IND vs ENG Live: Shubman Gill, Ravindra Jadeja set to extend India's advantage

India's determination to remainder gait spearhead Jasprit Bumrah for the 2nd Test against England astatine Edgbaston has stirred debate, with caput manager Gautam Gambhir coming nether scrutiny from respective erstwhile players and cricket pundits.

Despite a week-long spread betwixt the archetypal and 2nd Tests, the Indian squad absorption adhered to their pre-series strategy of having Bumrah play lone 3 of the 5 Tests successful the bid — a workload-management determination meant to sphere the pacer's semipermanent fittingness pursuing his instrumentality from a backmost injury.

However, the determination has been met with disapproval from experts specified arsenic Ravi Shastri, Dale Steyn, and Kumar Sangakkara, who questioned the contented of benching India’s champion bowler erstwhile the broadside is trailing 0-1 successful the series.

India made 3 changes to the XI for the Edgbaston Test. Akash Deep was brought successful arsenic Bumrah’s replacement, portion Nitish Kumar Reddy came successful for Shardul Thakur, and Washington Sundar replaced Sai Sudharsan. Notably, Karun Nair was promoted to bat astatine No. 3, a slot vacated aft Sudharsan was near out.

India’s determination to remainder Bumrah and fortify the batting with Washington Sundar and Reddy raised eyebrows, particularly aft the team’s inability to instrumentality 20 wickets successful Leeds.

The enactment near Kuldeep Yadav retired again, with Akash Deep coming successful for Bumrah.

Another talking constituent was the visibly shortened bound ropes astatine Edgbaston — a tweak that stirred speculation astir favouring the Bazball approach.

With India posting conscionable 310 contempt the trimmed field, and lacking their ace pacer, the strategy volition beryllium tested arsenic the Test unfolds.

India began cautiously aft being enactment successful to bat nether overcast skies.

KL Rahul was the archetypal to go, chopping connected to his stumps disconnected Woakes for conscionable 2. But Karun Nair, batting astatine No. 3, and Jaiswal built a promising 80-run partnership. Nair looked assured with a fluent 31, but fell conscionable earlier lunch, nicking a crisp Brydon Carse transportation to 2nd slip.

Jaiswal took complaint with assured strokeplay, including crisp screen drives and pulls, handling Carse’s short-ball ploy effectively. India reached 121/2 astatine luncheon - a just instrumentality aft a investigating archetypal hour.

India's determination to spell with 3 all-rounders saw debutant Nitish Kumar Reddy bat astatine No. 7, but helium endured a forgettable outing - shouldering arms to a Woakes transportation that sent his disconnected stump cartwheeling.

Earlier, Rishabh Pant (25) fell to a clever tract trap by Stokes, picking retired long-on trying to spell aerial against Bashir.

Those duplicate strikes concisely opened the doorway for England earlier Gill and Jadeja restored calm. However, the late-session wobble rekindled concerns astir India’s mediate bid fragility, particularly with a airy bowling onslaught selected.

Yashasvi Jaiswal looked acceptable for different Edgbaston classical earlier falling for 87 disconnected 107 — an assertive yet measured sound that stitched the backbone of India’s innings. His dismissal came against the tally of play erstwhile helium slashed astatine a wide transportation from Ben Stokes, edging it to the keeper.

Despite the level helium and Gill laid, India slowed down post-lunch. England managed to cheque the tally flow, with conscionable 84 runs coming successful the 28 overs of the 2nd session.

The Edgbaston crowd, particularly the lively Eric Hollies Stand, provided much-needed vigor arsenic India opted for caution connected a slower transportation than Leeds.

Shubman Gill displayed immense patience and maturity to anchor India with a gritty unbeaten 114 connected Day 1 of the 2nd Test astatine Edgbaston.

Coming into the lucifer with the added work of starring the side, Gill soaked up unit and paced his innings methodically. He reached his seventh Test 100 - and 2nd successful arsenic galore matches - successful benignant with back-to-back sweeps disconnected Shoaib Bashir precocious successful the day.

His unbroken 99-run basal with Ravindra Jadeja (41*) ensured India reached 310/5 astatine stumps, recovering from a mini-collapse successful the last session.

With the transportation offering small assistance to bowlers and nary Jasprit Bumrah successful India’s ranks, Gill’s sound whitethorn beryllium pivotal arsenic the crippled progresses.