Live Report - India vs England, 2nd Test, Visakhapatnam

Live Report - India vs England, 2nd Test, Visakhapatnam

A day that's been all Yashasvi Jaiswal without quite being all India. Jaiswal batted through the 90 overs, showing a precocious variety of Test-match gears to finish unbeaten on 179, his second Test hundred and his second big hundred too: his previous best was a lovely, unhurried 171 on debut in Dominica.

While Jaiswal spent the day making the pitch his home, though, he saw six wickets fall at the other end, all to scores between 14 and 34. India will be particularly disgruntled with how they lost wickets No. 5 and 6, Axar Patel and KS Bharat caught at backward point while failing to keep square cuts down.

"I was just batting session by session, and made sure that if they were bowling well I play out that spell," Jaiswal says. "That's it."

He makes it sound simple, and he made it look simple too, but it surely cannot have been all that simple.

England won't be displeased with how their day went. Far from it. Conditions so far have been pretty good to bat in, even if there's been a little bit of bounce for the spinners to work with and some reverse as well, but they haven't let India press home the advantage of batting first here. James Anderson, ageless James Anderson, played a big role in keeping India honest, dismissing Shubman Gill for the fifth time in Tests while going at just 1.76 across 17 overs.

Bharat is Axar in the mirro

Ball turning away from the bat, perhaps a bit of extra bounce, and an attempted square cut ends up in the hands of backward point. With stumps just over six minutes away, KS Bharat falls in much the same way Axar Patel had a little while ago, giving Rehan Ahmed his second wicket. And where Axar had scored 27, Bharat had made a bright, enterprising 17. It's been that kind of day for India's batters today, all of them other than Jaiswal who's still there on 179, his highest Test score.

Oh, and where Axar was c Rehan b Bashir, Bharat is c Bashir b Rehan.

Axar gifts Shoaib a second

Back of a length, cuffed to point, Axar Patel falls for 27 as Shoaib Bashir claims his second of a doughty debut day in Test cricket. India have just brought up their 300, but they've shipped five wickets now, and once again, it was a bit too soft for the conditions that they've been handed. KS Bharat is the new man, with the close looming. Yashasvi Jaiswal remains a class apart on 166 not out.