What a Test match. A see-saw of a contest, absorbing throughout. Less of a one-man band when it came to batting, England held their nerve in the end.

Joe Root and the selectors had some tricky decisions to make, all of which turned out better than at times looked likely. First there was the question of who should stand at second slip as the game approached its climax.

On Thursday afternoon, which seems a lifetime ago, James Anderson was about to bowl the last ball of his 15th over. The score was 100 for five. Virat Kohli had struggled to 21. At one stage he had scored off only two of 37 balls that Anderson bowled at him.

Root hugs Rashid after the spinner, whose selection split opinion, dismissed Sharma ANTHONY DEVLIN/PA

In 2014, don’t forget, he had scored