England take a 2-1 series over India into the fourth Test at Old Trafford, with Ben Stokes' men in line to complete an impressive series win over the tourists.

Hello and welcome to Telegraph Sport’s live, over-by-over coverage the fourth Test between England and India at Old Trafford. A five-Test series is one of sport’s great endurance challenges, for spectators never mind players, yet it can still have a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it quality.

England may have irritated some of their opponents with their words off the pitch, with the sense they were trying to save Test cricket in a flurry of sixes or wanted to chase 600 for the hell of it,...