2024-02-16 18:15:22
Ravichandran Ashwin became the second Indian bowler to reach 500 Test wickets on Friday. On the other hand, England’s Ben Duckett brought up his third Test century. India-England shared the second day of the Rajkot Test.
In response to India’s 445 runs in 130.5 overs, Duckett’s unbeaten innings of 133 runs ended the second day with 207 runs for the loss of 2 wickets. The visitors are behind India by 238 runs. Duckett is unbeaten on 133 off 118 balls with 21 fours and 2 sixes. Joe Root is unbeaten with 1 four for 9 runs.
Jack Crowley was dismissed for 15 off 2 fours by Ashwin. Through which Ashwin reached the milestone of 500 wickets in Tests. And Olly Pope scored 39 runs with 5 fours and 1 six and was lbw by Mohammad Siraj.
Before that, India ended the first day with 326 runs for the loss of 5 wickets on the back of Rohit Sharma’s 131, Ravindra Jadeja’s unbeaten 110 and Sarfraz Khan’s 62. Jadeja, who was undefeated the previous day, returned to Sajghar today with 112 runs. Kuldeep, who was unbeaten for 1 run, got out for 4 runs today. Then India can go up to 445 runs with the bat of Dhruv Jurel, Ravichandran Ashwin and Jasprit Bumrah.
Jurel scored 46 runs with 2 fours and 3 sixes. Ashwin scored 37 runs in 6 fours. And Bumrah scored 26 runs with 3 fours and 1 six.
After one match with the ball, Mark Wood took 4 wickets with 114 runs with 2 maidens. Rehan Ahmed took 2 wickets with 85 runs including 2 maidens. James Anderson, Tom Hartley and Joe Root took 1 wicket each.