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IND vs ENG, 5th Test | Rohit Sharma, Gill Smack Centuries As IND Mount Big Lead On Day 2

Debutant Devdutt Padikkal also scored a breezy 65 (AP)Debutant Devdutt Padikkal also scored a breezy 65 (AP)

Brief Scores: England (1st innings): 218 all out (57.4 overs) [Zak Crawley: 79 (108), Jonny Bairstow: 29 (18); Kuldeep Yadav 5/72 (15), Ravichandran Ashwin 4/51 (11.4)] trail India (1st innings): 473-8 (120 overs) [Shubman Gill: 110 (150), Rohit Sharma: 103 (162); Shoaib Bashir 4/170 (44), Tom Hartley 2/126 (39)] by 255 runs. 

Team India, off the back of alluring hundreds from captain Rohit Sharma and batting prodigy Shubman Gill, mounted a huge first-innings lead over England on Day 2 of their fifth Test match at Dharamshala.

Runs Galore as Rohit, Gill lead England’s Relapse

Overnight Indian batters Rohit Sharma and Shubman Gill both brought down imperial hundreds from their ends to mark their second respective centuries of the series. The two cricketers shared 171 runs together for the second wicket to take India past England’s 218, before their quick dismissals after the lunch break handed the visitors their first set of breakthroughs of the day.

While English skipper Ben Stokes halted Sharma’s juggernaut with a peach, warhorse James Anderson followed suite with a similar delivery to centurion Gill the very next over.

At 279-3, debutant Devdutt Padikkal and three-Test old Sarfaraz Khan further piled on England’s pain with majestic half-centuries to take India past the 400-run mark. Visiting tweaker Shoaib Bashir, who had accounted for raging opener Yashasvi Jaiswal late on Day 1, bewildered both Devdutt and Sarfaraz within a single spell to trigger a lower-order Indian collapse in the post-Tea session.

Ravindra Jadeja, young Dhruv Jurel and 100-Test player Ravichandran Ashwin all fell in quick succession as India slipped from 403-4 to 428-8 in the space of an hour.

While Bashir claimed Jurel to collect his fourth Indian wicket of the innings, Tom Hartley trapped Jadeja and Ashwin in a single over to lead England’s fightback.

Regardless, England’s spin uprising was soon extinguished by tailenders Jasprit Bumrah and Kuldeep Yadav with a near fifty-run stand as Team India ended up batting out the day to reach 473-8.

Emboldened with a commanding lead of 255 runs in the bank, Kuldeep (27*) and Bumrah (19*) will now resume the Indian innings on Day 3.