Indian cricket team dominated the opening day of the fifth Test match against England and took control of the game on Thursday. Kuldeep Yadav and Ravichandran Ashwin shared nine wickets to bowl out England on 218 and then openers Rohit Sharma and Yashasvi Jaiswal boosted India to 135/1 in just 30 overs.
Kuldeep shattered England’s top-order with timely wickets and then Ashwin ran riot with four wickets. In-form Zak Crawley scored an impressive 79 off 108 balls but no other English batter managed to cross the 30-run mark at Dharamsala’s Himachal Pradesh Cricket Association Stadium.
Yashasvi Jaiswal then recorded his fifth fifty-plus score in this series by smashing 57 off just 58 balls and Rohit added 52* off 83 balls to help India score 135/1 in 30 overs, trailing by just 83 runs.
With a series win secured, the hosts made one change to their playing eleven with uncapped Devdutt Padikkal replacing Rajat Patidar.
India Playing XI: Yashasvi Jaiswal, Rohit Sharma (c), Shubman Gill, Devdutt Padikkal, Ravindra Jadeja, Sarfaraz Khan, Dhruv Jurel (wk), Ravichandran Ashwin, Kuldeep Yadav, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammed Siraj
England Playing XI: Zak Crawley, Ben Duckett, Ollie Pope, Joe Root, Ben Stokes (c), Jonny Bairstow, Ben Foakes (wk), Tom Hartley, Shoaib Bashir, Mark Wood, James Anderson
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