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Rajasekhara Reddy ACA: A sizzling double-strike from Jasprit Bumrah, along with Kuldeep Yadav and Axar Patel picking a scalp each helped India bounce back in the second session on day two’s play at the Dr. Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy ACA-VDCA Cricket Stadium on Saturday.

At tea, England are 155/4 in 33 overs and trail India by 241 runs. The session began with birthday boy Zak Crawley getting a life at 18, when Shubman Gill couldn’t hold on to a chance at short mid-wicket. Crawley proceeded to take four boundaries off Bumrah and even took a boundary off Ashwin by beating leg-gully on his right.

But India soon had a wicket when Kuldeep Yadav got extra bounce on a good length ball which Ben Duckett tried to defend and the ball was safely caught by silly point. Ollie Pope survived on his very first ball when KS Bharat couldn’t gather the ball cleanly, thus missing a stumping chance.