England vs India, First Test, Day 3: 5 Talking Points

Ashwin shines with the ball

Ashwin was terrific with the ball once again

There is a reason why former Indian greats stress enormously on current players featuring in county cricket. It is because adjusting to English conditions eventually has a big bearing on performances later on.

One player who will agree to that line of thinking and that player is Ravichandran Ashwin, who was simply brilliant in the third day of the Test match from the first ball.

Guile, accuracy and critically, the drift, all fell in place for the off-spinner on the third day and it resulted in him picking up figures of 21-4-59-3 and a match haul of 7 for 121.