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Mumbai: Centurion Cheteshwar Pujara and R Ashwin frustrated England blowers in the final session to guide India to 266/6 at stumps on the first day of the second Test at the Wankhede stadium on Friday.
Pujara was batting on 114 while Ashwin was unbeaten on 60 before the bails were taken off. The duo shared unbeaten 97-run stand for the seventh wicket.
Pujara hooked James Anderson for a boundary in the 81st over to reach his century after facing 248 deliveries.
Ravichandran Ashwin, who came to bat after the dismissal of skipper MS Dhoni, reached his half-ton after Pujara crossed the triple figure.
Earlier, Monty Panesar claimed his fourth victim in the form of MS Dhoni (29) to give India sixth blow on the second ball after tea break.
Panesar got Dhoni caught by Graeme Swann to reduce India to 169/6.
However, Pujara and Ashwin frustrated the vistors with their gritty shows. The duo took the score past 250-mark in the 85th over.
Panesar bowled a splendid spell of 23 overs on either side of lunch for the wickets of Virender Sehwag (30), Sachin Tendulkar (8) and Virat Kohli (19).
James Anderson and off-spinner Graeme Swann packed off Gautam Gambhir (4) and Yuvraj Singh (2) respectively. After pushing India on the backfoot in the pre-lunch session, England continued the good work with a two-wicket burst in successive overs in the first hour of the post-lunch session.
Panesar, who sent back Sehwag -- playing his 100th Test -- and Tendulkar in the successive overs before lunch, got his third victim of the innings by dismissing Kohli.
After disturbing the stumps of Sehwag and Tendulkar with sharply turning balls, Panesar induced Kohli to attempt a drive with a ball that drifted in and turned big to take the bat's leading edge for Nick Compton at short covers.
Kohli, unbeaten on 6 at lunch, had cover-driven the left-arm bowler and his spin partner Swann for boundaries in successive overs before he was lured to his departure by the crafty Panesar in the bowler's 17th over.
Earlier in the morning, James Anderson gave England an early break by dismissing Gautam Gambhir off the second ball of the match.
Gambhir, who flicked the England pace bowler to mid wicket off the first ball, missed the next while trying for a similar shot to leg and was struck in front by Anderson to make India 4 for 1.
Brief scores
India 266 for 6 (Pujara 114*, Ashwin 60*, Panesar 4-91)
