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Mumbai:Debutant Keaton Jennings cracked a superb century to consolidate England’s position at 196\/2 at tea on the first day of the fourth Test match against India here on Thursday.<\/p>\nMumbai:Debutant Keaton Jennings cracked a superb century to consolidate England’s position at 196\/2 at tea on the first day of the fourth Test match against India here on Thursday.<\/p>\n
Jennings was unbeaten on 103 and Moeen Ali was batting on 25 when tea was taken after 62 overs. Jennings was the fifth England opener to hit a century on debut and the 69th player in cricket’s history to do so.<\/p>\n
England skipper Alastair Cook (46) and No.3 Joe Root (21) were the batsmen dismissed. Cook was out on the morning session of play while Root departed in the post-lunch phase.<\/p>\n
Cook was stumped by Parthiv Patel off the bowling of left-arm spinner Ravindra Jadeja (1-29). Root was caught by skipper Virat Kohli off off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin’s (1-55) bowling.<\/p>\n
England were 117\/1 at lunch.<\/p>\n
England put on 99 for the opening wicket after winning the toss and electing to bat at the Wankhede Stadium.<\/p>\n
Cook’s decision of taking first strike seemed vindicated when he and Jennings put together a strong partnership.<\/p>\n
They scored at a brisk rate of nearly four runs an over till Cook was foxed by Jadeja to come out of his crease and sharply stumped by Patel in the 26th over.<\/p>\n
Jennings continued to impress even after the departure of Cook, hitting 12 crisp boundaries.<\/p>\n
The left hander showed no signs of nerves while playing his first Test innings in a true pitch that offered consistent pace, bounce and not enough spin, making it easier for the batsmen to hit through the line.<\/p>\n
Cook earlier became the sixth batsman to score 2000 or more Test runs against India during his innings, when he reached 19.<\/p>\n
Cook is the first England batsman to achieve the feat against India, which have some elite names — Ricky Ponting, Clive Lloyd, Javed Miandad, Shivanarine Chanderpaul and Michael Clarke.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Mumbai:Debutant Keaton Jennings cracked a superb century to consolidate England’s position at 196\/2 at tea on the first day of the fourth Test match against India here on Thursday.<\/p>\n
Jennings was unbeaten on 103 and Moeen Ali was batting on 25 when tea was taken after 62 overs. Jennings was the fifth England opener to hit a century on debut and the 69th player in cricket’s history to do so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30399,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[4744,19219,7278,466,19218,19220],"class_list":["post-30401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket-cricket","tag-cricket-news","tag-cricket-score-update","tag-india-vs-england","tag-indian-sports-news","tag-keaton-jennings","tag-latest-score"],"yoast_head":"\n