Deplorable start: India bundled out for 191 on opening day of fourth Test

London: India were all out for 191 on day one of the fourth Test against England here on Thursday. Virat Kohli couldn't convert his good start into a much-anticipated three-figure knock and made only 50 off 96 balls while Shardul Thakur saved India the blushes with a sensational 57 off 36 balls and took the total towards 200 in the final session.

England produced another top class bowling effort after winning the toss with Chris Woakes taking four wickets and Ollie Robinson taking three.

Robinson dismissed Virat Kohli for the third time in the series with the India skipper departing after a well made fifty. India reached 122 for six at tea.

Kohli (50 off 96 balls), who looked a few notches above his other batting colleagues, hit some delectable cover drives but the fast-rising Ollie Robinson (16-9-24-2) got one to rear up as the Indian skipper closed his bat face to provide Jonny Bairstow a regulation catch.

The Joe Root dropped catch at slips off Chris Woakes' (10-5-19-2) bowling didn't matter much as Kohli, despite his eight well-timed boundaries, was once again consumed outside the off-stump.

On either side of Kohli's dismissals during the session was Ravindra Jadeja (10) and Ajinkya Rahane (14)'s ejection from the crease which pretty much summed up another batting debacle.

Jadeja coming out at No.5 to protect an out-of-form Rahane was bizarre and it didn't take much time for Woakes to get him to nick one into the palms of Root.

For Rahane, the time is simply running out after yet another failure and the fact that he needed to be hid behind Jadeja under the pretence of having a left-right combination, said it all. Craig Overton (11-2-30-1) ended the Indian vice-captain's misery with his opposite number Moeen Ali taking a sharp low catch at third slip to increase India's woes.

Earlier, India's openers Rohit Sharma (11) and KL Rahul (17), after showing initial promise, were done in by high quality seam bowling, while Cheteshwar Pujara (4) got one from James Anderson that could easily qualify to be the "ball of the series".

England captain Joe Root called it right at the toss and knowing India's struggling batting line-up, promptly put them into bat. Both Rohit and Rahul punished the loose deliveries from Anderson with 28 runs added within first 35-odd minutes before Woakes was brought into the attack replacing the senior-most pacer, who looked a bit tight during that spell. A delivery outside the channel with extra bounce saw the normally patient Rohit jabbing at it and the catch was taken by wicket-keeper Bairstow. Rahul, who had already hit three boundaries, was ready to pounce on anything over-pitched outside the off-stump before Robinson got one to jag back sharply from length and the TV replays showed that the ball would have clipped the bail. The on-field umpire's decision was upheld. (PTI)