India Score 1/24 After Spinners Bowl England Out For 205 On Day 1

Indian spinners Axar Patel and Ravichandran Ashwin took seven wickets between them as England were dismissed for 205 on the first day of the fourth and final Test on Thursday. Brief scores: England 20

Stokes reached his 24th Test fifty with a boundary off a reverse sweep, but the left-hander fell to a Washington Sundar delivery from around the wicket. Patel got Dan Lawrence stumped four short of his fifty.

England's innings lasted for 75.5 overs, which was quite close to the 79.2 overs it lasted across two innings combined in the third Test.

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India lost an early wicket, of Shubman Gill (0), off the bowling of James Anderson during the 12 overs they had to face towards the end of the day's play. Rohit Sharma was unbeaten on eight and Cheteshwar Pujara was not out on 15.