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THIRD TEST ESSENTIAL

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ENGLAND: Cook, Jennings, Root (capt), Pope, Bairstow (wkt), Stokes, Buttler, Woakes, Rashid, Broad, Anderson. INDIA (probable): Vijay, Dhawan, Pujara, Kohli (capt), Rahane, Pant (wkt), Ashwin, Pandya, Ishant, Shami, Bumrah. Start: 11am. TV: LIVE on Sky Sports Main Event and Sky Cricket from 10am. Highlights on Channel 5 at 7pm. Radio: BBC 5 Live Sports Extra.

Umpires: Chris Gaffaney (NZ), Marais Erasmus (SA). TV umpire: Aleem Dar (Pak).

Match referee: Jeff Crowe (NZ). Pitch: Looked green one day out with probabilit­y of cloud cover. Make sure you turn up on time today, it could be lively.

Weather: Cloudy for the most part but some sunny intervals. Crucially, it should be pretty dry and another three- or four-day finish 75°F (24°C) is likely.

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