England vs India: Ollie Pope hits ninth Test hundred as hosts fight back into first Test on day two at Headingley | Cricket News

slickJune 21, 2025

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Ollie Pope struck a ninth century of test as part of a response to England stirred on the second day of the first test in Headingley, the hosts ending the 209-3 in response to the first blow of India 471.

After the tour team lost its last seven counters for 41 points, Pope (100no) has sometimes resisted the Jasprit Bumrah (3-48) storm storm (3-48) incisive and very skilfuls to survive the studs, lifting its ton of 125 balls.

Bumrah rejected Zak Crawley (4) with a beauty to end his opening, added Ben Duckett (62) – dragging one on his strains – after he and Pope shared a 122 -point partnership for the second window, and won his personal duel with Joe Root (28) late.

Bumrah threatened throughout, lacking chances of gold to add more to his transport while Duckett was abandoned by 15 by Ravira Jadeja to the point, Pope was deposited on 60 by Yashasvi Jaiswal in the shifts, then he was guilty of the day.

Somersauts pants in the sparkling century

Earlier, with India reproducing the second morning the 359-3, England brilliantly made the visitors for 471 because, after the end of Shubman Gill and Rishabh Pant of 219 sleeves, Ben Stokes (4-66) and Josh Tongue (4-86) combined to browse the lower order.

Pant (134) became the third century of India in their first rounds, jumping to celebrate after having mentioned his seventh ton of test with one of the six maximum for his unique blow.

The first hour had otherwise been a little flat, the crowd Headingley usually vocal a little moderate while India continued to accumulate and spend 400 with ease, although they were violently awakened from their sleep by the pure audacity of some of the pant shots.

A “ Paddle ” from Falling, newly, brought him four of Shoaib Bashir as, unbalanced and halfway on the ground, pants somehow always connected with his fine scoop at the fence, although it was not surprising to see that his 146-ball called upon six.

From nowhere, the partnership was finally finished while Bashir (1-100) obtained a richly deserved reward for a strong bowling program sustained when Gill (147) is at the end of a square deeply.

Pant continued to play his shots despite everything and should have been excluded in the next Bashir during the loss of his catch on the bat while he was trying to send one in orbit on the western terrace, but Jamie Smith failed to bring the ball together.

Stokes and Pope at the forefront of England Fightback

The missed luck would only cost the angleterre that 10 are running more and more from its bat because, after Pope claimed a superb, jumping to the blanket to see Karun Nair for a duck – one of the three for Indian sleeves – the tongue would pin the pants in front of LBW.

Stokes and the management of England wanted to want to manage his workload this summer after many badges over the years and with the ashes of this winter, but Stokes felt the opportunity to sniff a seventh in the seventh above his lanching, and he did this while Shardul Thakur (1) aroused his lunch.

The language then cleaned Bumrah (0), Jadeja (11) and Prasidh Krishna (1) without too many problems after the interval, dismantling the stumps of the last two to finish the collapse. But, as happy as England will have been with the work of their morning, the changing general conditions aroused the concern of what awaited us with the bat.

Crawley and Duckett were therefore too happy to turn immediately to the security of the Loor’s locker room of England when, when the game was about to resume, the rain arrived.

A short sharp shower has delayed procedures over 30 minutes and dark conditions adapted to the bowling alley have remained to accommodate the openers of England in the middle, although briefly in the case of Crawley.

Bumrah struck with the last ball of the first, Crawley bordering an almost unplayable delivery to slide who shaped his pads before raising himself late.

There would be a hearty cry of LBW and a review against Duckett shortly after, as well as edges through the sheets, then what dropped chance by Jadeja. But among the quasi-accidents and the half-waste, England was shaking up at the height, Duckett ranging half a century of 68 balls and the pope off the coast of 64 sides of the tea.

The return of Bumrah, of course, would stop the booming stand, Duckett upset an inner edge, and rapid India would also end the Root de Root de Root de Root at the end of the day while the player and the highest shot of the ICC were going to-head.

A fourth stream window with only three bullets to play would have embittered the evening of England, but it would survive thanks to one of the three without bullets for the end of Bumrah tendon for a last breakthrough.

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