POPE HITS BACK WITH CENTURY

RISHABH Pant and Jasprit Bumrah lived up to their box office billings but England battled back with ball and bat to finish on 209-3 against India in the first Rothesay Test.

- DAVID CHARLESWORTH

Pant became India’s third centurion of the innings with a swashbuckling 135 - following first-day tons from Yashasvi Jaiswal and Shubman Gill - but India collapsed from 430 for three to 471 all out.

A clatter of wickets either side of lunch on day two was followed by a near hour-long rain delay, after which Bumrah lit up a gloomy Headingley with an astonishing new-ball burst under the floodlights.

Zak Crawley perished in the first over of the reply, looking to play to leg but dumbfounded by late movement as he edged to slip, while Bumrah might also have accounted for Ben Duckett and Ollie Pope.

As it was, the pair weathered the onslaught - in which nigh-on every Bumrah delivery was an event - and tucked into India’s other bowlers to lift England to 107 for one at tea, still trailing by 364.