Kuldeep Yadav and Ravichandran Ashwin spun a web against English batters to dismiss them for 218. India could have just batted out the last session and look to play full day on second day. But the openers did not go with such defensive plan and have decided to go the aggressive route.
Captain Rohit Sharma started off his innings by taking on Mark Wood. He scored 20 runs from 23 balls and Jaiswal took a cautious approach by scoring 6 runs from 25 balls in first 8 overs. Jaiswal took on Shoaib Bashir and scored 18 runs in the leg spinner’s first over. Both of them took aggressive approach on Tom Hartley and Shoaib Bashir unsettling the inexperienced english spinners.
Rohit Sharma survived some DRS reviews in the meantime. Yashasvi Jaiswal scored a quickfire half century and fell on 57 from 58 balls to Shoaib Bashir. He got stumped out stepping out to the spinner. Sharma and Shubman Gill continued their cautious aggressive approach. Rohit Sharma scored 52 runs from 83 balls and Gill scored 26 runs from 39 balls.
India ended the day on 135/1 from 30 overs. They need to score 83 runs to gain lead. India would be looking to take advantage of this position and score above 400 to put England under immense pressure. Yashasvi Jaiswal became second fastest 1000 runs scorer for India behind Vinod Kambli. Also, he scored more than 700 runs in one Test series.