India vs England: Day 2 – Jaiswal’s half-century, India’s 219/7

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Ranchi. Thanks to the brilliant half-century of in-form Yashasvi Jaiswal (73) and an unbeaten partnership of 42 runs for the eighth wicket between Dhruv Jurail (30 not out) and Kuldeep Yadav (17 not out), India won against England on the second day of the fourth Test on Saturday. Scored 219 runs for seven wickets.

The second day of the match was also in the name of England. While the English batsmen had put them ahead on the first day, today was the day of the bowlers. Both their young spinners were excellent, especially Shoaib Bashir, who took four wickets. From the other end, Tom Hartley also shook the Indian innings by taking two wickets. In the last hour of the day, UP duo Dhruv Jurel and Kuldeep Yadav have tried to handle the Indian innings, but it remains to be seen how far they can take the Indian innings tomorrow morning. Indian innings is still 134 runs behind.

Jaiswal once again took charge and hit eight fours and a six in his innings of 73 runs in 117 balls. He added 82 runs for the second wicket with Shubman Gill (38). But after this partnership broke, the Indian innings faltered and it lost four wickets while reaching 130 runs. Jaiswal added 31 runs with Sarfaraz Khan for the fifth wicket. But India suffered a major blow after Jaiswal was out on the team score of 161.

India then lost the wickets of Sarfaraz and Ravichandran Ashwin for 177 runs. Sarfaraz scored 14 runs and Ashwin scored one run. In the last session, Jurail and Kuldeep played cautiously and took India to 219.

India slipped from a comfortable position of 86/1 to 130/4 in the second session as Bashir took 3 wickets in the session. The session began with Shubman Gill effortlessly driving Bashir through extra cover for four runs, before he flicked James Anderson for two boundaries. Jaiswal continued his solid performance by lofting Bashir over long-on for six and when Ollie Robinson extracted an outside edge, it hit the ground before going into the hands of keeper Ben Fox.

Fox thought he had taken a clean catch, but replays showed that the ball had hit the ground before reaching his gloves. Gill hit back-to-back fours off Ollie Robinson but Bashir had him out LBW through a delivery which came in sharply. Gill went for a review, but replays showed the ball hitting the stumps, ending his 82-run partnership with Jaiswal, who got his fourth fifty-plus score of the series with a single off Tom Hartley.

Rajat Patidar hit four fours in quick succession, but he was lbw to Bashir, who skied outside off. DRS showed the ball hitting the leg-stump, impacting the umpire’s call, meaning Patidar’s stand ended on 17 runs.

After avoiding LBW review on the previous ball, Ravindra Jadeja (12) hit consecutive sixes on the leg side off Hartley. But Bashir bowled a good length ball to a top spinner and got some extra bounce which caught Jadeja’s inside edge and the ball went to Ollie Pope at short leg, giving him his third wicket.

Earlier in the morning session, England scored 353 runs in the first innings. Joe Root remained unbeaten on 122 runs. In reply to England’s 353, India lost captain Rohit Sharma early when he was caught by wicketkeeper Ben Foakes off a length ball from James Anderson.

England added 51 runs in the morning to reach 302/7, with Ollie Robinson scoring 58, also his first half-century in this format. But they lost their last three wickets for six runs in the space of 17 balls, three of which were picked up by Ravindra Jadeja, India’s stand-out bowler with 4-67.

Leading at 112/5 at lunch on the first day, England will be content with a score above 350. Robinson started the morning of the second day with an unbeaten 31 runs and hit a four to Mohammed Siraj. Shortly afterwards, India took the second new ball, but Robinson continued to hit boundaries – cutting, driving and hitting three fours off Akashdeep. Robinson completed his maiden Test half-century by sweeping Ravindra Jadeja over square leg for four runs. But Robinson attempted a reverse-sweep off the left-arm spinner, which clipped his gloves before going past keeper Dhruv Jurel, who took a sharp low catch, ending his 102-run partnership with Root. happened.

Three balls later, Shoaib Bashir bowled a powerful slog off Jadeja, but the leading edge was caught at backward point. Anderson was the last man out LBW in an attempt to sweep Jadeja, with Root’s unbeaten 122 being the highlight of England’s first innings.

–IANS

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