England opener Alex Lees was forced into a pre-rain lunch after Jasprit Bumrah broke Brian Lara’s record with the bat. The hosts were 16/1 at the break
England opener Alex Lees was forced into a pre-rain lunch after Jasprit Bumrah broke Brian Lara’s record with the bat. The hosts were 16/1 at the break
England were 84 for five at stumps on the second day of the rain-hit fifth Test against India here on Saturday.
With Jonny Bairstow and captain Ben Stokes batting at 12 and 0 respectively, England still trail India by 332 runs.
Ravindra Jadeja reaffirmed his position as India’s Most Valuable Player with a scintillating century before skipper Jasprit Bumrah came into the center, breaking a world record first and then raining on the second day of the rescheduled fifth. blew up England’s top order. testing.
At tea, England were struggling at 60 for 3 as a well-warmed-up Bumrah first cast opener Alex Lees (6) with an angle off the ball.
Then, in the post-lunch session, he got lucky twice as he removed Zak Crawley (9) and Ollie Pope (10) with the ‘seventh’ deliveries of his third and sixth overs respectively.
Both were fuller deliveries that pushed the two right-handers to go for drives as Shubman Gill at third slip and Shreyas Iyer took a regulation catch at second slip.
In-form batsmen Joe Root (19 batting) and Jonny Bairstow (6 batting) were at the crease when rain stopped play for the third time on the second day.
While he once again delivered with the ball, it was Bumrah (No. 31, 16 balls) the batsman whose fireworks will be remembered longest by the Edgbaston crowd as he scored 29 runs in Stuart Broad’s over.
Broad got a total of 35 runs including six extras in that over.
In his first match as captain, Bumrah would have never thought that he would surpass Brian Lara’s maximum runs (28 runs) in an over in a Test match, which remained intact for 18 years.
Stuart Broad bowls the over to Jasprit Bumrah. Photo: Twitter/@BCCI
Bumrah used the bat like a sword and even the edge seemed like a “sweet spot” as he hit four fours and two sixes off Broad to give the hosts a ‘bazzball’ (Brendon McCullum’s attacking philosophy). ), which had become a trending lingo. In English cricket during the last few weeks.
While Rishabh Pant’s century century and Jadeja’s third Test century set the stage, India did not spare 93 runs with contributions from No. 9, 10 and 11.
In the morning, Jadeja was cautious before deliberately guiding Matthew Potts’ ball for a boundary with extra bounce at slips, and the other was a lucky four that went over Joe Root at slips.
A punch drive through the cover-point area scored him his third century, four months after scoring his second in Mohali.
However, this century was of a far better quality, especially if one factor influenced the conditions, the match conditions and the quality of the opposition’s bowling.
Jadeja hit 13 boundaries, and his four-and-a-half-hour stay on the wicket gave Pant the opportunity to play his natural attacking game, even as he defended when needed.
Jadeja, who has already scored 2500 runs in Test cricket with 242 wickets, can be called the best all-rounder of the Indian team since the great Kapil Dev.
A Test batting average of over 37 is better than many experts who have played for India over the years.
As far as England’s bowling is concerned, James Anderson (5/60), who is a month shy of turning 40, is still unparalleled as he took his 32nd five-wicket haul, while Broad took 550 Test victims. A credible achievement of accomplished.
But 40 extra runs including 14 no balls in the long run will certainly trouble England.
Scoreboard:
India 1st innings: Shubman Gill c Crawley b Anderson 17 Cheteshwar Pujara c Crawley b Anderson 13 Hanuma Vihari lbw b Potts 20 Virat Kohli b Potts 11 Rishabh Pant c Crawley b Root 146 Shreyas Iyer c Billings b Anderson 15 Ravindra Jadeja b James Anderson 104 Shardul Thakur c Billings b Stokes 1 Mohammed Shami c Jac Leach b 16 Jasprit Bumrah not out 31 Mohammad Siraj c Broad b James Anderson 2
Excessive: (B-4 LB-17, W-5, NB-14) 40
gross: (for 10 wickets in 84.5 overs) 416
Fall of wickets: 1-27 2-46 3-64 4-71 5-98 6-320 7-323, 8-371, 9-375
Bowling: James Anderson 21.5-4-60-5, Stuart Broad 18-3-89-1, Matthew Potts 20-1-105-2, Jack Leach 9-0-71-0, Ben Stokes 13-0-47-1, Joe Route 3-0-23-1.
England first innings Alex Lees b Bumrah 6 Zak Crawley c Shubman Gill b Bumrah 9 Ollie Pope c Shreyas Iyer b Bumrah 10 Joe Root c Pant b Siraj 31 Jonny Bairstow not out 12 Jack Leach c Pant b Shami 0 Ben Stokes batting 0
gross: (5 wickets, for 27 overs) 84
Fall of wickets: 1-16, 2-27, 3-44, 4-78, 5-83
India’s bowling: Jasprit Bumrah 11-1-35-3, Mohammed Shami 13-3-33-1, Mohammed Siraj 3-2-5-1