Ohja, Pujara Set up Nine-wicket Win

Ahmedabad: Cheteshwar Pujara and Virat Kohli chased down the required 77 runs in 15.3 overs as India completed a nine-wicket victory to take a 1-0 lead against England on the fifth day of the first Test at Sardar Patel Stadium at Motera in Ahmedabad on Monday.

Kevin Pietersen took a good catch at long-on to dismiss Virender Sehwag off Graeme Swann to deny India a ten-wicket victory.

Swann bowled a loopy off-spinner around off, Sehwag came down the track for a big shot over long on but failed to get the timing right. It balloons in the air and Pietersen took the catch over his head. The backward momentum pushed him towards the ropes but he did well to maintain the balance.

Sehwag and Pujara brought up the Indian fifty in the eighth over.

Earlier, Pragyan Ojha took four wickets as following on, England were bowled out for 406 runs in their second innings on the fifth day of the first Test at Sardar Patel Stadium at Motera in Ahmedabad on Monday.

Lunch was taken at the end of England second innings.

India bounced back after a mediocre evening session on Day 4 and picked up the remaining five wickets by conceding another 66 runs.

Ojha once again shone with the ball as he picked both the overnight batsmen in quick succession and finished with 9 wickets in the match, his best Test match figures.

Alastair Cook was the star with the bat for England but barring him and Matt Prior all England struggled.

England lost their eighth wicket when Umesh Yadav took a return catch to dismiss Stuart Broad.

R Ashwin finally got his first wicket when he clean bowled Graeme Swann.

England's innings ended when Zaheer came from round the wicket and served a fuller length delivery outside off, Tim Bresnan got forward and drove it firmly through the line, but he failed to keep it down and substitute fielder Ajinkya Rahane took a fine tumbling catch to his left in the covers.

Cook played remarkably well to score 176 runs with the help of 21 hits to the fence.

Prior hit 11 fours in his 91-run knock and added 157 runs with captain Alastair Cook for the sixth wicket.

Brief scores
India 521 for 8 dec (Pujara 206*, Sehwag 117, Yuvraj 74, Swann 5-144) and 77 for 1 (Pujara 41*)
England 191 (Ojha 5-45, Ashwin 3-80) and 406 (Cook 176, Prior 91, Ojha 4-120)
Result India won by nine wickets