Sport 04-12-2001 England Cricket Collapse who: England cricket team what: 238 all out on first day of First Test where: India when: Yesterday snippet: "Indian bowlers struck back to stop England`s early merrymaking on the opening day of the first test match," says Sandeep Nakai in The Independent, "bowling them all out for 238. England had previously stood at 107 for one." Harbhajan Singh "claimed five of the last six wickets that fell as England slumped from 224 for four to 238 all out," says The Evening Standard`s report from Mohali. "His post-tea spell of 7.3-3-6-5 shattered the promise shown by the tourists during the morning when captain Nasser Hussain and Marcus Trescothick shared a century stand for the second wicket." "It is difficult enough to give India a proper contest on their own pitches without surrendering whatever advantages you have earned by the sweat of your brow," says The Telegraph`s Michael Henderson, mournfully, "but England had complicity in their fall from grace yesterday." "At 200-3, and with skipper Hussain within 15 runs of a century in his first Test innings in the country where he was born, they were dreaming of a 400-plus total," says The Mirror`s Mike Walters. "But as the last six wickets crashed for 14 runs in 14 overs, England were left only with tears on their pilau." [... more]

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