India, July 25 -- For nearly 60 overs on Day 3, Washington Sundar was nowhere in sight, even as England's right-handers milked India's pacers and left-arm spin with increasing ease. Stuart Broad, speaking during the lunch break on JioHotstar, voiced what many had begun wondering aloud about where the off-spinner who'd picked four wickets in the first innings at Lord's was. The calls to bowl Sundar grew during the second day itself, when the opening duo of Ben Duckett and Zak Crawley put India under instant pressure with a quickfire 166-run partnership.

"All around Old Trafford, everybody had been saying, 'Where is Washington Sundar, why are we not seeing him?' They were 300/2 and we hadn't seen the off-spinner, he got four wickets in the...