There has been a lot of talk about 'buzzball' cricket between the two teams. Before the start of England's 5-match Test series against India, Stokes-McCallum's 'buzzball' was the most talked about.
But in the Hyderabad Test, England could not play 'real baseball' cricket, could not play a real Test. England were bowled out for 246 runs in 64.3 overs while playing sensational cricket in their invented Test.
Coming down to answer, it can be said that Rohit Sharma has taken the reins of the Test in his own hands on the first day. The hosts collected 119 runs losing one wicket. Young opener Jaswi Jaiswal is on the wicket with 76 runs.
England won the toss and elected to bat at the Rajiv Gandhi International Cricket Stadium in Hyderabad. Coming in to bat, Jack Crowley and Ben Duckett tried to get off to a flying start. But in the beginning they got trapped in Ravichandran Ashwin's web. The pair were separated by an average of 55 runs.
Ashwin returned Ben Duckett who scored 35 runs off 39 balls. Another opener Jack Crowley returned with 20 runs off 40 balls after being dismissed by Ashwin. Ollie Pope was dismissed for 1 off 11 balls.
After falling for 3 wickets for 60 runs, Joe Root and Jonny Bairst tried to form a pair. They scored 61 runs with the bat. But here too the English got caught in the spin. Ravindra Jadeja and Akshar Patel show these two people the way to Sajghar. Before that, Root scored 29 runs from 60 balls, Jonny Bairst scored 37 runs from 58 balls.
Captain Ben Stokes could only put up resistance against the Indian bowlers. A sparkling innings of 70 runs came out of his bat from 88 balls. He had 6 boundaries and 3 sixes in his bat. Only captain Stokes tried to play 'buzzball' cricket.
While the England captain played on the sideline, his teammates were on the march. Ben Foakes was out for 4, Tom Hartley for 23 and Mark Wood for 11. English captain Stokes was the last batsman out. Jasprit Bumrah's resistance crumbled in just one delivery. The visiting England were bowled out for 246 runs.
Two spinners Ashwin and Jadeja shared 6 wickets equally. Jasprit Bumrah and Akshar Patel took 2 wickets each. In other words, the spinners took 8 out of 10 wickets.
In response, two Indian openers Rohit Sharma and Jaswi Jaiswal made a pair of 80 runs. At this time, Rohit returned with a catch by Jack Leach's ball in the hands of Stokes. The Indian captain got out after scoring 24 runs off 27 balls. At the end of the day, India scored 119 runs on the scoreboard. Jaiswal is on 76 runs and Shubman Gill remains unbeaten on 14 runs. Host India is still 127 runs behind England.
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