Test Cricket: India 336/6 at stumps on day one against England in 2nd Test match at Visakhapatnam

India were 336 for the loss of six wickets in their first innings at stumps on day one against England in the second Test match at Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh. The hosts won the toss and decided to bat first. Young sensation Yashasvi Jaiswal remained not out at 179 with 5 sixes and 17 fours while Ravichandran Ashwin was unbeaten at 5. This was Jaiswal’s second test century.

For England, Shoiab Bashir and Rehan Ahmed picked up two wickets each, while James Anderson and Tom Hartley bagged one wicket each.

Team India made three changes to their squad. Seamer Mohammed Siraj has been rested. Kuldeep Yadav and Mukesh Kumar were included in the playing eleven.

Rajat Patidar made his international test debut.

England is leading the five test match series by 1-0 after winning the first Test at Hyderabad. 

Yashasvi Jaiswal’s second Test ton offset some of the mistakes that India’s other batters committed after opting to bat on day one of the Vizag Test.

Jaiswal, after a fifty in the first Test, applied himself more in the second and worked his way to a stroke-filled hundred, getting to the landmark with an emphatic six over long on. The left-handed opener was the glue around which India’s batting revolved on a pitch that held no demons. He had partners stitching together stands but throwing it away eventually.

At the start of play, so intent was skipper Rohit Sharma in the defending that he missed out on a few boundary opportunities when the spinners erred with their lengths. His 41-ball innings saw no boundaries being scored. He eventually fell glancing debutant Shoaib Bashir straight into the hands of legslip.Jaiswal, meanwhile, continued to milk the spinners, cashing in on the boundary opportunities when they erred in lengths. He was briefly helped by a positive partner in Shubman Gill, who toyed with the spinners lengths by using his feet as well as sweeping occasionally.

But a well-set Gill fell to a well-laid trap by England, as James Anderson came in for a second spell before Lunch. Gill tried to mess with Anderson’s lengths by jumping out early but never looked in comfort, edging past the slip cordon dangerously. He eventually fell chasing a wide delivery and nicking to the keeper on 34, to be dismissed by the bowler for the fifth time in seven innings.

Jaiswal brought up his fifty in the company of Shreyas Iyer and the duo were held tight soon after the Lunch break with some disciplined bowling. The shackles were broken when Jaiswal went ahead after a sharp chance was put down at slip by Root and proceeded to hit three boundaries in a row to race into the nineties. Soon after he got his first Test hundred on home soil, India suffered another setback when a restless Iyer got an underedge that was pouched safely by Ben Foakes, giving Tom Hartley his first wicket.

England had managed to keep India in check despite the batters getting off to starts with partnerships worth 40, 49 and 90 being nipped in the bud with regular strikes. Debutant Rajat Patidar started off confidently to put on an unbeaten 46-run stand with Jaiswal

Brief Scores: India 225/3 (Yashasvi Jaiswal 125*; James Anderson 1-124) vs England

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