Stuart Broad provided the false dawn for England in Rajkot with an instant but solitary breakthrough on the third morning of the first Test.
India lost Gautam Gambhir to the first ball of the second over, only for his fellow opener Murali Vijay (57no) and Cheteshwar Pujara (62no) to shut the door with a half-century each in an unbroken stand of 94 to take the hosts to 162 for one at lunch in reply to 537.
Broad struck immediately in the second spell of his 100th Test.
Gambhir had few problems the previous evening, and safely negotiated the opening over of the day from Moeen Ali, only to get himself in an unfeasible tangle against Broad.
The left-hander thrust his pad into line and his bat was nowhere as a delivery from round the wicket hit him bang in front. Sensibly, there was no review.
New batsman Pujara quickly got the better of Moeen.
He made one flighted ball into a full toss with quick footwork, his expert placement beating the leg-side field for four, then the off-spinner dropped short and was cut for a second boundary in the over.
Alastair Cook brought Zafar Ansari on instead, and Vijay deposited the left-armer's second ball over long-on for his first of two sixes off him.
Chris Woakes replaced Broad, and tested Pujara with the short ball, twice hitting him on the helmet.
Three counts maybe, but India's consummate number three was far from out on his home ground - and by the end of the session he had followed his partner to 50, with 10 fours from just 74 balls.
England are pinning their hopes on an accelerated deterioration of this pitch, for their spinners especially.
But there was precious little sign of it yet, and it was instructive maybe that their only success so far came when Broad's full length had taken the surface largely out of the equation.
