England v India: third Test, day one – live!

Over-by-over updates from first day’s play at Trent BridgeThe Spin: sign up and get our cricket email each TuesdayAnd feel free to email Simon or tweet him @Simon_Burnton 2.55pm BST 44th over: India 158-3 (Kohli 40, Rahane 38) Rashid continues inching towards some rhythm, conceding three this time. No turn as yet. 2.53pm BST 43rd over: India 155-3 (Kohli 38, Rahane 37) Another fine duel we’ve got Anderson and Kohli into. Anderson stifles an appeal for lbw, because there’s an inside edge. Kohli glides a four past point. Anderson has a full-throated appeal, but gets no change.“I’d have to think hard about the best cricket book I’ve read,” says Boris Starling. ”But there’s no doubt about the worst: TESTKILL by Ted Dexter. It’s a murder mystery in which an Australian pace bowler is killed during the first day of a Lord’s Test match. One reviewer (sadly not named Malcolm Devon) got it pretty much spot-on when he said ‘the story staggers, stumbles, stutters and is stifled. Ultimately, when the methods and motive of murder are revealed, they are shocking only because they are intolerably insipid and unfair to the reader….. [though the book] perhaps compensates somewhat through rather detailed descriptions of lesbian love-making. Yes, it does boggle the imagination to think of Dexter writing the same.’” Continue reading…
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