IND vs ENG, 1st Test Day 1: Spinners, Yashasvi Jaiswal put India on top after England's 246
Indian players during day 1 of 1st Test vs England (Source: BCCI)
India ended day 1 of the first Test against England in Hyderabad with their nose aheadon Thursday (Jan 25). Yashasvi Jaiswal was batting unbeaten on 76along with Shubman Gill (14). The home team currently trails by 127 runs after bowling out England for 246 runs in their first innings. In reply, India posted 119runs for the loss ofskipper Rohit Sharma's (28) wicket which was taken by Jack Leach.
Earlier, England won the toss and elected to bat first on a pitch which spun, although not viciously, in the first session itself. England, however, had expected a similar pitch as they had named three spinners in their playing XI with Mark Wood being the lone pacer.
England started well as openers Ben Duckett and Zack Crawley added 58 runs for the first wicket. India's ace spinner Ravi Ashwin broke that partnership and the visitors kept losing wickets at regular interval afterwards. England went from 58/0 to 60/3 before Joe Root (29) and Jonny Bairstow (37)added 38 runs for the fourth wicket to take England into the lunch on day 1 at 108/3.
Skipper Ben Stokes then came to crease after Bairstow's wicket and scored 70 runs before being the last wicketto fall. England were eight down at tea with Stokes at 43 and the skipper came out all guns blazing after that. His hitting eventually took England to near 250 before Jasprit Bumrah bowled him with a peach of a delivery.
For India, spin duo of Ravi Ashwin and Ravindra Jadeja took three wickets each. Ashwin, who's closing in on 500 Test wickets, managed 3/68 while Jadeja's figures read 3/88. Apart from them, third spinner Axar Patel also chipped in with 2/33 in 13 overs while Bumrah took rest of the two wickets to finish on 2/28 as Mohammed Siraj went wicketless.
