Live Report - India vs England, 2nd Test, Chennai, 1st day
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11.25am: Kohli moly
> That Kohli wicket - and his reaction - has already got plenty of people talking, griping and gawping...Art Artist
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It was a very good ball from Moeen, but not as good as the one Vaughan bowled Tendulkar with. When Kohli watches the replay, he might not be happy with the stroke he played
— Sambit Bal (@sambitbal)
— Adam Collins (@collinsadam)
11.14am: ...and Moeen bowls Kohli!
> Kohli is dumbfounded, but he's been knocked over for a fifth-ball duck by ! Silence at Chepauk, and Kohli needs convincing that he's been done through the gate by a big-turning offie, hanging around as the umpires check the replays (which quickly confirm that the ball crashed into the off bail). Huge blow, thought somewhat self-inflicted, as Kohli aimed a booming off-side drive that turned sharply from wide of off stump. Moeen, celebrating his first wicket since getting Tim Paine at Edgbaston in 2019, was off immediately towards cover, arm raised in celebration.Virat wants DRS for the bowled; aka Gatting's reaction had it existed in 1993
— Daniel Brettig (@danbrettig)
11.10am: Leach extracts Puj
> Cheers around the ground, because11am: Mo show
class="insert-para">Moeen Ali is back in England's Test team for the first time since the 2019 Ashes, and England will be hoping that he can bring the experience of his 60 caps to bear after replacing Dom Bess. His first ball was a full toss () and there have been one or two four balls, mixed in with some nicely flighted fare, in his opening spell so far. The India run rate is hovering around four an over, and England need to tighten up.
10.45am: Fifty for Rohit
Rohit Sharma needs just 47 deliveries to get to his fifty!
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Two Leach full tosses dispatched for hard-swept fours and has a 47-ball half-century for the Chepauk crowd to lap up. Virat Kohli said previously that his team know how to play in these conditions and Rohit is providing proof of that, making light of any encouragement for the bowlers by taking them on whenever an opportunity arises. Leach did get one to turn and bounce to take the glove when Rohit had 41, but it didn't quite carry to Stokes at slip. With spin at both ends, after the introduction of the returning Moeen Ali, this could be an entertaining passage of play.
10.30am: Polished Stone, Rohits the spot
class="insert-para">has only played one first-class match since his Test debut in 2019, but his opening spell on his return to England whites could barely have gone better. Wicket from his third ball, Pujara hurried and hit, pace up to 150kph/92mph, figures of 4-2-8-1. He provided both wicket-taking threat and economy, even as Rohit was latching on to anything overpitched by Broad at the other end. England's opening pair stuck diligently to their lines and when Stone did finally deliver a short, wide ball that Rohit cut to the boundary in his fourth over, it was the first ball not pitching outside off or within the stumps, according to ESPNcricinfo's ball-by-ball data (41 outside off, 6 within the stumps). Rohit, meanwhile, has looked to be positive at every opportunity, hooking Ben Stokes for six and scoring 41 out of India's 48 for 1 after the first hour.
10.15am: Make your pitch
class="insert-para">Early signs that this Chepauk deck is going to give a little more comfort to the bowlers, with puffs of dust and the ball stopping in the surface. Rohit, having stroked a couple of classy boundaries off Broad, saw one checked drive loop up and over mid-on, while Stone hit Cheteshwar Pujara on the hand with a well-directed short ball - . Jack Leach then saw his first ball go through the top, and England lost a review in the same over after a leg-side lbw shout against Rohit. Plenty going on so far, and you can see whether that tallies with what our Match Day team were expecting before the start.
9.45am: Stone's perfect start
> Much debate about England's policy of rotating their bowlers throughout this six-Test tour of the subcontinent, but a fresh new-ball pair of Stuart Broad and Olly Stone started right on the money. After Broad's maiden to Rohit Sharma, Stone then claimed his first Test wicket since July 2019 with his third ball of the morning, as Shubman Gill padded up to one that would have toppled off stump. An easy decision for the umpire, as our own Andrew Miller called it:Stone dead
— Andrew Miller (@miller_cricket)
9.30am: Let's play!
What a moment for How will he fare on Test debut?
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Here's Axar Patel getting his cap on debut. He'll now be hoping to put his feet up and leave his bowling boots in the changing room for the rest of the day... Time to get going out at Chepauk, where the crowds are back and Rohit Sharma is facing up to Broad, headband in place, with the new ball. Three slips and a gully watching on.
9.20am: Rotation situation
class="insert-para">England, of course, have made four changes to a winning team, partly due to injury but also because of preconceived plans about rest and rotation. Here's , back in the side in place of James Anderson, on his preparation having sat out the last two Tests: "[It's gone] as well as can be expected, it's been nearly a month since I had any form of match practice, but you've got to get what you can get in nets but that's just part of the current situation we're in. We saw how well the India bowlers came out in Australia after not much match practice and we're in a similar boat today but we've had great facilities to train on, get the full run-up in the nets and I feel as ready as can be. It is quite hard to replicate match conditions in the nets, you just have to try and up your intensity as much as you can. That's where experience [comes in], I've played a lot of cricket, I can fall back on knowledge and feel calm at the crease knowing that I've been there before."
9am: India win the toss, make three changes
Plenty of changes for both teams from their first Test!Who's going to win this one?
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Hello and welcome to . That, at least, is the script Virat Kohli is working from - and having won the toss and chosen to bat, his side should get to dictate terms on what is expected to be a much livelier track. India have given a debut to Axar Patel, whose absence through injury last week had a knock-on effect for the rest of the XI. With Patel fit, they have recalled Kuldeep Yadav for the first time in two years, while Mohammed Siraj replaces Jasprit Bumrah, who is rested after bowling 42 overs in his first Test on home soil. England had named their XII on the eve of the match, with Stuart Broad, Ben Foakes and Moeen Ali all coming in. The final spot came down to Olly Stone's pace versus the experience (and batting) of Chris Woakes, with Stone getting the nod. He'll play his second Test, having debuted against Ireland at Lord's in 2019.
Alan Gardner is a deputy editor at ESPNcricinfo. @alanroderick
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