India’s Dhruv Jurel jumps to gather a throw on the first day of the fifth and last take a look at match between England and India in Dharamshala, India, Thursday, March 7, 2024. (AP Photo/Ashwini Bhatia)
Jurel made his presence on the subject rely with an unimaginable piece of glovework following some sharp anticipation of English batter Ollie Pope’s motion at the crease, which led to his stumping.
Team India received off to a superb begin to the fifth and last Test of the ongoing sequence in opposition to England at Dharamshala on Thursday as the dwelling aspect bundled out the Englishmen for 218 runs on the opening day of the fixture.
Indian wicketkeeper Dhruv Jurel made his presence on the subject rely with an unimaginable piece of glovework following some sharp anticipation of English batter Ollie Pope’s motion at the crease, which led to his stumping.
England gained the toss and opted to bowl as Indian spinners starred with ten wickets cut up between Kuldeep Yadav, who claimed 5 wickets, Ravichandran Ashwin, who bagged 4 scalps and Ravindra Jadeja, who picked 1.
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Left-arm spinner Kuldeep labored his magic to get India the breakthrough as he removed Ben Duckett after the English opener had made 27 runs thanks to Shubman Gill’s secure pair of arms. Pope was subsequent to fall as Kuldeep foxed the Englishman together with his turner and Jurel adopted by means of with a superb thumping to ship him packing.
Zak Crawley, the solely Englishman to cross the half-century mark on the day together with his 79 runs was additionally eliminated by Kuldeep as the Indian castled the English opener. Bairstow was the leggie’s subsequent sufferer as he was dismissed for 29 runs earlier than Jadeja received his scalp with the dismissal of Joe Root for 26 runs.
Kuldeep accomplished his fifer with the removing of English skipper Ben Stokes earlier than Ashwin took management to wipe out the opposition tail with the dismissal of Tom Hartley, Mark Wood, Ben Foakes and James Anderson, whereas Shoib Bashir remained unbeaten on 11 runs as the English first innings was wrapped up for 218.
Indian openers Rohit Sharma and Yashasvi Jaiswal got here out to bat and made a 50-plus stand for the opening wicket as the skipper and the left-hander made an electrical begin to the hosts first innings at the picturesque cricket stadium in Dharamshala.
