There were several similarities between India’s first and second innings in the first Test at Headingley. A powerhouse top-order display, a singularly unedifying late-order collapse. And an extraordinary century from a special player.

Until Josh Tongue orchestrated a manic meltdown that included three wickets in a single over with the second new ball, Monday’s fourth day had been primarily about the fire of Rishabh Pant and the ice of KL Rahul, clearly relishing a settled place at the top of the order and his status as the elder statesman of the batting unit. Pant smashed numerous records on his way to becoming only the second wicketkeeper, after Andy Flower against South Africa in 2001, to score twin hundreds in the same Test, while Rahul’s ninth ton was his third in England, the most by an Indian opener in this country.

Wonderful Test match

All of this translated to a second-innings score of 364, leaving England needing 371 in a wonderful Test match that has swung one way and then the other. At stumps England were 21-0.