4th Test- Day 1: India Unsuccessful Against England

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Cricbuzz: India fallen fabulously, losing four wickets with only eight runs on the board in six overs, at the begin of the fourth Test against England at Old Trafford on Thursday. Mahendra Singh Dhoni, the Indian skipper, won the throw and chose to bat regardless of the cloudy conditions, however the number six batsman soon ended up in the center after the top-request neglected to manage the swing and ricochet of England new-ball team James Anderson and Stuart Broad.

The greater part of India's initial four wickets fell with their score on eight, the travelers losing four wickets for no runs in 13 balls, with three of the released batsmen out for nil. The left-gave opener had made four when he was fixed by a climbing Broad conveyance in the fourth over that he could just edge straight to Joe Root in the ravine.

Anderson, on his Lancashire home ground, then took two wickets for no runs in three balls as both opener Murali Vijay and Virat Kohli succumbed to ducks in the wake of edging to England skipper Alastair Cook from the get go slip. Cheteshwar Pujara additionally left for nothing when, in the sixth over, he got an outside edge off Broad and Chris Jordan, plunging to his right, held a fine get at third slip.

India's least Test innings aggregate is the 42 they made against England at Lord's in 1974, with the unsurpassed most reduced New Zealand's 26 hard and fast, additionally against England, at Auckland in 1954/55. In spite of the fact that Thursday's breakdown was extreme in the compelling, it didn't speak to India's most exceedingly awful begin to a Test innings with the bat.

That came in the second innings against England at Headingley in 1952 when India were decreased to no runs for four wickets with fanciful quick bowler Fred Trueman, making his Test presentation on his Yorkshire home ground, taking three of those wickets.

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