INDIA DOMINATE DAY 1 AS KOHLI AND PUJARA HITS CENTURIES
Visakhapatnam: Indian skipper Virat Kohli smashed his 14 Test century in his 50 Test match. This is his second century against the touring side England. He took 156 balls to complete his century with 14 fours. He remained on 151 at stumps on day 1. Earlier India won the toss and elected to bat. There was two changes in the playing elevan, with KL Rahul replacing Gautam Gambhir and Jayant Yadav making his test debut replacing the legspinner Amit Mishra. James Anderson came into the squad after a shoulder injury in place of Chris Woakes, who suffered an injury during the first test.
Earlier electing to bat, the Indian team was in some sort of bother, while loosing both the openers with the score card showing 22/2, KL Rahul for a Duck, and vijay made 20. From then onwards its was all kohli and pujara's show, both scoring centuries. Chetesewar Pujara continued his fine form slamming another century with an record partnership of 226 runs for the third wicket. Pujara has hit centuries in his last three matches, continuing his superb form. Pujara was out for 119 of 204 balls with 12 fours and 2 mighty sixes.
England paid the penalty of dropping kohli, at 56, when he mispulled a ball from Ben Stokes to deep fine leg which was misjudged by Adil Rasheed.
James Anderson was the stand out bowler of England with figure of 3/44 in his 16 overs, which was also a comeback match , due to a shoulder injury.
At the end of day 1, India made a mighty score of 317/4 with Ravichandran Aswin giving company to this skipper
Kohli's love affair with Dr. Raja sekhara Reddy stadium continued when he struck 3 centuries from 4 ODIS and a Test match. Visakhapatnam has been his hunting ground. On the way to his century, Kohli also became the sixth Indian to score a century during 50th test match.
SCORE CARD:
K.L. RAHUL : C Stokes B Broad 0
M.VIJAY : C Stokes B Anderson 20
PUJARA : C Bairstow B Anderson 119
VIRAT KOHLI : not out 151
RAHANE : C Bairstow B Anderson 23
ASHWIN : not out 1
Total : 317/4
Earlier electing to bat, the Indian team was in some sort of bother, while loosing both the openers with the score card showing 22/2, KL Rahul for a Duck, and vijay made 20. From then onwards its was all kohli and pujara's show, both scoring centuries. Chetesewar Pujara continued his fine form slamming another century with an record partnership of 226 runs for the third wicket. Pujara has hit centuries in his last three matches, continuing his superb form. Pujara was out for 119 of 204 balls with 12 fours and 2 mighty sixes.
England paid the penalty of dropping kohli, at 56, when he mispulled a ball from Ben Stokes to deep fine leg which was misjudged by Adil Rasheed.
James Anderson was the stand out bowler of England with figure of 3/44 in his 16 overs, which was also a comeback match , due to a shoulder injury.
At the end of day 1, India made a mighty score of 317/4 with Ravichandran Aswin giving company to this skipper
Kohli's love affair with Dr. Raja sekhara Reddy stadium continued when he struck 3 centuries from 4 ODIS and a Test match. Visakhapatnam has been his hunting ground. On the way to his century, Kohli also became the sixth Indian to score a century during 50th test match.
SCORE CARD:
K.L. RAHUL : C Stokes B Broad 0
M.VIJAY : C Stokes B Anderson 20
PUJARA : C Bairstow B Anderson 119
VIRAT KOHLI : not out 151
RAHANE : C Bairstow B Anderson 23
ASHWIN : not out 1
Total : 317/4
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