Indian cricket group dominated the opening day of the fifth Take a look at match towards England and took management of the sport on Thursday. Kuldeep Yadav and Ravichandran Ashwin shared 9 wickets to bowl out England on 218 after which openers Rohit Sharma and Yashasvi Jaiswal boosted India to 135/1 in simply 30 overs.
Kuldeep shattered England’s top-order with well timed wickets after which Ashwin ran riot with 4 wickets. In-form Zak Crawley scored a formidable 79 off 108 balls however no different English batter managed to cross the 30-run mark at Dharamsala’s Himachal Pradesh Cricket Affiliation Stadium.
Yashasvi Jaiswal then recorded his fifth fifty-plus rating on this sequence by smashing 57 off simply 58 balls and Rohit added 52* off 83 balls to assist India rating 135/1 in 30 overs, trailing by simply 83 runs.
With a sequence win secured, the hosts made one change to their enjoying eleven with uncapped Devdutt Padikkal changing Rajat Patidar.
India Enjoying XI: Yashasvi Jaiswal, Rohit Sharma (c), Shubman Gill, Devdutt Padikkal, Ravindra Jadeja, Sarfaraz Khan, Dhruv Jurel (wk), Ravichandran Ashwin, Kuldeep Yadav, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammed Siraj
England Enjoying XI: Zak Crawley, Ben Duckett, Ollie Pope, Joe Root, Ben Stokes (c), Jonny Bairstow, Ben Foakes (wk), Tom Hartley, Shoaib Bashir, Mark Wooden, James Anderson
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