First Test, day one: England 115-1 (lunch)

Two frighteningly toothless novice attacks are duking it out at Lord's in this first Test of the series, and it's the India rabble that have the first opportunity to bowl themselves into some sort of form.

They didn't manage it in the morning session, as Michael Vaughan won the toss and elected to bat on a hard, green pitch, and Andrew Strauss and Alastair Cook raced away, racking up over 70 runs in the first hour of play before Cook fell lbw to the medium pace of Sourav Ganguly.

Vaughan himself was the next man in, and he and Strauss guided the side in to lunch at 115-1. Strauss, though, was lucky to hang in there, having been horrendously dropped by Dinesh Karthik in the penultimate over.

A successful morning for the hosts, then; a terrible one for the visitors, who struggled against the left-handed openers and did not fare a great deal better against the class and elegance of the captain, though they did at least manage to slow the run-rate down. [Carrie Dunn] [Image: Getty]