Jasprit Bumrah: India vs England, 2nd Test: Jasprit Bumrah takes 6/45 as Yashasvi Jaiswal scores double century | Cricket News

VIZAG: Stung to the quick by what transpired in Hyderabad, India have turned the screws on England in the second Test. Yashasvi Jaiswal (209; 290b, 19×4, 7×6) set it up beautifully for the hosts with the first double century of his career and Jasprit Bumrah (6/45) sliced through the England batting like knife through butter after Kuldeep Yadav provided the initial breakthrough.
That England lasted just 55.5 overs while being bowled out for 253 and conceding a lead of 143 at the ACA-VDCA Stadium on Saturday is testimony to the Indian spearhead’s skillset. Four spells of searing pace and reverse swing was all it needed to upend England’s resistance after they resumed the second session at 32 without loss, having safely negotiated the six overs before lunch.

Openers Zak Crawley and Ben Duckett hardly looked in trouble, picking up boundaries at will. With offie R Ashwin totally off-colour and Mukesh Kumar leaking runs (did the hosts miss a trick by releasing Mohammed Siraj?) after India finished at 396 in the morning, England raced to 59 before Kuldeep made the first dent by getting rid of Duckett. He also nearly had Ollie Pope first ball.

Though England didn’t bring out the reverse sweep till 17.4 overs on a second-day pitch that helped the spinners, Crawley (76; 78b, 11×4, 2×6) continued with his free-stroking ways till an inspired bowling change saw Axar Patel open his account. The opener’s miscued shot was well taken by Shreyas Iyer, ending the 55-run stand for the second wicket with Pope.
Bumrah had Joe Root in two minds and induced an edge with one that reversed to scalp him for the eighth time and then he cranked up the pace. Pope had no answer to a 140 kph delivery that uprooted his middle and leg stumps, and in a matter of 16 minutes, Bumrah left the England top order in total disarray with his second spell of 4-2-3-2. He was not done yet.

With Rohit Sharma using him in four-over spells, he returned after tea, with England at 155/4, to get rid of Jonny Bairstow in a wicket maiden, the batter pushing away from his body to bring Shubman Gill into play at slip.
Skipper Ben Stokes (47; 54b, 5×4, 6×1) was a mute spectator to the carnage around him before Bumrah made him his 150th victim to become the quickest Indian pacer to reach the milestone in 34 Tests. Bumrah’s 10th fifer meant India took a first-innings lead of 143 runs and swelled it to 171 with Rohit and Jaiswal unbeaten as they finished the day at 28 without loss.

Jaiswal creamed three fours off Shoaib Bashir at the fag end of the day and continued from where he left off in the morning, when the last four wickets yielded 60 runs for India. Jaiswal was the eighth batter to fall. In a spot of bother against the second new ball taken by James Anderson after 94 overs, Jaiswal survived an unsuccessful England review for LBW.

Anderson gave it his all in his morning spell of 8-1-17-2. Stokes persisted with rookie offie Shoaib Bashir till he terminated the Indian innings, but not before Jaiswal had marched to a double century, off 278 deliveries, with two cracking shots, a six and a four off Bashir. His knock ended a long drought: the last double ton by an Indian was by Mayank Agarwal in 2019.