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Karun Nair was greeted by three slips, a gully, a short leg and a leg gully, the most popular man in north London.

Another inside edge off the bat of West Indies skipper Roston Chase then popped up into the grateful hands of Sam Konstas at short leg.

Bennett could not repeat his heroics, trapped leg before by Gus Atkinson, while Craig Ervine lobbed Tongue to short leg to leave Zimbabwe 30-2, still 270 behind.

There was the Root drop off Stokes and, later, he fended Tongue to the swooping Pope at short leg off a no-ball.

In a shrewd move from Stokes, Pope had only just been posted at short leg when Ervine obliged with the simplest of catches.