Kuldeep took five wickets and Ashwin took four wickets, reducing England to 218.

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Hospice. Left-arm wrist spinner Kuldeep Yadav took a sensational five wickets on the first day of the fifth and final Test match at the HPCA Stadium on Thursday and off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin, playing his 100th Test, took four wickets to bowl out England for 218 runs in the first innings.

After winning the toss and batting first, England were in a comfortable position at 100 for two at lunch.

But he lost six wickets in the second session, reducing England’s score to 194/8 in 55 overs at tea.

After tea, Ashwin wrapped up England’s innings by taking two wickets in one over. Kuldeep took five wickets for 72 runs, Ashwin took four wickets for 51 runs and left arm spinner Ravindra Jadeja took one wicket for 17 runs.

After a good start, once again England’s middle order failed and that is why they were all out in 57.4 overs. All 10 wickets went to the spinners.

There was a session after lunch in which England scored 94 runs, but India had the upper hand by taking six wickets, with Kuldeep taking 5 wickets, including his 50th Test wicket. He took five wickets in an innings for the fourth time in his career.

The post-lunch session began with Jack Crawley escaping an inside edge to short leg on Kuldeep’s leg-break as India did not take DRS, with replays later showing a thin edge. He and Joe Root hit five fours between themselves, with Crawley escaping caught-and-bowled by Ravindra Jadeja.

But his innings ended on 79 runs when Kuldeep tempted him to drive, but the ball eluded him and entered the wicket. Jonny Bairstow, in his 100th Test match, got off to a great start with a leg-side boundary, but in an attempt to drive on Kuldeep’s delivery, he was caught behind by keeper Dhruv Jurel.

After this, Joe Root was out LBW by Jadeja’s slider and Kuldeep got his fifth wicket when his googly left Ben Stokes LBW in front of the stumps. It was a brilliant spell from Kuldeep, who bowled a mixture of googlies and leg-breaks while attracting batsmen on both the front and back foot, and in Dharamsala now became the second spinner after Australia’s Nathan Lyon to take a five-wicket haul in Tests.

Ravichandran Ashwin, playing his 100th Test match, had Tom Hartley caught at deep mid-wicket with a slog-sweep and Mark Wood was caught at slip, taking two wickets in three balls. In the final session, Ashwin took two wickets in one over and reduced England’s innings to 218 runs.

–IANS

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