Phew! Never in doubt 😁 Excellent Test match Drop Crawley and / or Pope for the next one.

That team would get relegated

Squeaky bum time this looks like it’ll be close

Solid, experienced Championship player, like Baath. We don't have many, and they're both gone, and unlikely to be replaced. They will be missed. At a struggling, badly managed club like ours, I don't see why anyone cannot see this is a big deal.

Don't tempt fate 47er, this is England playing and we're experts at snatching defeat from the jaws of victory Edit: Woakes strikes just before lunch, eight down

India seven down, 100 runs from victory. Tense, thrilling, could go either way. Test cricket at its finest

Give me the nod and I'll open the new season's relegation thread

In the circumstances of the game with 10 minutes to lunch, and England looking to build a steady recovery, Brook got out to the same brainlesss shot as his previous two shots. Now 6 down.

Three down. Another Root rescue act required. He can't keep carrying this team. Some just aren't good enough against the best Test bowlers

Enthralling day's cricket at Lord's...... tough battle between bat and ball as two teams fought hard and gave no quarter for the upper hand. Proper Test cricket and no slap and tickle I thought England were 100 runs short but we'll see what happens. Bumrah is an extraordinary bowler, averaging about 19. He's got Root out so many times now and did it again today.

That was proper Test cricket today, England carefully building the innings through Root getting his head down and not playing any silly shots supported by Pope and then Stokes. Pope remains a flawed player, playing daft shots outside the fifth stump when he went in. Crawley is in last chance saloon for me, averaging 30 and about only 18 in the last year of so.

Pope dropped and lucky to survive 1st ball Since then it's been proper old school cricket, scoring below 3 an over

He’s charging down the wicket, trying to play T20 shots. When you’re trying to build a big total in a game lasting 5 days. He might get a big score, he might not. Either way it’s not cricket as we know it (Jim)

Root failed badly in the last Test. You’re only as good as your last game

The above shouldn't happen. Amateurish, people not qualified for the jobs they're doing, not doing their job properly, so eventually businesses fail. Plain wrong. Happens right across the country and the economy. Why are we surprised that the same is happening at Ewood?