India v England: Nick Compton shines against Haryana in final warm-up before opening Test He was assured from the outset, and Cook had an air of command on his return as he hit 20 fours in all after sitting out his team's second tour match against Mumbai A last week. Having won the toss, Cook was under way with a string of early boundaries, three in one over including an uncharacteristically expansive cover-drive off Sanjay Budhwar. The left-arm seamer was playing his first first-class match for two years, after serious injury. But it was a measure of the quality, or otherwise, of England's hosts that he was nonetheless arguably the pick of the pace bowlers. Compton was more circumspect than his captain, less so after an authoritative early off-drive off Budhwar. There was scarcely an alarm for either batsman, although Compton did edge one four wide of the slips off Amit Vashisht on 19. He also drove especially well through the off-side against seam and was quick to go up the wicket to off-spinner Yadav, from where he struck a six over long-off to follow Cook to 50 soon after lunch - having also hit six fours from 88 balls. The captain was within one more blow of his hundred when he edged an attempted cut behind off Yadav, the curiosity of the dismissal being that Sandeep Singh took the catch from the very first delivery after replacing the injured Nitin Saini as wicketkeeper. Compton was joined by Jonathan Trott, a partnership which took England past 200. But Mishra at last decided to bring himself on - at 211 for one after 50 overs - and it took only seven deliveries before he had Compton lbw pushing well forward to a quicker ball. Kevin Pietersen, in his second innings back since his well-chronicled summer of discontent and subsequent 'reintegration' into the team, kept Trott company till tea.