FIRST TEST RATINGS
ENGLAND
RORY BURNS 3 Began with his fourth Test duck in 2021, then fell cheaply again. Runs against New Zealand feel like an age ago.
DOM SIBLEY 6 Hung around for five-and-a-half hours in total — but managed just 46 runs and four fours. He looks more strokeless than ever. Dropped another slip catch, handing a costly reprieve to Rahul.
ZAK CRAWLEY 5 Now has 10 single-figure scores in 14 Test innings since his 267 against Pakistan last summer. Still vulnerable outside off stump.
JOE ROOT 9 Head and shoulders above his team-mates, totalling 173 — 40 per cent of England’s runs off the bat. Without him, they would be 1-0 down.
JONNY BAIRSTOW 6.5 Twice added useful runs with his captain but scores of 29 and 30 left a sense of unfulfillment — especially in the second innings, when he nailed a pull straight to deep square leg.
DAN LAWRENCE 5.5 Clearly talented, but too fragile, and now has four ducks in his first 15 Test innings. Naively played round his front pad on the fourth afternoon.
JOS BUTTLER 5 Hadn’t played red-ball cricket since early February, and it showed during an 18-ball first-innings duck. Shouldered arms in the second.
SAM CURRAN 6 A pair of useful counter-attacks (he hit England’s only six), but wicketless in conditions that ought to have suited his left-arm swing.
OLLIE ROBINSON 8 Bowled beautifully and spoke honestly about how his life has changed since his unsavoury tweets. Looks like a banker for years to come.
STUART BROAD 5.5 Another who paid for a lack of cricket. Needs rhythm, but hadn’t bowled in match conditions since July 14.
JIMMY ANDERSON 8 First-ball dismissal of Kohli may go down as the moment of the summer. And if England had held their slip catches, he might have had another Test five-for at Trent Bridge.
INDIA
ROHIT SHARMA 6 Mis-hook triggered India collapse, but otherwise played neatly.
KL RAHUL 8 Held India’s first innings together, demonstrating a technical purity beyond English counterparts.
CHETESHWAR PUJARA 4 All at sea in the first innings, and lucky to survive on the fourth evening. Pressure is growing.
VIRAT KOHLI 3 Having not lost his wicket to Anderson for seven years, he fell to him at the first time of asking.
AJINKYA RAHANE 3 Could have been run out once before he fell that way for five, but has credit in the bank.
RISHABH PANT 7 Is there a more watchable player in world cricket? Batted with gusto — if all too briefly — and kept brilliantly.
RAVINDRA JADEJA 7 Bowled tidily and helped India to an important lead with a lively half-century.
SHARDUL THAKUR 7 Made good use of the conditions, cleverly trapping Root and Lawrence.
MOHAMMED SHAMI 7 Took three wickets in the first innings, but went off the boil.
JASPRIT BUMRAH 9 Superb. Took nine wickets and probably deserved more. Yorkers to the tailenders were just what England lacked.
MOHAMMED SIRAJ 6 Never dull — even Kohli had to tell him to calm down — but figures of 3-132 didn’t quite match his self-belief.