England 61/2 against India at lunch

FILE PHOTO: MUMBAI, INDIA – NOVEMBER 03: Jonathan Trott of England bats during day one of the tour match between Mumbai A and England at The Dr D.Y. Palit Sports Stadium on November 3, 2012 in Mumbai, India.

Nagpur, Dec 13 – England were 61/2 at lunch on the first day of the fourth and final cricket Test against India here at the VCA Stadium Thursday.

Electing to bat, the visitors lost both openers, skipper Alastair Cook (1) and Nick Compton (3), to pacer Ishant Sharma.

Jonathan Trott and Kevin Pietersen were batting at 28 each when lunch was called.

Scoreboard at lunch on the first day of the fourth and final cricket Test match between India and England here at the VCA Stadium Thursday:

England (First innings)

Alastair Cook lbw Sharma 1

Nick Compton c Dhoni b Sharma 3

Jonathan Trott batting 28

Kevin Pietersen batting 28

Extras (lb 1) 1

Total (two wickets; 33 overs) 61

Fall of wickets: 1-3 (Compton, 4.2 overs), 2-16 (Cook, 10.3)

Bowling; Ishant Sharma 8-3-9-2; Pragyan Ojha 10-4-14-0; Ravindra Jadeja 8-4-19-0; Piyush Chawla 5-1-14-0; Ravichandran Ashwin 2-1-4-0

Match details: England, who chose to bat

Test debuts: Joe Root (England), Ravindra Jadeja (India)

Umpires: Kumar Dharmasena (Sri Lanka) and Rod Tucker (Australia)

TV umpire: S Ravi

Match referee: Jeff Crowe (New Zealand)

Reserve umpire: CK Nandan