IND vs ENG Highlights, 2nd Test Day 1: Jaiswal’s mammoth ton takes India to 336/6 at Stumps

England clawed its way back into the contest with the wickets of Axar Patel and Srikar Bharat in the final session of the day. Both got half-trackers and they were distraught to have gifted their wickets away. Yashasvi Jaiswal continued to fight through and goes unbeaten on 179 runs. R Ashwin is with him and he is the last recognised batter. Anything below 500 would leave India underwhelmed. England meanwhile will be focused on getting the four wickets in the first session and take a shot at obtaining a first-innings lead.

Final over of the day. Rehan to Ashwin. FOUR! Ashwin, out of nowhere, heaves away a full delivery through the on side.

Ravichandran Ashwin picks his first run with a drive to mid off. Two runs from this Bashir over.

Jaiswal uses his crease to tuck away a half-volley down to fine leg, one run taken. BHARAT DEPARTS! Slashed straight to backward point. India is six down

Srikar Bharat c Bashir b Rehan 17 (23)

SIX! Bharat takes a leaf out of his partner’s book. Connects a slog sweep against Bashir and gets the most out of it.

FOUR more for Bharat. Rehan drops one too short and Bharat latches onto it in a flash to pull it away through mid wicket. An edge now off Bharat’s bat which runs past first slip, three runs taken. Jaiswal glances to fine leg for two runs. SIX! A massive hoist down the ground from Jaiswal. 

FOUR! Bharat clears his front leg and slog sweeps Bashir to get off the mark in style. 

Jaiswal slaps Bashir’s delivery to deep cover for a single. CAUGHT! Axar Patel finds the backward point fielder on his attempted cut shot. He is in absolute disbelief. 

Axar Patel c Rehan b Bashir 27 (51)

A fifty partnership comes up between Axar and Jaiswal as the singles continue to come. India gets to 300 too in the same over. Five runs from Bashir’s over.

Five singles from Rehan Ahmed’s over. The leg spinner is getting the ball to grip thereby leading to a few miscued shots. 

Some discomfort for Axar Patel. He calls on the physio to have a look which causes a brief pause in play. CHANCE! Jaiswal goes for a wild swing on the final delivery of Bashir’s over. The ball grips and turns causing the southpaw to miss his slog. 

Rehan Ahmed allows just two singles in his over.

FOUR! Lucky for Jaiswal. He slashes and the edge is put down by Joe Root at first slip. Bashir can do nothing but give a helpless look. Five runs from the over.

Root to continue after the drinks break. FOUR! Axar hangs back and carves it throught mid wicket. The last delivery stays low and Axar manages to get his bat down in the nick of time.

Shoaib Bashir into the attack. He’s getting the ball to turn slightly away from the left-handers. Jaiswal-Axar take out five runs off the over - all in the deep third region. 

Anderson gets a break. Joe Root into the attack. Jaiswal drives and reaches his 150!! Splendid innings this by the 22-year-old. Axar too finds a boundary towards midwicket. Consecutive boundaries for Axar, this time towards square leg. 

Axar gets his first boundary of the innings with a pull against Rehan’s half-tracker. Four runs from the over. 

Axar taking his time. Jaiswal is nearing his 150. Just two runs off the Anderson over. 

Anderson getting the ball to move just a tad bit into the left handers. He’s giving away nothing for Axar and Jaiswal to score. 

OUT! How unlucky. Patidar is bowled. Defended the ball, but it bounces straight into the stumps. Took a bit of time for the ball to reach the stumps after bouncing. India has lost its fourth wicket. Rehan Ahmed gets his first. 

Axar Patel at the crease now. He too almost chops on! 

Rehan has been the only bowler today against whom Indian batters are looking to score quickly. Bowling half-trackers hasn’t helped him either. 

Jaiswal opens arms against Rehan and sends the ball towards extra covers for a SIX. Ends the over with a cut past point for four. 

Anderson searching for the reverse swing. Coming in to bowl by hiding the ball. Not much movement though. Indian batters looking in no hurry. 

Anderson from the other end. Bowls a maiden. Tight lines. 

Rehan Ahmed to start the session with his leg spin. Two singles in that over. 

Jaiswal and Patidar walking in for the last session of the day. India will start at 225/3. 

FOUR! Jaiswal threads the third man and point fielder with a late cut against Bashir.

Rehan Ahmed finally in to bowl his first over. He gives just three singles.

Patidar unveils a reverse sweep off Joe Root to collect his second boundary. Another one! This time takes his front foot to the pitch of the ball and drives it through covers.

FOUR! Patidar opens the face of the bat against Bashit and gets the ball past the point fielder. Five runs from the over.

A change in attack for England. Joe Root for his 11th over. Still no sign of Rehan Ahmed. Patidar drives to deep cover for a single. Jaiswal slashes hard, gets an edge and picks a single. Patidar picks a single with a clip to mid wicket. That’s the 200 for India. Two more singles before the over ends.

Patidar places the ball in the gap deep on the off side but quick ground coverage from the fielder in the deep keeps it down to just one run.

A single each for Jaiswal and Patidar in the over from Bashir.

Hartley to continue. His first delivery is straying down leg and Jaiswal gets a feather on it to send it all the way down to the fence. Another step down from Jaiswal but his slog takes a thick outside edge and just beats third man, two runs. 

Bashir to Patidar. Clips it off his back foot to mid wicket and picks a single. FOUR! Jaiswal hits inside out but keeps it down, pierces the gap between the mid on and cover fielders. A single off the final ball makes it six from the over.

FOUR! Iyer gets to the pitch of this full-length delivery from Hartley and raps it through mid on. GONE! Iyer hands a nick to Foakes. Tries to cut a short and wide delivery but the ball kept low and takes and under-edge. 

Shreyas Iyer c Foakes b Hartley 27(59)

Rajat Patidar is the new man in. Patidar gets off the mark with a glance to short fine leg.

Bashir gives away just two singles in the next over. A bit of a mix up between Iyer and Jaiswal on the final delivery. The latter drives to mid off and starts jogging for a single while the former is ball watching. He turns back just in time to avoid any trouble.

HUNDRED FOR JAISWAL! He comes down the track and heaves Hartley over long on. A century in 151 deliveries, the second one of his short career so far. Nine runs from the over.

Bashir again. Jaiswal drives the second delivery through cover for a single. Iyer plays out the remaining five deliveries in the over.

Three more added to the total. India has seen an increase in run rate in the last 20 minutes of the session. Overall, England controlled the scoring rate in the first hour of this session. 

Jaiswal has upped the ante and is now into his 90s. He attacked Hartley for three consecutive boundaries and also hit four against Hartley as well. 

Both Shreyas and Jaiswal are visibly looking to get a move on. Iyer has been shuffling (read dancing) inside the crease a lot to make room and disturb the rhythm of the bowlers. Jaiswal too is looking to open his arms. A SIX over covers to end the Root over. 

Hartley has a change in ends. He replaces Anderson. Two runs off the over. 

And Root is back replacing Hartley. Iyer welcomes him back with a pull towards square leg for four. Five singles make it nine runs off the over. 

England bowlers have been right on the money. Not giving away any loose deliveries. Indians playing the waiting game. 

Hartley replaces Root after just one over. Iyer and Jaiswal add three more singles to the score. 

Anderson from the other end. England going in with the short ball field for Iyer. Only a single in that over. Not much movement out there for Anderson. 

Joe Root to begin the proceedings in the afternoon session. Two singles in the over. 

Yashasvi Jaiswal walks back a happy man with his unbeaten 51 off 92 deliveries. He gave a steady start to the innings before watching an over-cautious partner, Rohit Sharma, give away his wicket softly. Shubman Gill brought a bit of a move to the innings but James Anderson sent him back just on the stroke of the break. A pretty even session this one. India would be content with its 100-plus total from the 30 odd overs while England would be delighted with two wickets that fell in the session. Shoaib Bashir marked his debut with the wicket of Rohit Sharma, and continued in tandem with Tom Hartley to keep the run flow in check. 

FOUR! Shreyas Iyer plays out fiive dot balls in this Anderson over but bookends it with a dream on drive past the mid on fielder. That’s the end of the first session.

SIX! Jaiswal absolutely latches on to this full toss from Bashir. The ball lands on the second tier over the long on fence. FOUR! FIFTY FOR JAISWAL! Cuts a shorter length and a misfield at deep point by Rehan Ahmed gets him to the landmark.

FOUR! Anderson once more induces an edge from Gill. This one is closer to the first slip fielder but still wide enough. WICKET! Anderson has the last laugh. Gill reaches out feeling at a delivery only to get and edge and leave caught behind. The partnership ends at 49 runs. 

Shubman Gill c Foakes b Anderson 34 (46)

Shreyas Iyer joins the action. Blocks an inswinging delivery to see out the over.

Gill growing in confidence. Slog sweeps Bashir’s good-length delivery behind square to pocket four runs. Now four more through the off side. 10 runs in the over.

FOUR! Gill pokes at a delivery outside off, it does not move much but takes a thick edge and runs away to the fence. Five runs from James Anderson’s return over.

Bashir again. Gill charges down and hits it along the ground for a single to mid wicket. Jaiswal drives to long off for the second run of the over.

Hartley to continue. A gentle push from Gill on the on side and Jaiswal pushes him for a single. Jaiswal steps out but the eventual pulling back of length from the bowler allows him only a punch to long on for one run. Gill punches the final delivery to deep cover for another single.

Four singles in the next over from Bashir.

Gill leans in and flicks Hartley past the mid wicket fielder and collects two runs. 

Top Edge! Jasiwal goes for another sweep against Bashir but gets a leading edge. Luckily for him, it is well wide of the short fine leg fielder. Three singles from that over.

Just a single from Hartley’s over. Keeps it at a stump to stump length, prompting defence from the Indian duo.

Jaiswal goes on his backfoot to punch Bashir to long off for a single. Another run from the over, this time for Gill.

Gill clips Hartley’s overpitched delivery to square leg to pick one. FOUR! Jaiswal brings out the sweep to drill the bowler through the on side. He clips the next behind square to run three. Gill pummels a full toss through mid wicket for FOUR!

Hartley fires in a yorker to Jaiswal who just about manages to get his bat down in time. Shouts of leg before too but it looked to be going over. 

WICKET! Rohit Sharma is caught at leg slip off Shoaib Bashir. He tries to play with the spin and budge the ball down the leg but there is a fielder in place for that very shot. Rohit Sharma’s watchful stay in the middle comes to an end.

Rohit Sharma c Pope b Shoaib Bashir 14 (41)

Shubman Gill gets off the mark in the same over. 

Hartley is back and he’s bowling with Bashir. Indian batters still looking for the bad balls. Good bowling in the first hour by England. 

Tom Hartley bowled one over before Root replaced him again. In between, debutant Shoaib Bashir bowled for the first time in Tests. 

A sedate start for India. Anderson and Root not giving away easy runs. Rohit and Jaiswal too are happy defend and play the waiting game. 

After boundaries in the first two overs, the scoring rate has dropped down. Root and Anderson have been bowling tight lines. 

Joe Root from the other end. Wide, half tracker and Jaiswal smacks it for four on the first ball. Another drive gets Jaiswal another boundary of the over.

Anderson to Jaiswal, down the leg. No movement of any sorts so far. A single on the last ball to get the scoreboard ticking. 

Rohit Sharma and Yashasvi Jaiswal come out to open the innings. James Anderson to open the bowling for England. 

England - Zak Crawley, Ben Duckett, Ollie Pope, Joe Root, Jonny Bairstow, Ben Stokes (c), Ben Foakes (wk), Rehan Ahmed, Tom Hartley, Shoaib Bashir, James Anderson 

India - Yashasvi Jaiswal, Rohit Sharma(c), Shubman Gill, Rajat Patidar, Shreyas Iyer, Srikar Bharat(w), Ravichandran Ashwin, Axar Patel, Jasprit Bumrah, Mukesh Kumar, Kuldeep Yadav

India wins the toss and opts to bat. 

Three changes for India - KL Rahul, Ravindra Jadeja, and Mohammed Siraj out; Rajat Patidar, Kuldeep Yadav, and Mukesh Kumar in

Eoin Morgan: The wicket looks like a beauty to bat on. The top layer in black soil, below is red soil. There will be turn but not too much on Day 1. Certainly a win toss, bat first wicket. Both sides will play plenty of spinners but we expect the spinners to come into the contest later. The first two days certainly better for batting.

The confirmation comes in. It will be Rajat Patidar who will debut for India today

Matches played: 132

India wins: 31

Drawn: 50

England wins: 51

WICKET-KEEPER

KS Bharat, Jonny Bairstow

BATTERS

Ben Duckett, Ollie Pope, Yashasvi Jaiswal

ALL-ROUNDERS

Joe Root (VC), R Ashwin (C), Axar Patel

BOWLERS

Jasprit Bumrah, James Anderson, Tom Hartley

Team Composition: IND 5: 6 ENG Credits Left: 13.5

The coastal city of Visakhapatnam will be the next port of call for England’s Bazball, which faces a test of endurance and sustainability against an Indian side keen to keep its legacy at home intact against the tides of revolution.

FULL PRVIEW BY DHRUVA PRASAD:

IND vs ENG, 2nd Test: India eyes redemption against high-flying England in Vizag

After the 28-run win in Hyderabad, a high-flying England and its ‘Bazball’ approach faces a test of endurance and sustainability in Visakhapatnam against an Indian side keen to keep its legacy at home intact against the tides of revolution.

As it has done in the recent past, the Three Lions put out their playing eleven on the eve of the contest. 

Zak Crawley, Ben Duckett, Ollie Pope, Joe Root, Jonny Bairstow, Ben Stokes (C), Ben Foakes, Rehan Ahmed, Tom Hartley, Shoaib Bashir, James Anderson

IN - James Anderson, Shoaib Bashir | OUT - Mark Wood, Jack Leach

England: Zak Crawley, Ben Duckett, Ollie Pope, Joe Root, Jonny Bairstow, Ben Stokes(c), Ben Foakes(wk), Mark Wood, Ollie Robinson, Jack Leach, James Anderson, Daniel Lawrence, Gus Atkinson, Tom Hartley, Rehan Ahmed, Shoaib Bashir

India: Yashasvi Jaiswal, Rohit Sharma(c), Shubman Gill, Rajat Patidar, Shreyas Iyer, Sarfaraz Khan, Washington Sundar, Ravichandran Ashwin, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammed Siraj, Mukesh Kumar, Srikar Bharat (wk), Dhruv Jurel, Avesh Khan, Kuldeep Yadav, Axar Patel

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