🏏India tour of England 2025: 1st Test: England vs India - Day 5🏏 - Page 28

Kaushik with the latest: The hover now gets wings. More covers called up to keep the runup area dry

14:13 Local Time, 13:13 GMT, 18:43 IST: The rain has come and off go the openers. We were all ready to start. Siraj and Pant can't quite believe it as the Hover-cover comes on. India amble back inside much to their disappointment. We will have a break in play. Crawley and Duckett just crossed the cushions and walked a few steps before the umpires signalled for the covers. And the openers just went back.

The hover now gets wings. More covers called up to keep the runup area dry

Only the hover cover remains now. There's a rope being driven around to try and get any moisture that's settled into the outfield off. "We've heard about giving a long rope in cricket. This outfield is getting one... to dry it. And it's a matter of great interest to the crowd because as it passes through, the groundsmen jump over it" adds Kaushik.

Damn pitch outside

Crawley vs Bumrah

14 innings

233 balls

122 runs

Five dismissals

Avg 24.40

Here's Peter: "if you believed the hype, India only have one bowler. But if he keeps bowling balls like that, maybe that's all they need."

"Every ball is an event when Jasprit Bumrah is bowling!" yelps Srividya. "As amazing as that!"

Bumrah to Crawley, out Caught by Karun Nair!! That is absolutely unplayable! Call it magic, call it wizardry, call it other wordly because that is simply stunning from Bumrah. Crawley can only put his head down and walk off, nothing he could've done about that, absolutely nothing. Good length delivery angling into middle-leg, hit the deck and straightened considerably, turned him into an S and brushed a bit of the outside edge, then his back thigh and went straight to first slip. The angle meant that Crawley was looking to clip it into the leg-side, was caught in his crease and completely undone. He goes cheaply and India have early success! Crawley c Karun Nair b Bumrah 4(6) [4s-1]

Siraj is gifting too many runs

Bumrah has drawn seven false responses off his first 18 balls