HYDERABAD: Ben Stokes pressed the accelerator button when it was wanted essentially the most to top-score with 70 off 88 deliveries, whereas veteran spinners Ravichandran Ashwin and Ravindra Jadeja took three wickets every as India bowled out England for 246 on day one among first Take a look at on the Rajiv Gandhi Worldwide Stadium on Thursday.

It was an innings the place England have been nice in patches — the opening partnership yielding 55 runs whereas Joe Root and Jonny Bairstow had a stand of 61 runs for the fourth wicket. Stokes, the England skipper, introduced up his thirty first Take a look at fifty after lunch, whereas making treasured runs with the lower-order to take England previous 200.

England’s first problem of fronting as much as Indian spinners of their ‘Bazball’ period resulted in favour of the guests’. Eight England wickets fell to spin as they have been left in a spot of trouble twice at 60-3 and 155-7.

Three wickets every have been taken by Jadeja and Ashwin respectively, although the previous was costly as a consequence of coming in line of the Stokes onslaught. Axar Patel took two wickets, whereas fast-bowler Jasprit Bumrah additionally had two scalps.

Stokes, coming again to motion after a left knee surgical procedure final 12 months, proved that he nonetheless possesses his famed preventing qualities, seen by hitting six fours and three sixes to wage a late counter-attack for England.

He adopted his all-familiar sample of beginning sluggish, earlier than urgent the accelerator to enter a better gear and clearing the boundary ropes with aggressive stroke-play, seen from him getting his final 53 runs off his ultimate 36 deliveries.

Submit lunch, Stokes smashed Jadeja for 2 back-to-back huge leg-side sixes to carry up his fifty, after being given a reprieve by KS Bharat on the primary ball of the third session.

After Mark Wooden was castled by Ashwin for 11 whereas making an attempt a giant heave, Stokes lofted the off-spinner for six after which bought a 4 off Bumrah to get a boundary. Finally, Bumrah beat Stokes comprehensively on the surface edge and rattled his off-stump to wrap England’s innings in 64.3 overs.

With 246 being an honest rating on a pitch which hasn’t been as tough to bat on as it’s often in India, the hosts will probably be aiming to bat for at the very least one and a half days to place themselves into ascendancy within the match.

Transient Scores: England 246 in 64.3 overs (Ben Stokes 70, Ben Duckett 35; Ravichandran Ashwin 3-68, Ravindra Jadeja 3-88) in opposition to India