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Ben Stokes pressed the accelerator button when it was needed the most to top-score with 70 off 88 deliveries, while veteran spinners Ravichandran Ashwin and Ravindra Jadeja took three wickets each as India bowled out England for 246 on day one of first Test at the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium on Thursday.

It was an innings where England were great in patches -- the opening partnership yielding 55 runs while Joe Root and Jonny Bairstow had a stand of 61 runs for the fourth wicket. Stokes, the England skipper, brought up his 31st Test fifty after lunch, while making precious runs with the lower-order to take England past 200.