The primary day of the India vs England second Check was all about one man – Yashasvi Jaiswal. The younger left-handed opener stayed unbeaten 179* to make sure India attain 336/6 at stumps. Whereas not one of the different Indian batters together with Rohit Sharma, Shreyas Iyer, Shubman Gill couldn’t even contact 35, Jaiswal stood out along with his elegant innings. That is Yashasvi Jaiswal second century in Exams and with the best way he progressed, it seems to be like he is likely to be headed for an enormous innings on the second day of the match on Saturday.
Through the day’s play, information got here that former Indian cricket crew captain and batting nice Sunil Gavaskar’s mother-in-law had died. In accordance with studies and posts from veteran journalists, Sunil Gavaskar left the commentary and left for Kanpur after the information got here.
Mr Sunil Gavaskar has been bereaved, his mother-in-law has handed away. Mr Gavaskar, in Vizag for commentary, is now on technique to Kanpur. On Shanti
— Vijay Tagore (@vijaymirror) February 2, 2024
Speaking in regards to the day’s play, Yashasvi Jaiswal’s blitz inflicted woes on England’s bowling set-up on the primary day of the second Check towards England on Friday on the ACA-VDCA Cricket Stadium.
On the finish of Day 1, India managed to place up 336/6 on the board with Jaiswal and Ravichandran Ashwin unbeaten on scores of 179* and 5* respectively.
The Vizag continued to witness Jaiswal’s prowess with the bat, his maturity to carry on to his finish and maintain the scoreboard ticking whereas stitching up small but efficient partnerships.
Jaiswal’s composure noticed him have a tremendous steadiness between assault and defence. His 179* noticed him rating 17 boundaries and tonk 5 maximums which made England rethink their plans.
India stumbled thrice within the third session of the day with Rajat Patidar, Axar Patel and KS Bharat falling to England’s spin duo of Rehan Ahmed and Shoaib Bashir.
Patidar (32) was taken unexpectedly by Rehan’s full-length supply carried further bounce and ended up hitting him on the glove and fell to the bottom. Fortune wasn’t on Patidar’s facet in his bid to cease the ball from hitting the stumps however ended up kicking straight at it.
Axar joined Jaiswal on the crease and each batters managed to place up 52 runs on the board earlier than Axar noticed his minimize shot go straight into the palms of Rehan in Bashir’s over.
KS Bharat (17) additionally acquired dismissed in a similar way as he tried to chop however did not get the right timing. Ashwin and Jaiswal ensured that India did not lose additional wickets earlier than the stumps have been known as.
With ANI inputs
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