to be two gaspers and a Red Bull for him. Off come the bails.
India have bowled very well and though the pitch has been very favourable, Duckett, Crawley and Brook each were complicit in their own dismissals.
Put it this way. It has been a very good morning for India… and Jacob Bethell.  
Deep finds Stokes’ edge from round the wicket but his soft hands guide it down well in front of second slip who takes it on the half-volley. The last ball of the over hoops wildly past Stokes inside edge as he tried to slap it off the back foot, beats Jurel diving to his right and goes down to fine leg for four byes.
Kumar Sangakkara thinks England need 280-300. Michael Atherton thinks they would be confident of defending 240 given this is a much dryer and unpredictable pitch than the one on which South Africa chased down 280 to become world champions. 
Jasprit Bumrah, who has taken Root’s wicket 11 times in 16 Tests, the same number of dismissals as Pat Cummins, comes back on for a pre-lunch burst. It’s a testing over but Root keeps it out for a maiden, grafting hard for his side. 
The placement of the deep fine leg to stop him ramping encourages Brook to try to sweep a fast bowler and he is beaten for pace, bowled middle stump 13 minutes from lunch. Deep also celebrates wildly, screaming out his joy and jabbing the air with uppercuts.
‘Not Bazball, just arrogance,’ says Kumar Sangakkara. ‘Just flick it.’
It was a middle-stump half-volley. A middle-stump half-volley. A middle-stump half-volley! Why did Harry Brook do that? In the previous over he had creamed a middle-stump half-volley for four. Why not do it again?
Stokes plays and misses outside off.
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