• Buttler makes 106 but hosts heading to Trent Bridge defeat
The margin of defeat will surely be massive but we do not yet know the exact numbers. A bizarre day’s cricket finished with England on 311 for nine, 210 adrift. At one point when Jos Buttler and Ben Stokes were in harness it seemed likely that there would be some meaningful cricket left on the final day. Then as England lost four wickets for 10 runs the motorway beckoned. Yet somehow Adil Rashid alongside Stuart Broad and then Jimmy Anderson survived for an hour so that Trent Bridge must open their doors again on Wednesday.
However we know the Indian victory will be emphatic – the forecast is fine – and the teams will reunite at Southampton with the series alive at 2-1 and the England team thoroughly chastened at a ground where they usually prevail. This has been retrograde performance by England and an inspired one by India, who have outplayed England in all three facets of the game; their bowlers were quicker and more hostile, the batsmen more adhesive and the same applied to the hands of their slip catchers despite a few blemishes.
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