Legendary India cricketer Ravi Shastri was not satisfied with the workforce administration’s resolution to incorporate Mukesh Kumar within the enjoying XI as a substitute of Washington Sundar for the second Test match in opposition to England in Visakhapatnam beginning Friday. While England went with 4 spinners of their facet, India determined to incorporate Mukesh Kumar rather than Mohammed Siraj together with Jasprit Bumrah. Shastri stated on commentary that he was undecided about how efficient Mukesh will likely be contemplating India had been batting first and puzzled if an additional spin choice in Washington Sundar would have been extra helpful. 

“My only concern is picking Mukesh Kumar over Washington Sundar. How much of use will Mukesh be, especially after India is batting first on this Vizag surface,” Ravi Shastri stated on commentary.

Talking about Day 1 of 2nd check, Yashasvi Jaiswal batted with supreme confidence for an unbeaten 179 off 257 balls that single-handedly drove India to 336 for six on day one of many second Test in opposition to England right here on Friday and secured his place on the prime of the order for the foreseeable future.

Unlike the collection opener, Jaiswal made positive he transformed his sturdy begin into an enormous hundred however the different Indian batters didn’t take advantage of batting pleasant situations.

The 22-year-old now has two lots of and as many fifties to his title in solely his tenth Test innings.

Jaiswal, whose particular effort comprised 17 boundaries and 5 sixes, had R Ashwin (5) by his facet at stumps.

India made 111 runs within the last session for the lack of three wickets together with Axar Patel (27 off 51) and Ok S Bharat (17 off 23). For England, debutant Shoaib Bashir and Rehan Ahmed picked up two wickets apiece.

Debutant Rajat Patidar (32 off 72) performed one on to his stumps whereas providing a ahead defence to leg-spinner Rehan Ahmed. A complete of 93 overs had been bowled with 4 spinners in operation.

Trailing 0-1 within the five-match collection, India want to get to no less than 500 on day two after which put stress on the England batters on a pitch the place variable bounce is anticipated to come back into play from day three.

The odd ball stored low even on the opening day however situations remained beneficial of the batters. However, the harm to Ravindra Jadeja has resulted in an extended tail, which might want to wag for India to get anyplace near 500.

(With PTI inputs)