Day 2 :
England continues to be in driver's seat as India still trail by 134 runs with 7 down.
219/7 : 73 Ov.
Post Tea :
Ben Stokes' England, especially both spinners kept pressure on team India throughout afternoon, post lunch. Made to struggle for every run.
India kept loosing wickets at regular intervals, failing to build a big partnership.
Inexperienced England spinners were on top post lunch.
Remember : England are yet to lose a Test series in the Bazball era 👀
Bashir bowled unchanged for his 4 wickets.
Confident Jurel 30* with Kuldeep 17* build useful partnership, upto the end of 42 runs off 106 .
201/7 : 61.3 Ov. Jurel 20* n Kuldeep 11*.
Ashwin lbw Hartley 1 : 177/7 : 55.2 Ov.
Hartley sends back over cautious Sarfaraz on 14. 171/6 : 51.3 over.
Jurel hits one over mid-on, early in the innings.
Sarfaraz survived lbw vs Hartley.
Big big blow : Yashasvi Jaiswal 73 : 161/5 .
47th over - still 192 behind.
Bashir strikes 4th time.
Misjudged length a bit - played back to Bashir and gets bowled from toe end of the bat to a ball which kept quite low.
Sarfaraz edges one through slip.
India very slow post tea, but Jaiswal continues to play confidently : 73 * : 155/4 : 45 overs.
Sarfaraz on 3 survived a close run out .
India desperately relying on Jaiswal, to score big again who has already crossed 600 in the series.
Tea : England on Top at the moment: 131/4 .
Inexperienced Bashir 15-2-32-3.
Yashasvi Jaiswal 54 not out with 5x4s n 1x6.
28 overs 97 runs and 3 wickets in session.
Over to Mumbai boys now : Sarfaraz in .
Cracks on pitch now backfiring: 130/4 .
Still 223 behind, as Bashir strikes 3rd time to get Jadeja on 12 with simple bat pad catch at short leg.
Hartley review vs Jadeja on 0 : Missing leg.
Jadu immediately hikes 2 sixes to open account.
Bashir strikes again Patidar lbw . 112/3 - 35 Ov.
Jaiswal gets to 50 off 89 : 105/2 : 31.2 Ov.
Young Bashir traps confident looking Shubman Gill on 38 : 86/2 - 24.1 Ov. Rajat Patidar in.
Jaiswal survived close caught behind call on 40, ball just bounced bit before gloves. 68/1:20 Ov.
India 50 in 18th over plus 50 Partnership too.
Lunch : 34/1 : 10 Overs.
Yashasvi Jaiswal is getting into his groove very early 27* ( 38 ). Shubman 4*.
Veteran Jimmy Anderson strikes on his 8th ball.
Rohit C Foakes B Anderson 2 (9) : 4/1 : 2.4 Ov.
Drawn bit forward to give simple edge behind.
Matches - 13
Innings - 22
Runs - 842
Average - 40.09
SR - 60.88
Fifties - 2
Hundreds - 3
Rohit Sharma has thrown away many starts in Test cricket in recent times.😞
England 353 : 104.5 Ov. Joe Root 122 not out.
Very good recovery by England through Joe Root, Foakes and Robinson after 112/5 at lunch on day 1.
Ravindra Jadeja wraps England innings with 3 wickets on 2nd morning: Anderson lbw 0.
England add 50 in 1st hour,for 2 wickets.
Double strike by Jadeja, Bashir removed on 2nd ball. 349/9.: Root 120*.
Jadeja gets Ollie Robinson 58 , caught behind on reverse sweep after 45 minutes of play : 347/8. Earlier England started 2nd morning very well with Robinson attacking the 2nd new ball , registered his 50 and partnership crossing 100 in no time.Pitch playing far better than expected so far for England batting .
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