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Honours even as India end Day 1 of 2nd Test against England on 336/6

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Jaiswal has put India in the front seat at the end of the day play.
 
Jaiswal has done a Pope, singlehandedly saved India's backside in this game. India should start thinking of looking further than Rohit, Gill, etc. There are so many domestic batters who are not given chances while these dinosaurs keep blocking spot in the national team.

They can easily play in the domestics and get their form back instead of damaging India's reputation at home.

(I am sure both will score 100's to prove me wrong in the next innings)
 
All our spinners can bat well. India should try Washington ASAP because of all the spinners, he is probably the best batsman especially in overseas conditions where spinners don't do that well.
 
Looks like this game is in India's bag. The pitch would start breaking on the third day.
 
India is the only place where I have seen more than 90 overs bowled in 6 hours.

Other countries seem to struggle to get 90 overs done even in 6.5 hours.
 
MANU ROY said:
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Even in the first test I mentioned that England would score more in the second innings as the pitch would ease out on the third day.
Let's see what happens!
 
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India v England: Yashasvi Jaiswal hundred keeps tourists at bay

England admirably clung on to India, despite Yashasvi Jaiswal making a sublime century on the opening day of the second Test in Visakhapatnam.

Opener Jaiswal batted throughout the day for his 179, leading the home side to 336-6.

The left-hander's knock prevented India, 1-0 down after losing a thrilling first Test, from completely wasting their advantage of winning the toss and batting first on a good pitch.

Jaiswal shared in three separate partnerships in excess of 50, but his team-mates wasted starts. The six men dismissed were all out for between 14 and 34.

Shoaib Bashir, the 20-year-old on debut, was the best of England's four spinners and picked up his maiden Test wicket when Rohit Sharma was caught at leg slip.

James Anderson, now into his 22nd consecutive year as a Test cricketer, bowled brilliantly as the sole seamer and claimed the wicket of Shubman Gill.

Bashir nipped in late in the day for his second, having Axar Patel caught at point, then Rehan Ahmed did the same to KS Bharat to leave England with real hope of limiting India to something manageable.

If England's win in Hyderabad was remarkable, then this long day in the field was more typical of a tour of India. For the tourists to take six wickets perhaps means they had the better of it.

Bar Anderson, this England attack is vastly inexperienced. This was only the second time in Test history that England have had two bowlers - Ahmed and Bashir - under the age of 21.

And yet, England stuck to their task. There was the occasional bad ball and error in the field, but it says much about their spirit they were able to chip away at the other end, while Jaiswal compiled his masterful knock.

Perhaps mindful of the wasteful way they batted in the first innings in Hyderabad, India ground it out, often below three runs an over. One wonders how England might have approached their batting in such conditions.

The pitch currently seems true, with the potential to deteriorate quickly later in the match. When England come to bat, they must make their first innings count.

Ultimately, India were indebted to Jaiswal and, even despite his knock, England could yet run through the lower-order and then bat well enough to earn a first-innings lead.

Jaiswal is the rising star of Indian cricket, one with a backstory to match his incredible talent. At the age of 12 he moved to Mumbai to further his cricket and sold street food to get by.

Spotted by a coach playing at one of the famous maidans, he was set on a course to be player of the tournament at the 2020 Under-19 World Cup, after which he signed a huge deal to play for Rajasthan Royals in the Indian Premier League.

Now he is illuminating the Test format. This was his second hundred in only his sixth Test, laced with handsome strokes through the off side. Two of his four sixes were glorious lofts over extra cover and another, over long-on off Tom Hartley, took Jaiswal to three figures.

Bar a flurry of 41 runs off 30 balls in the run-up to his century, Jaiswal's scoring was measured. He added 90 with Shreyas Iyer and 70 with debutant Rajat Patidar. Joe Root, at slip, got fingertips on flashing edges when Jaiswal had 73 and 155.

When Axar somehow cut Bashir to point deep into the evening session, England had the opportunity to make it their day.

KS Bharat arrived and attacked but he too fell to a loose one from Ahmed, leaving Ravichandran Ashwin to support Jaiswal to the close.

Bashir's route to Test cricket matches the romance of Jaiswal's. Released by Surrey and picked up by Somerset, he was playing club cricket last summer. After being spotted on Twitter by Ben Stokes he was identified as an option for this tour, but a visa delay meant him he did not arrive until Sunday.

Even then, Bashir was comfortably England's best spinner, showing just why he was given a debut after only six first-class matches. He needed less than four overs to find the turn that persuaded Rohit Sharma to push to leg slip and the 20-year-old celebrated with a howl to the sky.

In contrast to Bashir's youthfulness, 41-year-old Anderson is the oldest seamer to ever play a Test in India. He was excellent throughout - controlled, skilful and miserly. He drew Gill into an edge behind.

Hartey could not match his heroics of Hyderabad, but at least had Shreyas brilliantly taken off an under-edge by Ben Foakes. Root opened the bowling but bowled like a batter, while Ahmed was tidy enough when he was finally used, causing Patidar to play on.

England could have flagged as Jaiswal and Axar inched on, but Bashir was rewarded for his persistence, with one of his worst deliveries claiming the wicket of Axar.

Ahmed's dismissal of Bharat was almost a carbon copy and, with the lower order exposed, England have the second new ball available on Saturday should they require it.

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I don't think honours are even. India are quite a bit ahead in the game.
 
Ab Fan said:
Useless selection. Picking Mukesh over Sundar and asking Bharat to bat at 6. The guy only plays at home and still can't score a 50 to save his life.
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He played 11 innings no fifty jithesh sanju dhruv jurel won't be this bad even wriddhiman saha will play better than him
 
Alastair Cook:

Yashasvi Jaiswal was absolutely outstanding. The rest of the India team were 158-6 on a pretty good wicket. If you take him out of the side their fragile batting line-up is still there.

He's delivered when his side need it. It was an innings of maturity and skill beyond his 22 years.

I wonder if England could bowl a bit wider at him. It might leak some runs but it would add more risk.
 
Does anyone think this surface will become real difficult by say Day 4 ?
 
India lost too many wickets for those 336 runs they scored. Not good from India at all. There was no spin in the wicket. The only thing that is helping bowlers is the uneven bounce. Some are staying low and some are bouncing more.

India has to some how score another 100 runs from here or it will be advantage England. Not much batting to come after these two. Kuldeep, Mukesh and Bumrah are useless with the bat. How we wish Sundar was playing instead of useless Mukesh.
 
Human786 said:
Does anyone think this surface will become real difficult by say Day 4 ?
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Even if the surface starts breaking down after Day-3, it will still be slow spin. Easy to read the ball after it pitches. The only thing to watch out for is the low bounce. Ball seems to be dying after pitching even on Day-1.

Even Bumrah will be useless on this wicket I feel. So Mukesh will be a passenger.
 
At the stumps of Day 1 of the 2nd Test between India and England, Ashwin was engaged in an argument with the umpire. What happened there?

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FearlessRoar said:
At the stumps of Day 1 of the 2nd Test between India and England, Ashwin was engaged in an argument with the umpire. What happened there?

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My guess is England bowled 93 overs. 3 overs more than normal. :unsure:
 
Vizag wicket is known to hold itself together for all 5 days. Last Test played here was heading for a draw until Shami went on a reverse swing role on day 5 against South Africa in 2019.

Unless Kuldeep does his magic, hard to see how India can pick 20 wickets against this England side.
 
Handsdown one of the worst batting unit I have seen from India in a long time. To lose 10 wickets to this bowling attack itself is a crime. They have lost 26 wickets so far in this series. This is such a rookie attack with no real threatening skills or even purchase from the wicket. I think Pakistan batting against spin looks a bit better than India's at this point. 75% of the wickets are soft dismissals. Hope they pound these overpaid players one more time in the series and expose them. Indian spinning all rounders carried these guys far too long. They have on the wrong side of 30. Can't carry them forever.
 
Champ_Pal said:
Even if the surface starts breaking down after Day-3, it will still be slow spin. Easy to read the ball after it pitches. The only thing to watch out for is the low bounce. Ball seems to be dying after pitching even on Day-1.

Even Bumrah will be useless on this wicket I feel. So Mukesh will be a passenger.
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Draw hoga ?
 
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