England v India Test Live: India take opening day honours at Edgbaston

Sport360 staff 21:36 01/08/2018
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  • England collapsed after Joe Root's run-out.

    Off-spinner Ravi Ashwin bowled opener Alastair Cook in the first hour before England fought their way to 83-1 after 28 overs at lunch. India hit back with a second wicket early into the second session with pacer Mohammed Shami getting the better of Keaton Jennings who departed for 42. The India pacer then had Dawid Malan trapped lbw soon after to reduce England to 112-3. Joe Root has since gone on to register another Test half-century as the hosts went into tea at 163-3.

    Jonny Bairstow then notched up his half-century in just 72 balls as England went past the 200-run mark. The England skipper missed out on a Test century once again after he was run-out by Virat Kohli for 80 runs. Bairstow joined his skipper back in the pavilion almost immediately after he dragged an Umesh Yadav delivery on to his stumps. The hosts’ woes were further heightened in the next over with Ashwin dismissing Jos Buttler for a duck to reduce England to 224-6. Stokes fell to the off-spinner soon after before Ishant Sharma removed Adil Rashid with the second new-ball.

    The hosts were batting on 285-9 when stumps were drawn at Birmingham.

    Joe Root chose to bat first after winning the toss in England‘s 1,000th Test match against India at Edgbaston. The hosts were as announced on the eve of this landmark occasion, the first of five Tests over the next six weeks, with Adil Rashid confirmed as their only spinner.

    India left out Cheteshwar Pujara, replacing him with KL Rahul after his run of poor form with the bat, and they too picked just one spinner – Ravi Ashwin unsurprisingly getting the nod.

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