India, July 5 -- Published during the lunch break in the UK, #MidMatchMemo delivers sharp analysis from the first session of play - and picks up where we left off the previous day.

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EVERY GREAT TEST MATCH is built on strong narrative threads, subplots and individual battles, and this, the second Test of the Anderson-Tendulkar Trophy has been chock-full of all of those. Best of all and provided the match goes the distance, there are still five whole sessions of play left at Edgbaston. Having ended the third day on 64/1, India emerged on Saturday with a view to put on a defendable target quickly enough to give its bowlers enough time to bowl out England a second time.

While what exactly constitutes defendable against this Ben Stokes-l...