England toiling vs India at Edgbaston, close on 77-3 in reply to 587 all out as Shubman Gill scores double century | Cricket News

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An exhausted England lost three first handles after Shubman Gill hit a masterful double century while India took total control of the second test on the second day in Edgbaston.

Gill’s 269 of 387 balls on the most docile surfaces, a round which included 30 four and three six and propelled visitors from 211 to 587 all, is the highest score of an Indian in England, ecliptening the 221 struck by Sunil Gavaskar at the oval in 1979.

The elegant and without field blow, filled with vigilant strikers and disks without peer and marked in front of a passionate itinerant support, came after India was inserted by the captain of England Ben Stokes on the first day for the second match successively.

England succeeded in a pursuit of 371 in Leeds, soothing those who questioned Stokes’ decision to make a bowl first, but they will have to go there to repeat this, with Gill with then on the field while the hosts closed 77-3 having dropped to 25-3 in the middle of a sea of bulk.

Gill took a superb plunging from a slip -in for the first of the two counters in as many balls – which seize the hero Headingley Ben Duckett (0) before Ollie Pope also won a Blob while he holds back to Kl Rahul.

Akash Deep, playing in the place of the Jasprit Bumrah rested, deleted Duckett and Pope in the third with a new swing, before Mohammed Siraj forces Zak Crawley (19) to lead a bullet that obsessed in the eighth, with the first three of England who may suffer from the used mind and the bodies after 151 on the ground.

Harry Brook (30), who sometimes played a little and almost came across his strains in the final, and Joe Root (18) then sewed an uninterrupted alliance of 52 to take England to the strains.

Gill makes history on the apathetic surface

Gill and Ravirand Jadeja (89) earlier their stand of sixth window from his night 99 to 203 before Josh Tongue (2-119) gave up the latter shortly before lunch, refusing Jadeja a fifth ton of test and second on this land after his 104 three years ago.

The Jadeja left -wing spinner will now have a big role to play with the ball on a track, India Hope will crack and turn as they aim to level the five -game series before the third test at Lord’s on July 10, before other games at Emirates Old Trafford and the Kia Oval.

India has selected two spinners in this game with Washington supporting Jadeja, after being preferred to the left weapon Kuldeep Yadav, undoubtedly a bigger threat of a counter.

Washington was widely chosen, it seems, to strengthen the lower order striker after the collapses of 7-41 and 6-31 proved to be expensive in Leeds.

The versatile certainly bypassed the bat, contributing 42 in a stand of 144 with the masterful branchies for the seventh window before it was turned upside down by a beauty of root while India added 376 for their last five counters, but only 29 for their last three while Spinner Shoaib Bashir (3-167) laughs at the tail.

Bashir moved away from 45 letters, changing his flight and his line after being offered next to nothing by the field, with his undeniable highest point to come the first day when he radically dropped his rhythm so that Rishabh Pant died in the depths.

England under the pump with ball then bat

Thursday was a day of work for the quisors of England, Stokes even turning to the average part -time rhythm of Brook for five overs when he sought to force the battery error on this apathetic surface.

Gill struck the second, third and fourth Brook balls for four – an opening of a cut that sequesters before two magnificent straight discs followed – and he seemed ready to become the third striker of India to mark a triple ton of test before transporting the tongue to the square leg after tea.

The Grand Virender Sehwag, which made 319 against South Africa in 2008 and 309 against Pakistan four years earlier, as well as the current teammate of Gill Karun Nair, who looted 303 not against England in Chennai in 2016, remain the only Indians to achieve the feat.

Once Gill was dismissed by the tongue and Bashir withdrew Deep (6) and Siraj (8), there was this clicking of the Brook before Brook’s counters – which came out on the right side of an India Revue LBW because of the referee’s call – and Root stopped the rot, although with a few nervous moments.

But after these collapse of aforementioned strikers and a series of abandoned sockets contributed greatly to India to lose a first test in Headingley that they should have won, they are now very well placed to put pressure for 1-1 in Birmingham, thanks to their captain.

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