Live Updates: Murali Vijay and Shikhar Dhawan are off to a good start after England were bowled out for 287 on Day 2 of the first Test at Edgbaston. Ravichandran Ashwin was the pick of the Indian bowlers with four wickets while Mohammed Shami took three. Joe Root top scored for the hosts with a fluent 80 runs but his run out from a brilliant throw by Virat Kohli sparked their demise. England, who were 216-3 when Root was dismissed, lost their next four wickets for 27 runs, with spinner Ashwin inflicting the bulk of the damage. The India vs England, Day 2 action will be shown on Sony Six, Sony Ten 3 and Sony Ten 3 HD and the live streaming will be available on Sony Liv.
India vs England Live Cricket Score Day 2: Here are the live score updates –
Rashid the key?
India’s gamble to bring Ravichandran Ashwin early into the attack worked wonders on Day 1 as he took the wicket of Alastair Cook. Will England do something similar with Adil Rashid? India 26-0
Dhawan confident
Shikhar Dhawan is looking in good touch as he is rotating the strike easily against James Anderson and Stuart Broad. A lot of questions were asked after his inclusion for the first Test match but a confident performance here can shut his critics down for some time. He has taken a special shining to Broad and he easily drove the England international for a boundary through the covers. India 23 for the loss of no wicket.
Solid start
Murali Vijay and Shikhar Dhawan have started the innings brilliantly with positive stroke play. Stuart Broad strayed in his line slightly and Vijay slammed it through the covers. A LBW appeal against Vijay but the DRS review went against England. 3 overs gone, England are 13 for no loss.
India’s bowling depth coming to the fore
Arnab Sen, Sports Editor, HT Digital: There was a lot of talk about the depth in India’s bowling attack even before the start of the Test match and that has come to the fore in the first innings. Despite the absence of Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Jasprit Bumrah, the trio of Ishant Sharma, Umesh Yadav and Mohammed Shami put their hand up and did the job for the team. And of course how can one forget the stellar performance of Ravichandran Ashwin. For me this was perhaps his best ever bowling performance in his Test career. Yes, he has picked up a lot more wickets while playing in India but the confidence with which he bowled at a time when there was so much negativity around him and whether he should play ahead of Kuldeep Yadav, makes this performance special.
Dhawan, Vijay start proceedings
Murali Vijay and Shikhar Dhawan are the openers for India while James Anderson is bowling the first over. Anderson strays in line and Dhawan is off the mark with three runs on the leg-side. India 4-0.
England all out
That’s it for England! Mohammed Shami dismisses Sam Curran as England are bowled out for 287. Curran ended up edging the delivery off Shami and this time, Dinesh Karthik made no mistakes behind the stumps. This is the perfect start for India and now, the onus is completely on the batsmen.
Nervy start
Ravichandran Ashwin almost struck with the fourth ball of the day but James Anderson’s shot was inches away from his own off-stump. The tail-enders are not looking confident against Ashwin and India need to wrap up this innings as soon as possible. England 287-9
Almost time
We are five minutes away from the start of Day 2. India are in the driver’s seat but a first innings of 300 will not be the worst thing to happen for England. They started the game well and a disciplined bowling performance from James Anderson and his partners can change the encounter of its head.
Pitch Report
Here’s what Sanjay Manjrekar had to say about the pitch on Day 2 – “Not a lot has changed. It is a pitch where you’d see a lot of soft dismissals with batsmen getting out to seemingly innocuous deliveries. To extract something out of this for the bowlers is going to be a challenge, especially on days two and three, and the Indian batsmen must ensure that they put their head down and make use of these conditions.”
Final wicket
The sunny conditions and the pitch will be helpful to the bowlers once again while the old ball should be enough for the Indian bowlers to get the job done. 300 will be a major boost for England and Ishant Sharma & Co will be looking to take that final wicket as soon as possible. England 285-9
Ashwin’s record
The spin did assist the spinners at Edgbaston and Ravichandran Ashwin benefitted a lot from the help. Ashwin (4/60) registered his best figures in Test cricket across South Africa, England and Australia as the hosts lost six wickets for 69 runs in the final session of play to find themselves in a precarious position after opting to bat.
Sleepy Shastri
A funny incident on Day 1 took place when the television cameras captured Ravi Shastri taking a nap in the Indian dressing room and commentator Harbhajan Singh did not miss the chance to mock the Indian cricket team head coach.“Ravi Shastri having a nap there. Wake up, Ravi!” said Harbhajan as other commentators around him burst into a laugh.
Dropped chances
India could have wrapped up the England innings much earlier if they could hold on to the chances. The first mistake came early in the match as Ajinkya Rahane spilled a catch in fourth slip and the other big chance came towards the end of the day when Dinesh Karthik was unable to take a diving catch when Sam Curran edged a Mohammed Shami delivery.
Jennings on back foot
Keaton Jennings came for the press conference earlier and he denied India held the upper hand. “Everybody is entitled to celebrate how they want to. He celebrated, and that’s cool,” Jennings told the media when asked about Virat Kohli’s send-off. “You look, after 85 overs with an old ball, there still seems to be quite a lot of lateral movement. From our point of view, we’ve got (nearly) 300 on the board – and if we can come out and be pretty relentless in the way we go about hitting our areas, at some point tomorrow…, you don’t actually know what a good score is until both sides have batted.”
Joe Root the saviour
Joe Root was the star for England as he was the top-scorer with 80. Root, along with wicketkeeper-batsman Jonny Bairstow, steered the home side away from danger as they partnered a 100-run stand between them to shift the momentum and the control of the match back England’s way.
Amazing Ashwin
Ravichandran Ashwin was the wrecker-in-chief for India as he took four wickets on Day 1. Ashwin’s 25-over spell was the most by any of the five Indian bowlers and his economy rate of 2.40 the least as well. The tall spinner dealt the big blow into the ninth over, handing India their first wicket of the series and then followed it up with three crucial wickets in the last session.
VIrat Kohli’s ‘mic drop’
A controversial moment of Day 1 came when Virat Kohli gave Joe Root a send-off after dismissing the England skipper. The dismissal was a crucial one for the Indian cricket team at that juncture and Kohli mocked Root by blowing a kiss and mimicking his ‘mic drop’ celebration. Kohli’s ‘mic drop’ gesture was the imitation of Root’s celebration after he scored his second consecutive hundred to clinch the ODI series for the hosts.
Welcome to Day 2
Hello and welcome to the action from Day 2 of the first Test match between India and England. Day 1 started well for the hosts, but Ravichandran Ashwin led India’s fightback with four wickets as England were reduced to 285-9 at the end of the day. Joe Root was the top-scorer for the hosts with 80 but it was his wicket that sparked the downfall for England.
Source: HindustanTimes