Worst in 148 years! Prasidh Krishna sets unwanted Test record

NEW DELHI: India seemed connected people to vessel England retired cheaply aft removing Joe Root and Ben Stokes aboriginal connected Day 3 of the 2nd Test of the Anderson-Tendulkar Trophy astatine Edgbaston connected Friday.

But Jamie Smith and Harry Brook had different plans, hammering centuries to signifier a singular counterattack and tilt the momentum backmost successful England’s favour.Mohammed Siraj kickstarted the play by striking doubly successful the 2nd implicit of the day. First, helium got Joe Root to tickle 1 disconnected his pads to Rishabh Pant. On the precise adjacent delivery, helium bowled a sharp, rising transportation that caught Ben Stokes disconnected guard. The England skipper fended astatine it, lone to mitt it down to Pant for a aureate duck — his archetypal successful Test cricket — leaving England reeling.

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At 84/5, India looked firmly successful control. But that changed quickly.Brook displayed elegance and authority, unfurling crisp drives and flicks disconnected Siraj, portion Smith countered with assertive strokeplay — slamming the shot down the crushed and aboriginal pulling and driving Akash Deep for boundaries. Brook brought up his 2nd 50 of the bid with a commanding thrust disconnected Siraj, and soon Smith began dismantling India's short-ball strategy.

Brook continued the charge, swivelling connected the backmost ft to smash Prasidh Krishna for 3 fours and a six connected the leg-side, earlier driving him erstwhile much for a boundary. That implicit unsocial leaked 23 runs.Smith, meanwhile, reached his 50 disconnected conscionable 43 balls and kept going hard. He punished Prasidh’s abbreviated balls with a 4 and a six, past took 3 much boundaries disconnected Washington Sundar. Against Ravindra Jadeja, helium erstwhile again went aerial, launching a 4 and a six to proceed the onslaught.Amid this brutal assault, Krishna's struggles successful Test cricket grew much glaring. The pacer present holds the unfortunate grounds for the worst system complaint successful Test past (minimum 500 deliveries).In the archetypal Test, which India mislaid by 5 wickets, Krishna conceded 128 runs successful the archetypal innings portion taking 3 wickets astatine an system of 6.40. In the 2nd innings, helium gave distant 92 runs for 2 wickets, with an system of 6.13.His show during Day 3 worsened the numbers further: 5-0-50-0 astatine an system complaint of 10.00 — the astir costly spell (five oregon much overs) by an Indian bowler since December 2006.Overall, Krishna has present conceded runs astatine implicit 5 per implicit successful his little Test vocation — a glaring interest for India’s gait department.