Broad hopes for an encore against Kohli

When India lost 1-3 here four years ago, Kohli averaged 13 in the five Tests - a sequence that began when Broad removed him for one and eight in the first game at Trent Bridge. “We'll look at footage from 2014, when we really limited the amount of runs he got,” said Broad. “He's improved a lot as a player since then and learned a lot from that series. After that, he's got runs in Australia and South Africa, and scored a lot against us in India.”

“You've got to stay away from his pads early which sounds ridiculous, but it is like Jonathan Trott. People said go to his pads early, then suddenly he had hit 20 balls and he's in. I will probably lean away from him being a lbw candidate early, because that gets him going and once he gets in his conversion-rate is fantastic.”

Broad also believes England's Test team can benefit from the time some of its batsmen have spent in the middle against the left-arm wrist-spin of Kuldeep Yadav. Meanwhile, England coach Trevor Bayliss has suggested Adil Rashid could follow the example of Jos Buttler and win back his Test place on the basis of his white-ball form.

Rashid has taken a break from the red-ball game with Yorkshire, but he was England's best bowler during the recent 2-1 one-day win over India and, in the decider at Headingley, produced the ball of the summer - a sharp-turning leg-break to flummox Kohli.

With the hot weather set to continue, and pitches likely to get drier, spin bowling could decide the five-Test series. And the look of astonishment on Kohli's face after he was bowled in Leeds has encouraged the notion that Rashid could repeat the trick in the five-day game.

And Bayliss, who could do with a Test series win after winter defeats by Australia and New Zealand, plus an underwhelming 1-1 draw at home to Pakistan, is open to the idea of welcoming Rashid back into the Test fold.

“This year is probably the best we've seen him bowl,” said Bayliss. “He's bowled well in one-day cricket over the last few years but his control and his consistency this year have been top-class.” While Rashid's 10 Tests have brought him 38 wickets at a costly average of 42, his ability to produce wicket-taking deliveries - as Kohli discovered - is valuable in any form of the game.