Day two: India 396 & 28-0; England 253 (trail by 171 runs)Fast bowler takes key wickets to put hosts firmly in control
Despite growing up in a country of princely batters and wily spinners, it was only ever fast bowling that interested Jasprit Bumrah. And not just any kind of fast bowling. Bumrah, a telly addict as a kid, said before this series that he was “fascinated” by the quicks who sent stumps cartwheeling out of the ground with the yorker.
One suspects a good few others may have been converted watching the second day of this second Test in Visakhapatnam when, at 1.45pm local time, Bumrah took to Ollie Pope’s stumps like a lumberjack. Middle stump jagged left, leg stump flew right, leaving off stump standing all alone. Pope’s feet, meanwhile, were briefly in a different postcode.