Second Test day one: India 336-6 v EnglandBashir takes wickets of Rohit Sharma and Axar Patel
On a day when English eyes were trained on their side’s latest gamble on youth it was one of India’s greenhorns who delivered the biggest payout. Yashasvi Jaiswal, an opener whose backstory may well make a decent biopic in time, registered his first Test century on home soil with a performance of elegant, calculated aggression.
Not that it wasn’t a fairytale start for young Shoaib Bashir in this second Test. After being presented with his cap by the injured Jack Leach before what appeared a critical toss, the 20-year-old off-spinner put all that visa strife behind him in Visakhapatnam. Bashir winkled out Rohit Sharma to leg slip with just his 21st ball of the morning and bookended his day with a second when Axar Patel slashed to backward point before stumps. If Bashir slept before this debut, Sharma was a victim he would have dreamed about.