England Batting Fails In Opening Test v India At Edgbaston.

Having won the toss on a cloudy day, you may be forgiven for wondering whether the decision to bat first was a wise one by captain Joe Root. Indian skipper, Kohli, announced, after losing the toss, that his team had wanted to bowl first in any case.
In conditions where the ball swung for large portions of the day, the England top order played intelligently and were cursed with grave misfortune.
With Cook looking in good nick, he was bamboozled by a superb, turning delivery from the equally superb Indian spinner, Ashwin, who went onto wreak further havoc as the innings progressed.
Jennings was unfortunate to see a ball which had hit bat, pad and boot to roll gently onto his stumps at the kind of speed which could not possibly dislodge a bail - but it did!
Malan was given out LBW to Shami in rather dubious fashion - the umpire's decision against him - which looked wrong from the outset - was shown to be clipping the bail by an eighth of an inch. (Is Hawkeye really that accurate?)
The inning turned, however when Root (80) and Bairstow (70) were in total command of the game. The batsmen took a single and then Bairstow went for a second - making his ground with comfort. He had seemingly forgotten that, whereas Joe is quick between the wickets - he is nowhere near as fast. Root was comfortably run our with the score on 215.
Over the next 70 runs, we saw the usual middle order collapse with a further five wickets going down.
On day one, England are already looking down the barrel of defeat.
Score: 285 for 9.