The middle day of any Test match is regarded as the moving day, which often produces a decisive swing in pendulum. Events unfolded at a rapid pace on Sunday, the third day of the first Test at Headingley, but almost till the very end, it was hard to say who of England or India was in greater control.

The stars of the show were Jasprit Bumrah (5-83), India’s talisman who took a fourth five-wicket haul in his last six Test appearances, and Harry Brook, who rode his luck until he finally ran out of the same commodity, heartbreakingly dismissed for 99. But while these two dominated the action, there were others in the spotlight too, and not necessarily for the right reasons.

England’s Harry Brook is dejected on being dismissed for 99. Pic/Bipin Patel