India, June 22 -- That three excellent sessions don't win a Test was learnt the hard way when India lost seven wickets for 41 runs after Rishabh Pant scored his seventh Test hundred in the second day of the first Test at Headingley, Leeds on Saturday.

Jasprit Bumrah kept India in the hunt with three wickets, starting by bending the ball outrageously to send Zak Crawley back quickly, but Ben Duckett and Ollie Pope responded with an aggressive counterattack that saw them add 122 runs at nearly five runs per over.

Duckett was dropped twice before Bumrah finally snapped him up to end that threatening second-wicket stand. But Pope too was dropped and he used that lifeline to race to his ninth Test hundred, helping England chip away at India'...