Birmingham: With the help of opener Yashasvi Jaiswal and captain Shubman Gill’s excellent knocks India reached 310 runs losing 5 wickets at stumps on day one of second Anderson-Tendulkar Trophy Test against England at Edgbaston on Wednesday.
Gill hit his seventh Test ton while Jaiswal struck 87 runs off 107 balls. After losing couple of quick wickets just after Tea break, Gill put on a healthy partnership with Ravinder Jadeja in the later part of the day by adding unbeaten 99 runs from 142 balls for the sixth wicket. Jadeja remained unbeaten at 41.
Earlier, Jaiswal's promising knock ended in him making 87 as India reached 182/3 in 53 overs at tea.
It was a session where old-fashioned attritional cricket took centrestage, as India made 84 runs in 28 overs. Though Jaiswal fell 13 runs short of his sixth Test hundred, Gill continued to hold fort in his unbeaten 109-ball knock laced with just three boundaries. With Rishabh Pant unbeaten on 14 off 28 balls, India will look to pile more runs, as another session of toil awaits England's bowlers.
The second session began with Gill and Jaiswal picking up singles whenever an opportunity came. While Jaiswal got a boundary by slicing over the slips, Gill got his boundaries off edges through gully twice, while being severely tested on playing around his front pad.
Woakes continues to test Gill around the middle stump line in the hope of getting him playing across his front pad, but the Indian skipper, batting outside the crease, handled it well with his sturdy forward defence. With Tongue and Bashir coming in, Jaiswal and Gill got a four each as they brought up the fifty-run partnership.
But Stokes once again pulled a rabbit out of a hat to get England a vital breakthrough, as Jaiswal tried to cut one away outside off and got a thin edge behind to keeper Jamie Smith, with the England skipper ecstatic in his celebration.
Brief Scores: India 310/5 in 85 overs (Yashasvi Jaiswal 87, Shubman Gill 114 not out, Rishabh Pant 25, Ravinder Jadeja 41no, KL Rahul 2, Karun Nair 31, Nitish Reddy 1, Brydon Carse 1-49, Ben Stokes 1-58, Chris Woakes 259). Agencies
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