India vs England Mumbai Test Day 1: Debutant Jennings' century steers visitors to 288/5 at stumps

Debutant Keaton Jennings scored a brilliant century on debut and strung together useful partnerships with captain Alastair Cook and Moeen Ali to help the visitors post 288 for 5 at stumps on Day 1

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India vs England Mumbai Test Day 1: Debutant Jennings' century steers visitors to 288/5 at stumps

India vs England Mumbai Test: Keaton Jennings scored a half-century on debut

India vs England, 4th Test, Day 1

Day 1 - Summary

England won the toss and elected to bat. England got off to a solid start with both their openers Alastair Cook and debutant Keaton Jennings stitching a healthy partnership of 99 runs. Ravindra Jadeja broke the opening stand by scalping the England captain Cook on 46. Jennings continued to help the visitors pile on runs with valuable partnerships with Joe Root and Moeen Ali. Ace off-spinner R Ashwin then cast his web by striking quick blows to dent the English middle order. Ashwin got the wickets of Root, Ali and Bairstow in quick succession and helped India get back into the game. Meanwhile Jennings brought up his century on debut. Wicket-keeper Jos Butler and Ben Stokes steadied things for the visitors towards the end of the day to put a respectable 288 on board at stumps.

England : Alastair Cook(c), Keaton Jennings, Joe Root, Moeen Ali, Ben Stokes, Jonny Bairstow(w), Jos Buttler, Chris Woakes, Adil Rashid, James Anderson, Jake Ball

India : Murali Vijay, Lokesh Rahul, Cheteshwar Pujara, Virat Kohli(c), Karun Nair, Parthiv Patel(w), Ravichandran Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja, Jayant Yadav, Bhuvneshwar Kumar

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#England win toss elect to bat first 

#Keaton Jennings and Alastair Cook opens the batting for England
#Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Umesh Yadav opens the bowling for India
#Eng 24 for no loss after 7 overs
#Cook and Jennings going strong for the visitors
#England bring up their fifty
#Visitors lose 1st wicket, Jadeja gets Cook
#Keaton Jennings scores a half century on debut
#England puts 100 on the board
#Joe Root joins Jennings at the crease
#The players break for Lunch
#England puts 117/1 at Lunch
#Ashwin strikes, England lose Root after Lunch
#Ali and Jennings pile on the runs
#Jennings scores a century on debut
#England continue to pile on with Ali and Jennings going strong
#Ali scores half century
#Ashwin breaks England's resistance, gets Ali 
#Ashwin strikes again to remove Jennings
#Ashwin on a roll, gets Bairstow early
#England end Day 1 at 288 for the loss of 5 wickets
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