England’s first day of Test match cricket in India in 18 years left their bowlers annoyed after India piled on 410 runs, regardless of seven wickets falling all through the day.

India jogged alongside at a canter for a lot of the afternoon and night periods to rack up their highest ever innings whole in a house Test, because of half-centuries from Yastika Bhatia and Deepti Sharma, in addition to Test debutants Jemimah Rodrigues and Satheesh Shubha.

England took the brand new ball as quickly because it turned out there, however Deepti appeared untroubled, flicking Lauren Bell by way of sq. leg to deliver up her third fifty in as many Tests. She remained unbeaten on 60 in a single day.

“You can’t prepare for a Test match until you play it,” Bell stated. “The second phase of the game was tough, but we’ve got a close-knit team and we got through it together.”

India captain Harmanpreet Kaur was denied a Test fifty of her personal in weird circumstances, after being run out backing up on 49. Harmanpreet had initially celebrated the milestone after the direct hit from Danni Wyatt ricocheted off the stumps on the non-strikers finish and he or she ran a single, however replays confirmed that she had not managed to floor her bat in time, showing to get it caught within the crease. Even extra oddly, the dismissal mimicked her run-out within the World Cup semi-final in February, which additionally gave the impression to be the results of getting her bat caught.

England missed out on the possibility to see off Bhatia early in her innings, when she top-edged Charlie Dean to mid-on on 15, and Bell put down a simple catch. Bell was in a position to atone for her mistake, holding onto an opportunity in the identical place off the identical bowler, however not earlier than Bhatia had smashed a six off Lauren Filer to deliver up her fifty in type.

It was additionally a day to recollect for 2 of India’s three debutants. Denied the possibility by the selectors to play in India’s two earlier Tests, Rodrigues – who has change into a mainstay of Northern Superchargers in The Hundred – took to the longer type like a duck to water, including 68 runs to the full earlier than Bell pegged again her center stump.

Meanwhile Shubha, making not simply her Test debut however her maiden look for India in any format, repaid the religion of the selectors handsomely with an innings of 69 performed both aspect of lunch.

The 24-year-old Shubha, who was a shock call-up to the Test squad on the again of scores of 99 and 49 in India’s four-day follow match, introduced up her half-century simply earlier than the break with an beautiful drive down the bottom for 4.

Sophie Ecclestone adopted up her 10 wickets in June’s Ashes Test by having the younger Indian batter caught – Nat Sciver-Brunt doing the honours with a diving effort at midwicket – however that was, surprisingly, her solely scalp of the day.

Earlier, Bell and Kate Cross had begun with a profitable continuation of the new-ball partnership they established at Trent Bridge in opposition to Australia in June – England’s most up-to-date red-ball encounter. The pair eliminated each openers inside the first 40 minutes of play, after India selected to bat first of their first Test on residence soil since 2014.

Bell might even have had Smriti Mandhana along with her second ball of the morning, however Tammy Beaumont at quick leg was hampered by her helmet and misjudged the skied catch. Bell responded within the sixth over by angling the ball to the left-hander, who tried to chop however succeeded solely in dragging it onto her personal stumps. Three overs later, Cross’s constant probing line to Shafali Verma was finally rewarded when she moved the ball late off the pitch and took out Verma’s off stump.

But with Shubha and Rodrigues becoming a member of forces in a 115-run partnership and the runs flowing freely for India, the primary day belonged to the hosts.