India vs England 4th Test Day 1: Highlights

A high-on-confidence Indian side take on England in the do-or-die fourth Test at The Rose Bowl, Southampton on Thursday. England lead the five-Test series 2-1.

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A high-on-confidence Indian side takes on England in the do-or-die fourth Test at The Rose Bowl, Southampton on Thursday. England lead the five-Test series 2-1 

As it happened:

# Stumps Day 1: India 19 without losing a wicket after 4 overs. Trail England by 227 runs with 10 wickets remaining there.

# India 19-0 after 4 overs.

# Openers Rahul Lokesh and Shikhar Dhawan are at centre for India. James Anderson starts proceedings with Stuart Broad for England.

# Indian bowlers starts proceedings after hosts bold out for 246.

# England 246 all-out in 76.4 overs.

# Wicket!!! Jasprit Bumrah stuns Stuart Broad who departs with 17 runs. This was Bumrah's third wicket. England is 240/9.

# Stuart Broad is in.

# Wicket!!! Adil Rashid LBW baller Ishant Sharma. Returns with 6 runs. This is the second wicket for Ishant. England has no reviews left. There was a huge appeal from India and umpire took few second before declaring it an OUT. England 177/8 after 64.3 overs.

# The partnership between Curran and Moeen is broken with this wicket. Moeen goes for a slog sweep and gets on a top edge and Bumrah runs forward and takes a good catch. England 167/7.

# Wicket!!! Moeen Ali returns with 40 runs. Ashwin was the baller and the catch was caught by Bumrah.

# Indian bowlers maintained their stranglehold despite an unbroken 53-run stand for the seventh wicket between all-rounders Moeen Ali and Sam Curran as England reached 139 for six at tea on the opening day of the fourth Test. Moeen (30 batting) and Curran (27 batting) carried a rescue act after Mohammed Shami's (2/38) double blow left England tottering at 86 for 6 at one stage. The second session proved to be slightly better for the hosts as it yielded 82 runs for the loss of two wickets.

That's Tea on Day 1 of the 4th Test.

In 27 overs bowled in the second session, India conceded 82 runs and took 2 wickets.

England - 139/6

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# First SIX of the match. Short ball from Bumrah and Moeen gives everything to it. Top edge from Moeen and the ball goes off the boundary. England 132/6 after 46.5 overs. 

# Sam Curren is in at number seven.

# The Indian pacers have rattled England as the hosts are reduced to 89/6.

# Wicket!!! Ben Stokes given out LBW.

# The post-lunch session resumes. England gifts away its fifth wicket Jos Buttler who walked off after scoring 21 runs. Mohammad Shami bowls one outside the stump and Butler gives an easy catch to Kohli. England are 69/5.

# This is the end of first session here and India delivered a superb show as England continues to be in trouble with 57/4 after 24 overs. Jasprit Bumrah is the star today as he picked up two wickets quite early in the game. Ishant and Pandya added one wicket each.

# And, that is lunch on Day 1. England 57/4.

# This was in a first Cook was dismissed by Pandya. It was his 8th consecutive innings without any 50 and 12th consecutive without 50 against India.

# Jos Buttler is in at number six.

# Wicket!!! England lose its fourth wicket Alastair Cook, who departs for 17. Hardik Pandya gets the breakthrough as Virat Kohli takes the sharp low catch. England is trouble  36/4.

# Ben Stokes is in at number five.

# Jasprit Bumrah has his second wicket. Jonny Bairstow walks back after scoring 6. England 28/3.

# England is off to a slow start with an early loss of two wickets. Jasprit Bumrah drew the first blood when he struck Keaton Jennings on middle and leg at zero. It was a horrendous judgement of Jennings as he looked to leave the ball but it came back sharply and hit in front of the stumps. England lost its second wicket when Ishant Sharma LBW skipper Joe Root. Root thought to hit it towards the leg side but missed. He went for a review but lost it. With this, Ishant Sharma gets his 250 Test wicket. Bumrah strikes again and sends back Bairstow (6). Edge and that was an easy catch for wicket-keeper Rishabh Pant. It appears like Bairstow's promotion to play a No 4 did not help England, who's at 28/3 after 13 overs.

# Jonny Bairstow is in at number four.

# Wicket!! England lose second wicket Joe Root (4). England took the review but the third umpire ruled Root LBW. The baller was Ishant Sharma. England 15/2. This was Ishant Sharma's 250 Test wicket.

# Skipper Joe Root is in at number three. 

# Wicket!! Jasprit Bumrah stuns Jennings. Bumrah brings the ball back in to trap Jennings plumb on front. Jennings departs for a duck. India off to a great start. England 1/1

# Alastair Cook and Keaton Jennings open the innings for England. 

# Interestingly, Virat Kohli fields an unchanged XI for the first time, after 38 Tests, under his captaincy. 

# England make two changes, Sam Curran comes in for Chris Woakes and Moeen Ali replaces Ollie Pope. 

England have won the toss and opt to bat 

Playing XI:

India: Shikhar Dhawan, Lokesh Rahul, Cheteshwar Pujara, Virat Kohli(c), Ajinkya Rahane, Hardik Pandya, Rishabh Pant(w), Ravichandran Ashwin, Ishant Sharma, Mohammed Shami, Jasprit Bumrah.

England: Alastair Cook, Keaton Jennings, Joe Root (c), Jonny Bairstow, Ben Stokes, Jos Buttler (wk), Moeen Ali, Sam Curran, Adil Rashid, Stuart Broad, James Anderson.

India will look to level the series after an emphatic win in the third Test at Trent Bridge, Nottingham. India produced a remarkable collective performance to outclass England in both the batting and bowling departments. Virat Kohli scored 200 runs in the match while Hardik Pandya (6/50) and Jasprit Bumrah’s (7/122) anchored India to a 203-run win. 

England, on the other hand, are one win away from clinching the series. The hosts had dominated India in the first two Tests (31-run win at Edgbaston, innings and 159 runs at Lord’s).