Bumrah with the bat, Bumrah with the ball, captain is leading from the front
On day 2 of the fifth test, India continued their dominance firstly with the bat and then with the ball. Jadeja hit century, his maiden in overseas tests, and India set the massive total of 416 in the first innings. The limelight of day 2 was Indian captain Jasprit Bumrah, who broke a world record, surprisingly with the bat rather than the ball. He broke the record of Brian Lara of making most runs in one over in test cricket, which was previously 28 but Bumrah scored 29 runs with his bat. Stuart Broad was the bowler, who gave 35 runs overall in that over including the 29 smashed by Bumrah and now he holds the unwanted record of most expensive over in both longer and shorter format in international cricket. Anderson took fifer but other English bowlers were quite expensive.
In the bowling, Bumrah gave brilliant start to India by destroying the top order of England. Siraj took the wicket of dangerous Root, who is in outstanding form and Shami got the wicket of Leach. England are 5 down for 84 only and they still need 133 to avoid follow-on.
Ben Stokes has big responsibility to rescue his team and lead from the front and he would also expect some great efforts from Bairstow and Billings. India would look to end up the things early by taking the remaining 5 wickets quickly and giving the follow-on.
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