England vs India 5th Test live: score, updates from day 5

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7 days ago

It's busy, busy, busy at The Oval. People have turned up even though they won't see much cricket. I am not surprised; everyone wants to drink in the last bit of this series. It feels a bit sad it's coming to an end really. Although I think the players need to have a fortnight in bed. They're all cooked.
Play on day four was dramatically halted due to rain and poor light, with England finishing on 339 for six and 35 runs short of victory. Fans left under grim skies in south London, and it looks very similar at the moment, but crucially it is dry. So what is the forecast saying for today?
According to the Met Office we can expect a mostly cloudy and breezy morning, turning windy as the day wears on. There may be a couple of showers in the afternoon, with increasing rain moving across London before eventually clearing.
In July 1984, England's Paul Terry suffered a broken arm against West Indies after a short delivery from Winston Davis in the fourth Test at Old Trafford. England needed 23 runs to avoid the follow-on and Terry returned to the crease with his arm in plaster and hanging in a sling. He was clean bowled by Joel Garner off the second ball he faced, scoring nought… and that was also the end of his Test career.
Could we see some of this from Woakes today?
Elizabeth Ammon
A very good morning from The Oval for the 25th and final day of this incredible Test series. It shouldn't take more than an hour for this to be decided one way or the other.
It's grey and cloudy, but there's no rain.
The Oval is sold out and it will be interesting to see how many people who bought tickets will actually come along. The players from both sides deserve for it to be a cracking atmosphere and for this series to have a fitting end.
How many times did this match spin 180 degrees on Sunday? How many times did the balance of power lurch one way then the other? England began the day with an impossible run chase, that then became a possible run chase, and then became are very achievable run chase, and then a bona fide much anticipated victory with a tilt at history and then . . . where were we again?
Now we are locked into one of those American election nights when everybody has matchsticks holding their eyelids open and the outcome in certain states is 'too close to call'. For England to score the winning 35 runs does not seem much, certainly with four wickets in hand. Yet one of those wickets isn't really a wicket at all, because it belongs to Chris Woakes, who has dislocated a shoulder. It would be madness for him to bat. He would have to do it one-handed. Even running would be difficult.
• Read more from Martin Samuel
How much more can you take? After 24 days of cricket, we still do not know how this dramatic series will end. Following another tumultuous day, one of the best this historic ground can have seen, a late cloudburst brought play to an end with England 35 runs short of victory and India requiring four wickets to draw the series. The sight of Chris Woakes in his whites, arm in sling, summed up the drama.
You wouldn't bet against Woakes being required to do a Colin Cowdrey, who walked out with a broken arm to save a Test in 1963, given how unpredictable this series has been. That was exactly how the fourth day went, too, with brilliant hundreds from Joe Root and Harry Brook taking England to the brink of victory, before this never-say-die India team found a second, third and fourth wind.
• Read Mike Atherton's report from a dramatic day four
Welcome to our coverage of the final day of the fifth Test, and the series, between England and India. A dramatic fourth day has left things perfectly poised at The Oval.
England need 35 runs to win and seal a 3-1 series victory. India need four wickets for victory and a series draw.
We're set for a crazy finish here, one that could even see Chris Woakes and his dislocated shoulder called upon to bat. Follow along with us.