England make good progress

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Michael Vaughan's men, including the most inexperienced bowling line-up for six years, once again showed their appetite for batting in NW8.

Openers Alastair Cook and Andrew Strauss charged the total to 76 without loss in the first hour, after Vaughan won his fifth toss in a row in Test cricket.

England have declared here for scores of 553, 528 and 551 in their previous three Tests and have passed 500 in their first innings in five of their last six.

Despite left-armer Zaheer Khan beginning with a maiden, a boundary glut resulted in 40 runs coming from the next four.

Cook got off the mark with a clip off the pads for four and repeated the stroke in the same over from Shanthakumaran Sreesanth.

Fellow left-hander Strauss, who has struggled for runs this summer, got going with two edges to the third man rope off Zaheer but showed signs of some semblance of form with a couple of tucks for four through midwicket as the 50-run partnership came up off 51 balls.