Nagpur: England are 61/2 at lunch on day one against England in the fourth Test being played at Vidarbha Cricket Association Stadium, Jamtha, Nagpur here today. Ishant Sharma bowled a brilliant spell with the new ball and took both the wickets that fell.

Earlier in the day, England captain Alastair Cook won the toss and decided to bat first on a pitch that was covered with cracks before the start. England had two changes in their squad with Steven Finn and Samit Patel being replaced by Tim Bresnan and Joe Root.

India too had two changes, with Zaheer Khan and Yuvraj Singh missing out their places to Piyush Chawla and Ravindra Jadeja.

Cook and Nick Compton have done well as an opening pair in the series but they failed in this match. Compton (3*) was the first man to get out when he edged a rising delivery from Sharma and Dhoni completed an easy catch. Jonathan Trott got a lucky break when the umpire denied an appeal, with the replays showing that he was out.

But, Ishant got lucky in his next over when Cook (1*) was adjudged leg before wicket when the ball was clearly missing the stumps.

Trott and Kevin Pietersen then played good cricket to put up an unbeaten stand of 45 runs.

By Indian Sports News Network