Stokes hails team's never-say-die drive and Woakes' bravery

Ben Stokes paid tribute to the bravery of Chris Woakes as a series during which players battled at various stages through broken feet and shattered fingers ended with a one-armed man at the crease, his other arm in a sling, enduring obvious agony as England fell seven runs short of victory.

- Simon Burnton

Stokes said: "That never-say-die, never-back-down attitude we've installed in the group nearly paid off. It was never going to be a question for him to go out there. He was in a lot of discomfort even running between the wickets.

"But we've had Rishabh Pant go out to bat with a broken foot, we've had Shoaib Bashir bowling, batting and fielding with a broken finger and then we had Chris go out there and try and get his team over the line with a quite recently dislocated shoulder.

"Before he went out I didn't get a chance to give him a tap on the back and say: 'Go well.' Coming off it's obvious what would have been said, just: 'Great effort, unbelievable.' He just shrugged his shoulder and said: 'I wouldn't do anything else."

Stokes, who was ruled out of the game with a shoulder injury of his own, pinpointed when Woakes went down on the opening day as the moment that decided the match - "It took, I don't know, half a second for a shoulder to pop out and everything just completely changed for us there" - but the captain admitted that the six catches England dropped during India's second innings had not helped.