Manchester: "You can't win a Test match on a first morning, but you can certainly lose it," goes an old cricketing view that many pundits have preached. The first session of the fourth Test between India and England was a classic example of this.


Ajinkya Rahane. Pic/AFP 

Under cloudy skies, the ball swung prodigiously and for the first time, the edges flew to the slip cordon. India collapsed metrically in the first 45 minutes of the match and this could well be fateful.