DHARAMSALA, India - Zak Crawley gave England a decent start but the tourists lost vice-captain Ollie Pope on the stroke of lunch and slipped to 100-2 on the opening day of the fifth and final test against India on Thursday.

Crawley was batting on 61, his fourth half-century of the series, while Kuldeep Yadav claimed the wickets of both Pope (11) and opener Ben Duckett (27).