India opener Yashasvi Jaiswal dominated England on Day 1 of the second Test match in Vizag. Jaiswal’s 179* off 257 balls took India to a position of strength where they finished the first day with 336 runs on board.
The youngster remained unbeaten as India lost a flurry of wickets in the final session of the Test match. Jaiswal earned a lot of praise from former India cricketer Aakash Chopra, who compared the youngster with the legendary Don Bradman.
“The most fantastic performance came from Yashasvi Jaiswal’s bat. How well the kid batted. Jimmy Anderson was the only pacer and he kept leaving his deliveries. He gave a lot of respect to James Anderson’s bowling,” Aakash Chopra said on his YouTube channel.
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“When spin came, he hit two fours in the first over. After that, he showed why this player is so special. His conversion rate of fifties into hundreds for players who have 10 or more centuries in first-class cricket, he is even above Sir Don Bradman at this point in time,” he further added.
The second highest score in the Indian innings was from Rajat Patidar, who looked impressive for his 32 runs. Patidar was dismissed in an unlucky manner when Rehan Ahmed’s delivery jumped up sharply from good length, hit the handle of his bat and rolled into the stumps. Chopra pointed out the gulf of difference between Jaiswal and the other batters and said that Jaiswal was poles apart than the rest of the Indian team.
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“Yashasvi is living up to his name. He shows every time that he is absolutely stellar. He is standing alone on 179 because the second-highest is not even 40. So Yashasvi Jaiswal on one side and the rest of the Indian team on the other,” Chopra said.
“He showed how you need to play spin on a surface that is playing like a true Indian surface. It is not a bad pitch, there isn’t too much help for spin, on Day 1 of course. He smothered the full deliveries and hit them hard. He didn’t have any hesitation to hit in the air and reached his century with a six,” concluded the former India cricketer.
India will start their innings at 336/6 with Jaiswal and Ravichandran Ashwin at the crease.
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