Arguably the best bowler on the planet, Jasprit Bumrah produced a high quality cameo with the bat on Day 2 of the third Test towards England, scoring 26 runs off simply 28 balls. Exhibiting a uncommon show of his batting prowess, Bumrah registered 3 fours and 1 six throughout his keep within the center, powering the Indian crew to 445 runs within the first innings at Rajkot. Seeing Bumrah hit some beautiful pictures, together with a six down the bottom, even India captain Rohit Sharma was fairly impressed.

As Bumrah produced fireworks within the center, it was Rohit’s response that everybody began to speak about.

Captain Rohit Sharma having fun with the batting heroics of Bumrah. pic.twitter.com/Hsw2GB2WzD

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Having delivered with the bat, Bumrah can be key to India’s plans with the ball, having taken 9 wickets within the second Test at Vizag. On the Visakhapatnam pitch, Bumrah regarded unplayable at instances, producing a number of beautiful deliveries, particularly the one bowled to Ollie Pope within the first innings.

With the bat, Rohit Sharma (131) and Ravindra Jadeja (112) struck high quality a whole bunch whereas debutant Sarfaraz Khan made a promising begin to his Test profession with a powerful 62 off 66 balls.

In his first worldwide outing, wicketkeeper-batter Dhruv Jurel too batted very effectively for a neat 46 off 104 balls and the seasoned Ravichandran Ashwin chipped in with 37 whereas sharing a 77-run partnership for the eighth wicket.

India resumed the second day on their in a single day rating of 326/5 with Jadeja and night-watchman Kuldeep Yadav (1) on the crease.

Both Jadeja and Kuldeep, nonetheless, received out firstly of second day as India slipped to 331/7.

Ashwin and Jurel then steadied the innings.

For England, returning pacer Mark Wood completed with figures of 4/114 in 27.5 overs.

With PTI inputs