India vs England Highlights, 1st Test Day 2: Jadeja, Axar put India in command at stumps

India vs England Live Score, IND vs ENG 1st Test Day 2: Two wonderful shots and KL Rahul is away. Hartley bowling the 29th, full length delivery and Rahul thumps it down to long on. Then Hartley stays on that full length and Rahul hits almost the same shot, just better. Sumptuous ball striking and he moves to 14 off 18.

India vs England Live Score, IND vs ENG 1st Test Day 2: Well Root almost got a wicket off the last ball of that 24th over as well. The umpire gave leg bye but replays showed that Rahul had got tickle of an inside edge on it. It in fact darted off the edge of the bat and went over Foakes' gloves. That was a chance and Foakes couldn't react on time. Not many chances since then but India have not really been able to rotate strike easily. A tough start to the day for the hosts.

India vs England Live Score, IND vs ENG 1st Test Day 2: Oh what a start to the day! Jaiswal defends the next ball after that boundary and then goes again. This time he doesn't get elevation, Root takes the catch over his heads and that is the end of one of the most dangerous innings you would ever get to see in a Test match in India.

Jaiswal c & b Root 80 (74)

IND vs ENG Live Score: India 123/2 in 23.4 overs

India vs England Live Score, IND vs ENG 1st Test Day 2: A classical forward defence off the first ball of the day from Jaiswal. Then he skips out of his crease and hits the second ball back over the bowler's head. It came off the bottom half of the bat but it reaches the boundary anyhow.

India vs England Live Score, IND vs ENG 1st Test Day 2: Well, well, well, guess who is starting the bowling for England. Well, it's Joe Root, that's who it is. Yashasvi Jaiswal is out there facing up, Shubman Gill at the other end. India trail by 127. Here we go!

India vs England Live Score, IND vs ENG 1st Test Day 2: The Hyderabad crowd at some point may have had no choice but to applaud as Ben Stokes unfurled a switch hit for about the millionth time against Ravindra Jadeja. Stokes was as watchful and blocking away as many deliveries as possible when he had a recognised batter opposite to him. And yet, he ended up with 70 runs in 88 balls and that is because he farmed strike almost perfectly once England got down to their last two wickets. Stokes hit six fours and three sixes in his innings. In the end, it took an utterly unplayable delivery from Bumrah. It left him about 3 feet away from his leg stump as the ball smashed into them and he shared a wry smile with Bumrah before walking off.

India vs England Live Score, IND vs ENG 1st Test Day 2: Kevin Pietersen and Murali Kartik are talking about the pitch on Jio Cinema. 365 runs and 11 wickets on the first day. It did look like a day 3 wicket yesterday, there was spin and bounce and there were odd occasions when the top was disturbed. The wicket has a bit of wear and tear, there could be some variable bounce, the spinners will have to pull their lengths back. Consistency of lengths will be the key, they reckon.

India vs England Live Score, IND vs ENG 1st Test Day 2: Tom Hartley actually had a good start to the day. He came in at No.9 and smashed a very useful 23 off 24 balls. Or well, it looked like useful runs before Yazball. He shared a 38-run stand with Stokes off just 39 balls. And then, he got the ball in his hands and got a reality check. Hartley had said in an article on Widen dated January 22 that you don't have to “think about flight or guile or anything like that. You just let the pitch do the work.” Well, considering the difference between what happened to him and what Ashwin, Axar and Jadeja managed, it might not be as easy as just throwing the ball on the pitch with some spin on it. Credit to Ben Stokes though, he stuck with his name, took reviews whenever there was a shout off him. Hartley knows what Test cricket is, this is a long series and these are, as he said, pitches that suit spinners. Always time to come roaring back.

India vs England Live Score, IND vs ENG 1st Test Day 2: Yashasvi Jaiswal's unbeaten 76 is the second highest by an Indian batter in the first day's play of a Test after they have fielded first. 365 runs were scored yesterday, which is the most runs scored on Day 1 of a Test match in India where at least ten wickets were lost. The previous highest was between India and West Indies at the Wankhede Stadium in 2013. Yes it was THAT Test, at the end of which Sachin Tendulkar shed a tear with his beloved Wankhede crowd.

India vs England Live Score, IND vs ENG 1st Test Day 2: The England batters were sweeping and reverse sweeping quite frequently and Duckett said that this was a deliberate plan as opposed to random recklessness. "We weren't reckless today. I thought we played well at times and people who normally strike at 150 were dug in and rotated pretty well." Duckett said England were just trying to stay positive on the day. "We're trying to be positive and when you get a bit of pace on the ball, we're going to go even harder. But yeah, they bowled some very nice balls and I reckon I probably could have nicked off about 15 times. I missed them and then put the bat ball away, so yeah, really happy with how we started it," he added.

India vs England Live Score, IND vs ENG 1st Test Day 2: Well Kevin Pietersen is asking for that on his X handle. There were expectations of Root opening the bowling for England if they had to bowl first yesterday. Eventually, it was Mark Wood, the only pacer in this playing XI, who did so alongwith Tom Hartley.

India vs England Live Score, IND vs ENG 1st Test Day 2: It's bad enough for them that they have to face three spinners who kept them on their toes all day long about whether they are going to make the ball spin or not. But England were in for a rude surprise it seems when Rohit and Jaiswal came in and made the kind of opening knock that would make a T20 team proud. "We could have easily had three or four (wickets) there tonight and it could have been very different. The way they played at the top was quite positive, and that's fair play to them. I don't think we necessarily thought they were going to come out and play like that, but Stokesy (Ben Stokes) got us to what we think was an above-par score," he said.

India vs England Live Score, IND vs ENG 1st Test Day 2: There may have been very few but that is more than what most teams would be able to say in a tour of India. England may have burnt through their reviews and Jaiswal may have smashed them to all corners but the fact remains that they made a number of chances for themselves during the Indian innings yesterday. England burnt their reviews in the first 14 overs, which is quite typical of the things they have done with their attacking mindset off late but the best they can do is keep pegging away the way they did yesterday.

India vs England Live Score, IND vs ENG 1st Test Day 2: England had suffered two collapses on Day 1. One was in the first session when they lost three for 16 and then in the second when they lost three for five. One was triggered by Ben Duckett playing for spin and being dismissed. The next was Jonny Bairstow playing for the straight ball and getting bowled. This happened because the Indian spinners, particularly Ashwin and Axar Patel in the second innings, were constantly bowling at a length where the batters were drawn forward, while keeping the stumps in play which meant that the batters simply did not have room to do much. Both Duckett and Bairstow dealt with this for a while, the latter more than the former, but in the end, the bowlers won. The pitch may have assisted spinners but these two wickets had very little to do with the conditions.

India vs England Live Score, IND vs ENG 1st Test Day 2: Ravichandran Ashwin took three wickets and said that the pitch was quick in the beginning of Day 1 but slowed down as it progressed. He also admitted that England may have scored about 30 to 40 more than what India would have liked to restrict them to.
“It was pretty interesting in the first session, maybe there was a bit of moisture. Because of the early moisture, there was enough speed in the pitch in the first session. Then it slowed down. The ball that spun ... not enough speed to carry through to the slip fielders. You need to mix your pace up and be extremely consistent for you to not be giving runs in this pitch. 240 was a very very good competitive total I thought. When we left the field, I was thinking probably 30-40 runs more than what we would have liked. The start that Jaiswal and Rohit gave us is making us breathe a little easy,” he said.

India vs England Live Score, IND vs ENG 1st Test Day 2: The 22 year old has smashed nine fours and three sixes so far. Which is why he has got to 76 in 70 balls at a strike rate of 108.57.

India vs England Live Score, IND vs ENG 1st Test Day 2: Just a reminder of how the two teams have lined up for this match

India: Rohit Sharma(c), Yashasvi Jaiswal, Shubman Gill, KL Rahul, Shreyas Iyer, Ravindra Jadeja, Srikar Bharat(w), Ravichandran Ashwin, Axar Patel, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammed Siraj

England: Zak Crawley, Ben Duckett, Ollie Pope, Joe Root, Jonny Bairstow, Ben Stokes(c), Ben Foakes(w), Rehan Ahmed, Tom Hartley, Mark Wood, Jack Leach

India vs England Live Score, IND vs ENG 1st Test Day 2: India are 119/1 in just 23 overs. Yashasvi Jaiswal is on 76 off 70 balls while Shubman Gill is on 14 off 43. They are trailing England's total of 246 by 127 runs.

India vs England Live Score, IND vs ENG 1st Test Day 2: Slam, bang, wallop and spin. That was Day 1 in a nutshell. England were in a hurry with the bat, except maybe when Jonny Bairstow and Joe Root were in the middle and later when Ben Stokes was biding his time. Then India came out and their openers played a T20 powerplay knock in the first six overs. They maintained that pace and Jaiswal soldiered on even after Rohit fell eventually. It all means that India start Day 2 firmly in the driver's seat and Jaiswal is 24 runs away from a truly remarkable century. If he is going to come out in the same mood as yesterday and Stokes hands the ball to Hartley to start off with, Jaiswal might just knock off that deficit in the first over of the day itself. Or he might fall. Who knows. No one knows. It's Bazball vs Jazball. It's Day 2 in Hyderabad. Welcome all!