ENG vs IND: Gill scored 147 runs playing captaincy innings
ENG vs IND 1st Test: The first match of the ongoing Test series between England and India is being played at Headingley ground in Leeds from 20 June. Today, on the second day of the game, after batting 113 overs, India’s innings was reduced to a total of 471 runs.
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ENG vs IND: Team India, which dominated the English bowlers on the first day of the game, batted commendably today too, but after the dismissal of Shubman Gill and Rishabh Pant, the Indian players could not add many runs. After the dismissal of these two, the English bowlers also performed brilliantly. Ben Stokes and Josh Tongue took 4-4 wickets.
ENG vs IND: Jaiswal-Gill-Pant trio hit centuries
ENG vs IND: On the other hand, even though Team India lost the toss in the match, the Indian batsmen performed brilliantly in the first innings. For Team India, the trio of openers Yashasvi Jaiswal (101), Shubman Gill (147) and wicketkeeper Rishabh Pant (134) played centuries.
Also, KL Rahul contributed 42 runs, while Ravindra Jadeja could score only 11 runs. However, Sai Sudarshan (0). Karun Nair (0), Shardul Thakur (1), Jasprit Bumrah (0) and Prasidh Krishna (1) were dismissed early. Mohammad Siraj remained unbeaten after scoring 3 runs.
On the other hand, after being beaten by the Indian batsmen on the first day of the match, the English bowlers bowled brilliantly on the second day of the game. As soon as the 209-run partnership between Gill and Pant ended, England’s fast bowlers started tightening the screws on India.
Gill was dismissed at a total score of 430 runs, and that was the fourth wicket of the Indian innings, but after this Team India lost a total of 6 wickets within 41 runs. Ben Stokes and Josh Tongue took 4-4 wickets. Also, Brydon Carse and Shoaib Bashir got 1-1 wickets.
After this, after India was all out for 471 runs in the first innings, when England came out to chase this target, the game had to be stopped due to rain.
