India’s Yashasvi Jaiswal celebrates after scoring a double century in the course of the second day of the second Test match between India and England.
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England opener Zak Crawley was beneficiant in his reward of Jasprit Bumrah and Yashasvi Jaiswal after getting out on 76 on his twenty sixth birthday.
“Bumrah bowled unbelievably well,” Crawley mentioned after the second day’s play within the second Test. “It felt like a better wicket than last week batting on it at that point. But you have to hold your hand up sometimes and say that’s a fantastic spell in these conditions.”
He spoke extremely of Bumrah’s reverse-swing. “He has got that pace, the change-ups, he can swing it both ways, but the reverse-swing goes a lot later than normal swing,” Crawley mentioned. “It is just that little bit harder. He was getting it to go a long way today and he bowled some cracking deliveries.”
He is impressed with Yashasvi Jaiswal’s double hundred too. “It was an unbelievable innings,” Crawley mentioned about Yashasvi Jaiswal’s double ton. “He seems like a fantastic player. I am really a fan of the way he goes about it, he’s really aggressive and he is obviously going to be a very special player. No one else in the Indian innings got to 35 and there are some good players in that team. We spoke about that in the dressing room yesterday.”
