England won the toss and elected to bowl first in this match held in Leeds. After this, the indian team's opener KL Rahul, who came into the field, scored 42 runs and got out. Similarly, Shubman Gill, who came into the field as the indian captain in the Test match, scored a century in the first innings and was impressive. In this context, the indian team started the second day of play with a score of 359 for three wickets. Gill scored 127 runs and rishabh pant scored 65 runs on the second day. pant completed his seventh century.
With this, he broke Dhoni's record for the most centuries by an indian wicketkeeper in international Tests. The much-awaited Karun Nair was out for a duck and shardul thakur was out for one run. Jadeja scored 11 runs, bumrah for a duck and Prasit krishna also got out for one run. With this, india lost all their wickets for 471 runs. At one stage, they scored 430 runs for the loss of three wickets and after Gill's dismissal, India's decline began. india lost 7 wickets before adding 41 more runs. With the pitch favorable for scoring, the fans expected india to score 600 runs in the first innings.

But suddenly the sky was cloudy and the ball swung well. Taking advantage of this, the english players put a lot of pressure on them. Unable to cope with this, the indian batsmen lost the game one after another. In this situation, the sky is currently cloudy, so the indian bowlers also have an opportunity to quickly take down the wicket of the english team. Opener Jack Crawley was dismissed for four runs. As a result, the english team lost their first wicket by four runs.
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Sowmiya Sriram

21/06/2025 10:24 PM