India v England, 1st Test: Day One in pictures

R. Ashwin picked up India's first wicket of the Test series, castling Alastair Cook with a peach of a delivery in his second over, the ball pitching on or just outside leg before spitting past his outside edge to hit the top of off-stump.

Captain Joe Root and Keaton Jennings then began the repair work, taking England safely through to lunch. The duo stitched together 72 runs for the second wicket.

Root had trudged his way to a rather unruffled 80 before a moment of brilliance from his Indian counterpart Virat Kohli saw him take the loing walk back to the dressing room. Bairstow nudged Ashwin into the on-side and turned for a second run. Kohli sprinted after the ball and hurled it in from the outfield to find Root short at the bowler's end by a couple of yards.

Jonny Bairstow continued to blunt the Indian attack with a well-paced 70 off 88 deliveries. The wicketkeeper-batsman hammered nine boundaries, in the process racking up his 18th half-century.

Umesh Yadav got the much needed breakthrough for India; Bairstow dragging the Indian pacer on for an 88-ball-70 to leave England reeling at 223 for five.

Ashwin ran amok with the ball, finishing with four for 60 from 25 overs as England slipped to 285/9 from 216/4. The tall off-spinner from Tamil Nadu, whose place in the Test playing XI was under doubt until recently, had just wrested the day's honours in India's hands.

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R. Ashwin picked up India's first wicket of the Test series, castling Alastair Cook with a peach of a delivery in his second over, the ball pitching on or just outside leg before spitting past his outside edge to hit the top of off-stump.