India vs England 5th Test: England had a bad start in the Dharamsala Test. The team won the toss and decided to bat first. During this, opener Ben Duckett was out after scoring 27 runs. Ollie Pope also left after Duckett. He was out after scoring 11 runs. Kuldeep Yadav showed the way to the pavilion to the Pope. But Dhruv Jurel played the most important role in this wicket of Kuldeep. Dhruv had told Kuldeep one ball in advance that Pope was going to move forward.
Actually, Duckett and Jack Crawley came to open for England after winning the toss and came to bat first. During this, Duckett was out after scoring 27 runs in 58 balls. He was dismissed by Kuldeep. After this he also made Ollie Pope walk. Dhruv Jurel is doing wicketkeeping. Seeing Pope’s way of playing, he had warned Kuldeep one ball in advance that he would play ahead. Kuldeep took advantage of this and Dhruv stumped. In this way Pope was out after scoring 11 runs.
Kuldeep gave the first two wickets to Team India in the first innings. Till the time of writing the news, England had scored 109 runs with the loss of 2 wickets. For that, Crowley was playing with half-century innings. Whereas Joe Root is playing after scoring 7 runs. While bowling for India, Kuldeep took 2 wickets for 26 runs in the first 6 overs. Ravichandran Ashwin gave 29 runs in 6 overs. However, he could not take wickets during this period. Mohammad Siraj gave 24 runs in 8 overs. He also bowled a maiden over.
Dhruv to Kuldeep: “Yeh (Pope) will come, will come.”
Next ball: Pope st Jurel b Kuldeep 🔥 pic.twitter.com/A3r4of7Kku
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