IND vs ENG Live Score, 1st Test Day 1: England openers fly off the ...

India vs England Live Score, 1st Test Day 1: Hello and welcome!

India vs England Live Score, 1st Test Day 1: India got a taste of Bazball during their postponed fifth Test in England in 2022. They were ahead for much of that match but then got an idea of what can happen when you let this England side dictate terms for even the shortest periods of a game. Before anyone knew what was happening, England's target of 378 started looking much smaller than what it really was, which was their highest successful run chase in over a century of playing Test cricket. Joe Root and Jonny Bairstow bludgeoned an unbeaten 269-run stand in just 316 balls, with the former scoring 142 in 173 and the latter making 114 in 145.

But this time, England will be asked to play that way in India, where their opponents have lost just three Tests in over a decade. India have made a joke out of a number of world class Test teams at home since England beat them here in 2012/13. The Ashwin-Jadeja duo have entered a bracket occupied by the likes of Wasim-Waqar, Ambrose-Walsh, Muralitharan-Vaas and Warne-McGrath in terms of bowling numbers of almost every kind. Moroever, the duo also have something the other legendary names in this list did not. They are both genuinely capable batters and very adept at countering the Indian conditions that they exploit with the ball in hand. In recent years, Axar Patel has joined this attack and lower order batting power and add to this the fact that India have Jasprit Bumrah and Mohammed Siraj ready to pounce at anything they have got - it becomes pretty clear that Bazball or not, there remains very few greater challenges in cricket than winning a Test here. But, turning around a dwindling England was seen as an insurmountable challenge and Ben Stokes and Brendon McCullum seem to have done all right in that department. Can they spring a surprise on the Indians here? As Sunil Gavaskar recently said, the first day here in Hyderabad could give us a big part of the answer to that question. Come along for the ride then, lets find these answers together.