Yashasvi Jaiswal has been given the role of regular opener in current Test squad. Shubman Gill has been made No.3 and in the absence of Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer has become No.4. Ravindra Jadeja and KL Rahul have been injured and hence, they have been replaced with Rajat Patidar and Kuldeep Yadav. Interestingly, Mohammad Siraj has been rested in favour of Mukesh Kumar.
England team after a surprise win against India in Hyderabad Test, brought in legend James Anderson and Shoaib Bashir bowlers into the Playing XI for the second Test. India have won the toss and elected to bat first. Yashasvi Jaiswal and Rohit Sharma needed to give a great start to the team to combat the moving ball disadvantage.
Jaiswal has played a determined innings while he kept losing partners regularly. He scored his second Test century against a skillful bowling attack. He played a very sensible and commendable innings. He scored 179 runs from 257 balls. He is gearing up to score double century as he stayed not out on the first day.
Shubman Gill(34), Rajat Patidar(32), Axar Patel(27) and Shreyas Iyer(27) could not go on to score despite getting big starts. India ended scoring 336/6 in 93 overs on the first day. Rehan Ahmed(2/61), Shoaib Bashir(2/100), Tom Hartley(1/74) and James Anderson(1/30) took wickets for England on Day one.
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