HARTLEY WILL GET OUT OF JAM

Hit for six with first ball, but Tom's team-mate Duckett hits back: Stokesy will still throw him ball all day long

- RORY DOLLARD

TOM HARTLEY has received the support of all his England team-mates after he was hit for six with his first ball in Test cricket.

After being bowled out for 246 here where debutant Hartley made a lively 23 - England opted to open the bowling yesterday with their Lancastrian newcomer.

The left-arm spinner is used to fronting up with the new ball in limited-overs cricket but had never done so in his first-class career before he went head-to-head with Yashasvi Jaiswal in front of 30,000 fans in Hyderabad.

It was not a bad loosener, but disappeared over the ropes as Jaiswal threw everything into a slog sweep that set the tone for India's aggressive response of 119-1.