India take control
The home side hold all the cards after day one of the first Test in Nagpur. The first day of the four match series could hardly have gone much better for the hosts, bar the loss of KL Rahul to Aussie debutant Todd Murphy an over before the close. They find themselves just 100 runs adrift with nine wickets in hand. The desiccated pitch doesn’t look likely to get easier to bat on, any sizeable first innings lead could well be crucial.
Australia were undone by both pace and spin, Shami and Siraj making early inroads to reduce the visitors to 2-2 before Ravindra Jadeja piped up to take five wickets on his return to Test cricket. Ravichandran Ashwin racked up his 450th (and 451st) Test wickets and Skipper Rohit Sharma looked in imperious form with the bat, scorching a chanceless fifty off just 66 balls. His Australian counterpart, Pat Cummins, was woefully out of sorts with his first efforts with the ball on what was a largely ponderous fielding display for the visitors.
The report from the ground has just landed and we’ll be back tomorrow to OBO day two. Thanks as ever for the emails and comments, goodbye!
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