IND vs ENG: Jasprit Bumrah’s six-wicket haul gives India dominant lead on Day 2

India walked away with a dominant lead towards England on Day 2 of the second Test match on Saturday. Yashasvi Jaiswal registered his maiden double hundred in Tests to assist India rating 396 of their first innings after which Jasprit Bumrah produced a memorable six-wicket haul to bowl out the visiting aspect on simply 253.

Yashasvi top-scored with 209 off 290 balls as India managed so as to add 60 extra runs on Day 2. Young spinners Shoaib Bashir and Rehan Ahmed took three wickets every whereas the returning veteran James Anderson scalped three for England.

England had been off to a promising begin with the opener Zak Crawley smashing 76 off simply 78. England added 59 runs for the opening wicket and 55 for the second wicket to maintain the sport balanced. But Bumrah’s sensational spell with the wickets of Joe Root and Ollie Pope within the second session shifted the momentum in direction of India.

Bumrah took six wickets for 45, his finest figures in Tests in India, and Kuldeep Yadav picked three to bowl out England on 253 in 55.5 overs. Then openers Rohit Sharma and Yashasvi Jaiswal added an unbeaten 28 runs in 5 overs to take the lead to 171 runs on the finish of the day’s play in Visakhapatnam. 

For England, captain Ben Stokes added essential 47 runs however the likes of Joe Root and Jonny Bairstow didn’t contribute once more. Bumrah marked his one hundred and fiftieth Test wicket with Stokes’ dismissal and have become the quickest pacer for India to choose 150 wickets in red-balls cricket. 

India Playing XI: Yashasvi Jaiswal, Rohit Sharma (c), Shubman Gill, Shreyas Iyer, Rajat Patidar, Srikar Bharat (wk), Ravichandran Ashwin, Axar Patel, Kuldeep Yadav, Jasprit Bumrah, Mukesh Kumar

England Playing XI: Zak Crawley, Ben Duckett, Ollie Pope, Joe Root, Jonny Bairstow, Ben Stokes (c), Ben Foakes (wk), Rehan Ahmed, Tom Hartley, Shoaib Bashir, James Anderson