Jadeja broke the 60-run opening stand between Keaton Jennings and Alastair Cook in the first session, and then came back in the final session to trap Ben Stokes in front of stumps.

From 133-1, England were reduced to 198-7 by stumps. And Jadeja said that was no easy task on an unhelpful surface.

“It was very difficult,” Jadeja said. “You’re not getting any help from the wicket on the first day, and the balls you want to bowl, you’re not able to execute.”

Brought in as a replacement for Ravichandran Ashwin, Jadeja did the job of blocking the flow of runs from one end and allowing the fast bowlers to prosper from the other. Prosper they did, as Ishant Sharma (3-28) and Jasprit Bumrah (2-41) picked up five wickets between them.

“I was just thinking that (Mohammed) Shami, Ishant and Bumrah were bowling well from the other end, they were beating the batsmen consistently and were bowling in good areas,” Jadeja said.

“I was just trying to ensure I didn’t give them boundaries either, because if the pressure is released from one end, it become easy for the batsmen.

“We believed that they’d panic and play false shots if the runs didn’t flow. And that’s exactly what happened.”