India, July 4 -- 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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WHAT A DIFFERENCE 50 hours make! Two days and a session ago, the obituaries of Indian fast bowling were already being written in the knee-jerk world of cricket punditry (both the mainstream and social media sort). With Jasprit Bumrah sitting out the second Test and Washington Sundar being preferred to Kuldeep Yadav, doubts were raised (including in this very column) about the efficacy of India's current bowling attack.

Within the first 10 balls of the third day's play, however, England's skipper and former skipper were back in the pavilion and the team w...