India win toss, they will bat. "It looks like a good hard wicket, with brown grass, not green grass," says Dhoni. Stuart Binny come in for Rohit Sharma, Jadeja is the lone spinner, while Bhuvneshwar replaces Zaheer from India's last Test XI. Alastair Cook wanted to bat first too. They include Ben Stokes for Chris Jordan.
England Team
AN Cook*, SD Robson, GS Ballance, IR Bell, JE Root, MM Ali, MJ Prior†, BA Stokes, SCJ Broad, LE Plunkett, JM Anderson
India Team
M Vijay, S Dhawan, CA Pujara, V Kohli, AM Rahane, RA Jadeja, MS Dhoni*†, STR Binny, B Kumar, I Sharma, Mohammed Shami
Looks like Vijay is toying with Anderson,3 boundaries in a row..Too early to call so,but yeah quite happy at least vijay is striking the ball.
0.5 Anderson to Vijay, FOUR,
that's a gift to any Indian batsman! Anderson serves up a full delivery on that pads and Vijay whips it with ease to make it three boundaries in a row
0.4 Anderson to Vijay, FOUR, another one through the same region, this one is better controlled from the batsman. He comes forward and guides this through fourth slip area. Anderson won't mind this
0.3 Anderson to Vijay, FOUR, looks to leave this one, but he is late in pulling the bat out, fortunately for the batsman, the ball takes an underedge and skids past the third slip fielder for first runs