After another good batting performance against England in the second Test, Yashasvi Jaiswal spoke about the Birmingham pitch. Jaiswal along with captain Shubman Gill who scored a century helped India to a good score. Jaiswal said the seam movement and bounce at Birmingham was less than Leeds.
Gill’s second century in his second match as captain and Jaiswal’s 87 was the main contribution as India ended the day with over 300 runs and just 5 wickets down.
In the post day press conference Jaiswal said: I feel there’s a difference between Leeds and here. The seam movement was more there and the bounce was more here, it’s less here. The environment is different so we need to adjust.
Looking back at the day’s play Jaiswal felt the team got a good score and said about the plans for day 2: We will try to bat as long as possible. Both the batsmen are doing well and I hope it continues.
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In the match England chose to field after winning the toss. After KL Rahul’s (2) early dismissal an 80 run partnership between Jaiswal (87 off 107 balls, 13 fours) and Karun Nair (31 off 50 balls, 5 fours) stabilised India’s position by the end of the first session. Then Jaiswal and Gill added 66 runs. India then lost two quick wickets, Rishabh Pant (25 off 42 balls, 1 four, 1 six) and Nitish Kumar Reddy (1) in quick succession. But then Gill (114* off 216 balls, 12 fours) and Ravindra Jadeja (41* off 67 balls, 5 fours) added an unbeaten 99 runs to take India to 310/5 at stumps.
Chris Woakes (2/59) was the most successful England bowler. Ben Stokes, Shoaib Bashir and Brydon Carse got one wicket each.
