IND vs ENG Live, Day 3: Will Jasprit Bumrah get help from other end?

7 - Test hundreds for Pant in 76 innings, the most by a designated wicketkeeper for India in Test cricket surpassing MS Dhoni's six (in 144 innings). This was Pant's third Test century in England equalling the most by a designated wicketkeeper in an away country alongside Les Ames in West Indies and Andy Flower in India.

3 - This was the third instance of Pant reaching his Test century with a six, all three off English spinners (Adil Rashid at the Oval in 2018, Joe Root in Ahmedabad in 2021, and Shoaib Bashir today). For India, only Sachin Tendulkar has done it more often (six times) while Rohit Sharma also did it thrice.

5 - Jaiswal became the fifth Indian player to score a century in his maiden Test innings in England after Vijay Manjrekar, Sandeep Patil, Sourav Ganguly and Murali Vijay. Jaiswal now has a hundred in his maiden Test appearance in three of the four visiting countries he played in having scored 171 in West Indies and 161 in Australia.

11 runs scored by Jaiswal of his tally of 101 runs came on the leg side - by far the lowest for him among his five Test hundreds. Each of his four previous three-figure knocks have had 35% or higher share of runs on the on-side.

"Outrageous. He plays the numbers game beautifully, plays the way he wants. He will block for a bit and then shift gears," Ravi Shastri said on Sky Sports.

"He has his own computer and only he knows how it works. That's his USP. That's what puts bowlers under pressure and makes him box office, a real entertainer and a match winner," Shastri elaborated about Pant's approach.

Ollie Pope came into this match following his 171 in last month's one-off Test against Zimbabwe.

But he was still under scrutiny given his average in 13 previous Tests against India was a modest 24.60 -- a figure inflated by his magnificent 196 at Hyderabad last year.

Pope, however, has long enjoyed the confidence of England captain Ben Stokes and coach Brendon McCullum.

"He probably couldn't walk out in tougher conditions, Jasprit running down the hill with the lights on," England opener Ben Duckett, who made 62 on Saturday and put on 122 for the second wicket with Pope told reporters after the close.

"There's no better feeling than that, scoring a hundred against that attack after coming out at 4-1.

"You can see that in the way he celebrated but it didn't just mean a lot to him, it meant a huge amount in the dressing room as well."

Hello and welcome to our live coverage of the five-match Test series between India and England.

The first Test at Leeds is nicely poised. While Bumrah continued to create chances, India, unfortunately, didn’t hold on to them, but England riding on a spunky century from Ollie Pope has made a remarkable comeback after restricting India to 471. England in reply are 309 for 3, still trailing by 269 runs.

Day 3 is called as a moving day in Test cricket. So put on your seatbelt as we are heading towards another fascinating day of Test cricket.