India v England: Alastair Cook suffers bizarre run-out dismissal as tourists build commanding lead on day three Jonathan Trott, after making two ducks in this series, was the one who did accumulate happily while Cook was at the other end. The captain himself was rather scratchy yesterday, nothing like so fluent as on the second evening, and Trott made most of the morning running. Then Trott was out, pushing forwards at Pragyan Ojha and caught behind much as he had been in Ahmedabad, and Cook followed soon afterwards to a schoolboy error. As Cook had been on the field for more than half the match at this stage, either captaining or batting or both, he can be forgiven. But if he had done it at Bedford School, his games master might have made him write out 100 times: "When I am the non-striker I must ground my bat." Pietersen, blameless, clipped a ball to square-leg, where Virat Kohli picked up and shied at the far stumps - a procedure designed to keep the non-striker on his toes. But instead of grounding his bat, Cook lifted it in the air and let the ball pass underneath his bat to hit the stumps. There was little comfort in the knowledge that it was the first time Cook had ever been run out in a Test or a first-class match. He dragged himself off, appetite unsated after 377 balls. Since taking over as England Test captain - from Andrew what-was-his-name? - Cook has scored 547 runs in his five innings. Pietersen nearly dragged on the first ball he faced from Yuvraj Singh, when MS Dhoni decided to test Pietersen's patience, but he survived a sketchy start to cream the first two balls after tea for four. The jam and icing on the cake, however, never followed. Of England's remaining run-scorers, Matt Prior was the most impressive, Ian Bell the least, and Samit Patel in between, but nearer Prior than Bell. Prior disguised England's lengthy tail by ramming home the advantage in the evening shadows in a frolicsome stand of 56 with Graeme Swann. Of India's persevering bowlers, Ravi Ashwin made a considerable improvement in his accuracy yesterday, not offering a regular "release ball," although his figures remained horrendous. But if the first half of this Test is any guide, England's bowlers will hit the deck much harder than their opponents and activate the uneven bounce that will make batting increasingly difficult on the last two days.