India bowled out England for 246 on the opening day of the first Test here on Thursday with the home team spinners sharing eight wickets between them.

England captain Ben Stokes won the toss and opted to bat first. The visitors were off to a decant start with openers Zak Crawley (20) and Ben Duckett (35) adding 55 runs at a fairly good pace before Ravichandran Ashwin gave India their first breakthrough by having Duckett trapped in front of the wicket.