That’s all for today. We’ll leave you with Ali Martin’s report. Night!
Ollie Pope’s reaction
Slow day. Very slow day. Credit to the way India bowled on a pitch that, after lunch, didn’t really offer loads. We wanted to make it happened a little bit quicker but that’s still a pretty solid score if we can kick on tomorrow.
There wasn’t much pace in the pitch. It felt like you really had to force it – usually in England you get reward for your cuts and your clips. Here even when you beat the infield it only seems to get for two. Still, a pretty solid day.
The outfield at Lord’s is pretty lush so hopefully we can keep the ball swinging for a long time as well.
They bowled pretty wide to me today so I knew the risk was to drive through the covers with the bounce early on. We knew batting would get easier so that was the plan [to play watchfully].
It didn’t rag today, I played a pretty average shot, but there was probably more turn than I expected even with the slope. It’s a dry surface so hopefully that’ll benefit us in the fourth innings.
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