<p class="bodytext">India at last dismissed openers Rory Burns and Haseeb Hameed but England remained well-placed in the third Test at Headingley on Thursday.</p>.<p class="bodytext">England were 182-2 at lunch on the second day, a lead of 104 runs, having bowled the tourists out for just 78 following India captain Virat Kohli's decision to bat first on Wednesday.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Yorkshire batsmen Dawid Malan (27 not out) and England captain Joe Root (14 not out) were both unbeaten on their home ground.</p>.<p class="bodytext">But one regret for England, looking to level this five-match series at 1-1 after a 151-run defeat in the second Test at Lord's, was that neither Burns nor Hameed really pressed on after dominating India's attack on Wednesday.</p>.<p class="bodytext">England resumed on a commanding 120-0, after veteran spearhead James Anderson, with a return of 3-6 in eight overs, had ripped through India's top order to spark a dramatic collapse.</p>.<p class="bodytext">This was only the fifth time England's first wicket partnership had surpassed the all-out total of the team batting first, with Burns 52 not out overnight and Hameed 60 not out.</p>.<p class="bodytext">England's 22nd opening partnership since Andrew Strauss retired in 2012, posted only England's second century first-wicket stand in the past five years of Test cricket.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Left-hander Burns, however, had added just nine runs to his total when he was bowled playing down the wrong line to Mohammed Shami, with England now 135-1.</p>.<p class="bodytext">New batsman Malan, recalled following a three-year absence from Test cricket after England dropped the struggling Dom Sibley, got off the mark with a cover-driven boundary off Jasprit Bumrah and followed that shot up with two more fours off Mohammed Siraj.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Hameed, promoted to open in place of Burns after his five-year exile from Test cricket ended with him managed just nine runs in total at Lord's, had looked in excellent touch on Wednesday.</p>.<p class="bodytext">But he added just eight runs to his overnight score and had spent 28 deliveries on 68 when he was bowled by Ravindra Jadeja, who produced a classic left-arm spinner's delivery that turned away from the right-hander's forward defensive shot to leave England 159-2.</p>.<p class="bodytext">It was a sign of the increasing effectiveness of India's quicks that this was the first wicket taken by an India spinner this series, with off-break bowler Ravichandran Ashwin yet to feature during the current campaign.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Root, having made 109 in the rain-marred drawn first Test at Trent Bridge and a brilliant 180 not out at Lord's, looked in excellent touch again as he twice had Shami behind square on the offside for two fours in three balls.</p>.<p class="bodytext">England's players and the umpires all wore black armbands in memory of Ted Dexter after it was announced earlier Thursday that the former England captain had died aged 86.</p>
<p class="bodytext">India at last dismissed openers Rory Burns and Haseeb Hameed but England remained well-placed in the third Test at Headingley on Thursday.</p>.<p class="bodytext">England were 182-2 at lunch on the second day, a lead of 104 runs, having bowled the tourists out for just 78 following India captain Virat Kohli's decision to bat first on Wednesday.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Yorkshire batsmen Dawid Malan (27 not out) and England captain Joe Root (14 not out) were both unbeaten on their home ground.</p>.<p class="bodytext">But one regret for England, looking to level this five-match series at 1-1 after a 151-run defeat in the second Test at Lord's, was that neither Burns nor Hameed really pressed on after dominating India's attack on Wednesday.</p>.<p class="bodytext">England resumed on a commanding 120-0, after veteran spearhead James Anderson, with a return of 3-6 in eight overs, had ripped through India's top order to spark a dramatic collapse.</p>.<p class="bodytext">This was only the fifth time England's first wicket partnership had surpassed the all-out total of the team batting first, with Burns 52 not out overnight and Hameed 60 not out.</p>.<p class="bodytext">England's 22nd opening partnership since Andrew Strauss retired in 2012, posted only England's second century first-wicket stand in the past five years of Test cricket.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Left-hander Burns, however, had added just nine runs to his total when he was bowled playing down the wrong line to Mohammed Shami, with England now 135-1.</p>.<p class="bodytext">New batsman Malan, recalled following a three-year absence from Test cricket after England dropped the struggling Dom Sibley, got off the mark with a cover-driven boundary off Jasprit Bumrah and followed that shot up with two more fours off Mohammed Siraj.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Hameed, promoted to open in place of Burns after his five-year exile from Test cricket ended with him managed just nine runs in total at Lord's, had looked in excellent touch on Wednesday.</p>.<p class="bodytext">But he added just eight runs to his overnight score and had spent 28 deliveries on 68 when he was bowled by Ravindra Jadeja, who produced a classic left-arm spinner's delivery that turned away from the right-hander's forward defensive shot to leave England 159-2.</p>.<p class="bodytext">It was a sign of the increasing effectiveness of India's quicks that this was the first wicket taken by an India spinner this series, with off-break bowler Ravichandran Ashwin yet to feature during the current campaign.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Root, having made 109 in the rain-marred drawn first Test at Trent Bridge and a brilliant 180 not out at Lord's, looked in excellent touch again as he twice had Shami behind square on the offside for two fours in three balls.</p>.<p class="bodytext">England's players and the umpires all wore black armbands in memory of Ted Dexter after it was announced earlier Thursday that the former England captain had died aged 86.</p>