India backed up Shubman Gill's phenomenal 269 with three cheap England wickets on a dream day of test cricket for the visitors at Edgbaston on Thursday. After Gill's 8 1/2-hour innings led India to 587 all out — its highest score in England in 35 years — pacers Akash Deep and Mohammed Siraj found life in a seemingly lifeless pitch to reduce England to 25-3 with three edges into the slips cordon.

Gill’s magnificent knock, along with half-centuries from Ravindra Jadeja (89) and Yashasvi Jaiswal (87) helped India post a mammoth 587 on the board after they were put in to bat by England. The hosts later ended Day 2 of the second Test at Edgbaston on 77/3.

India are calling the shots again and now is the time to close it out. It will take time and the good news for India is there is a lot of it remaining in the second Test.