During the presentation ceremony after the defeat, a dejected Virat Kohli summed up his feelings by calling it a great game of cricket.
England outdid India by 31 runs at Edgbaston, Birmingham, to take a 1-0 lead in the five-match Test series on Saturday.
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Former India captain Sourav Ganguly said other batsmen need to take more responsibility for India to win the first Test against England in Birmingham.
While Ishant took five wickets, off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin scalped three as England added 171 runs to their overnight score of nine for one.
Chasing 194 to win the first Test against England, India were 110 for five at stumps on day three at Edgbaston, Birmingham, on Friday.
Virat Kohli has scored 22 Test hundreds in his illustrious career to date. But the superlative ton he scored on Thursday has to be his greatest Test innings till date.
Kohli's 149, which will rank amongst one of the finest hundreds by an Indian batsman on English soil, enabled the visitors to reach 274 thereby bringing down the first innings deficit to only 13 runs.
At stumps, England were 9 for 1 in their second innings with an overall lead of 22 runs.
India captain Virat Kohli running England skipper Joe Root out for 80 just after Tea sparked a collapse as the hosts lost six wickets for 67 runs to end the day on 285-9.
On the opening day of the first Test against England, Mohammed Shami took 2/64 while R Ashwin returned with figures of 4/60 to help India restrict England to 285/9.
Joe Root (80 runs off 156 balls, 9x4s) scored an unbeaten 41st Test half-century, but the English innings completely got derailed after his dismissal.
The two players were initially named in England's 13-man squad for the opening game of the five-match Test series against India at Edgbaston.
It was the eighth time Ashwin had dismissed the left-handed opener in Test cricket - joining Nathan Lyon on the list of spinners dismissing Alastair Cook most times in Test cricket.
Ravichandran Ashwin produced one of his impactful performance outside the sub-continent as India reduced England to 285 for nine on the opening day of the first Test in Birmingham.
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The Team India captain's words echoed that of coach Ravi Shastri who has gone on to say that he wants this Indian team to be the best travelling side in world cricket.
The Team India all-rounder believes that it is India who can beat England in their own backyard as they have plenty of options in their bowling unit and have learnt their lesson from the previous tour.
Kohli, who has scored runs in Australia, South Africa, apart from his home country, had a forgettable 2014 England tour when he was troubled by the seamers, particularly James Anderson.
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