IND vs ENG 1st Test Day 2 Highlights: India end Day 2 with a 175-run lead as KL Rahul, Jadeja star with bat

Axar Patel smashed 4, 6 and 4 to end what has been a sensational day at the office for India against England in the first Test as the hosts took a 175-run lead in the first innings. Ravindra Jadeja is unbeaten on 81 and will hope to get to a memorable century on what has been a slow pitch.

Ravindra Jadeja and Axar Patel have helped India cross the 400-run mark and take a lead in excess of 150. India did lose quick wickets after the tea break in the form of KS Bharat and then R Ashwin but Jadeja and Axar have done extremely well as the hosts are in cruise control of the match.

A shocker for India and their fans. It's the second mix-up like this for the Indian team in a month following the Rohit Sharma-ShubmanGill incident in the first T20I against Afghanistan as Ravindra Jadeja at the non-striker's end saw R Ashwin hit to the cover fielder and called for a run. However, Jadeja looked at the fielder again and realised that there wasn't a run there and came back while Ashwin had committed and was distraught as he took a long walk back. 

Jadeja gets to his fifty now. Brings out the sword celebration. Pushed this in front of cover where the fielder fumbled. India's lead is nearing 100 now

Jadeja was given out LBW but he immediately went for a review. This was on a good length on the off stump, Jadeja tried pushing it on the leg side. The ball deflected to the pads after hitting the bat but the umpire gave him out. Jadeja reviewed and survived

Jadeja is nearing to his fifty and is on 46 at the moment. India's lead has already gone past 50 and they are looking to add on these crucial runs. Second new ball is available in 3 overs. India 310/5 after 77

Ravindra Jadeja looks settled batting on 40 as India have crossed 300 in their first innings with the bat. The lead has gone past 50 and the Indian batters will be looking to double it.

India have now gone past 300 as their lead has crossed 50 too. Bharat and Jadeja are out in the middle. The England spinners are still hunting for more.

Ohh, KL Rahul misses his hundred too. Hartley gets Rahul on 86. It was a half-tracker and Rahul looked to heave it over deep mid-wicket. But he could not get enough on it as Rehan Ahmed took a safe catch at the deep. Bharat is in now.

Umpire Chris Gaffaney gave Ravindra Jadeja out on the field when the ball seemed to hit the bat first with the pad adjacent off Jack Leach. However, Jadeja was quick to go for a review and the decision was overturned as the ultra edge didn't have any murmur and LBW didn't stand a chance.

KL Rahul with a couple of sixes against the leggie Rehan Ahmed got India into the lead as the hosts will be hoping to add 100-150 runs at the least to bat England out of the game.

Shreyas Iyer has found the deep mid-wicket fielder to perfection. This was fuller ball and he went for a sweep slog. Tom Hartley was the only fielder in the deep and he found him. India go 4 down as Jadeja comes in. IND 223/4

KL Rahul has become the 14th Indian player to get a 50-plus score in his 50th Test. Rahul started his innings watchfully before playing his shots and now looks more solid than ever and has stitched a 63-run stand with Shreyas Iyer.

And that would be lunch on the second day. India are at 222/3 after the end of the first session. 103 runs and 2 wickets from that one with Rahul and Iyer solid in the middle.

After losing a couple of wickets in the first hour, the duo of Shreyas Iyer and KL Rahul has stabilised India's innings. Iyer passed the Mark Wood test successfully as even though the pacer bowled a barrage of bouncers at both him and KL Rahul, but the duo came out unscathed. 

Mark Wood has been brought in as soon as Iyer has come in. He did not face him in the first over but in the second, we saw the battle unfold. Wood kept three fielders - deep third, deep fine-leg and backward square-leg for a bouncer ploy and bowled a couple of good length balls to bluff the Indian batter. He finally went short and Iyer pulled one to square leg for a single.

And Shubman Gill's stay has come to an end. Hartley gets his first Test wicket. Gill was not looking confident against the spin in his 66-ball stay. This was a flighted delivery, Gill did not reach to the ball but played across the line towards mid-wicket, where Duckett completes the catch. India 3 down for 159 now. Iyer is in with Rahul.

10 overs are done on the opening day. 38 runs and a wicket from those 60 balls and it should be called shared till now. Jaiswal kicked things off with a lofted four before falling. Rahul looked tentative in the start but now is looking to express more. 

While Rahul is looking more confident now, Gill is yet to break free. He has made 4 runs from 14 balls till now. Jack Leach is in now for Joe Root.

KL Rahul is now showing his intent with the bat. He is striking a few boundaries to keep the pressure off.

Hartley is bowling from the other end as England look to get a few more wickets. They are troubling the batters a bit. Root got an outside edge off Rahul's bat but was not caught by the keeper. There was half an appeal for LBW against Rahul off Hartley but was turned down. England are keeping fielders close to the bat with short mid-on in place along with slip and short leg. They also had a short mid-off for a brief.

And here's the wicket England wanted. They brought Joe Root for the first time in the game and he gets a wicket in the first over. It was tossed up around off, spun a little away and Jaiswal got the inside part of the bat straight to Root. Joy for England. Rahul is in now

And here we go. Day 2 is live for you. Two youngsters - Jaiswal and Gill are out in the middle for India. And here he is, many wished to see him bowling - Joe Root comes in and has been smashed to long-on by Jaiswal for four on ball 2. What an intent!! 

The play is less than five minutes away from now. Players from both teams are about to come out in the middle. It will be Jaiswal and Gill - the overnight pair - to come out as England will be looking to readdress the bowling flaws of the opening day.

The pitch of the first day was not as bad as what the England scorecard reads. India outclassed them in both departments until now. Here is what we can expect on the second day.

"365 runs and 11 wickets on the first day. It did look like a day 3 wicket yesterday, there was spin and bounce and there were odd occasions when the top was disturbed. The wicket has a bit of wear and tear, there could be some variable bounce, the spinners will have to pull their lengths back. Consistency of lengths will be the key," Murli Kartik and Kevin Pietersen say in their pitch report.

Indian spin wizard Ravichandran Ashwin, who is gunning for 400 Test scalps, was in awe of the young opener Yashasvi Jaiswal. Ashwin saw Rishabh Pant in him sometimes while Jaiswal was batting. 

"That's the beauty of playing this sport at this level. Somebody breaks through the system, doesn't have any excess baggage, had a great time in the IPL, had a wonderful start to his first-class cricket. He's literally not put a foot wrong. He's walked into Test cricket, he's taken it like a fish to water. His carefree approach is enabling him to play some wonderful shots. I am quite enjoying it. I get a feeling sometimes when he's batting, I am seeing Rishabh Pant there. Both of them bat similarly to the left-arm spinner," Ashwin said.

With his blazinng unbeaten knock of 76, Jaiswal has entered in an elite list:

Indian Players to score most runs in first day's play after fielding first:

95* G Gambhir vs Zim Harare 2005

76* Y Jaiswal vs Eng Hyderabad 2024

75* KL Rahul vs WI Kingston 2016

The English opener believes that the team could pick a few quick wickets on Day 2. "We could easily take three or four (wickets) tomorrow morning for 10 runs. It feels like a tricky pitch to start on. Shubman there, we could have had him there. It looked like a dead lbw (when Tom Hartley struck him on pads) and somehow, it's bouncing over the stumps. It's one of those things. We'll stick to our mantra and that's taking wickets and looking to be positive. Hopefully, that will happen for us as well," he said.

England opener Ben Duckett was surprised the way the Indian openers went about their business on Day 1. He stated that the team's 246 looked 'above par' on this pitch but the Indian players good with the bat. "It was quite a good day. I thought we were pretty happy there, getting bowled out for what we were. I thought Stokesy was superb. We found it pretty tricky and I think, to be honest, they played well and really positively tonight. It's tough work against that attack, and I thought we grafted really well today... when the ball is spinning like that on day one, it can be quite tough," the English opener said

Bazball? England's or India's? The first day was filled with everything that was talked about in the build-up to the game. We saw England's Bazball to some extent, India's spin dominance and India's Bazball too. Ben Stokes had a difficult time in the middle when he was on 30 off 62 balls but then took the attack to end up scoring 70 from 88 balls before he was outdone by a brilliant off-cutter from Jasprit Bumrah. Yashasvi Jaiswal in reply showed his type of Bazball too, pulling and driving the bowlers effortlessly in a stroke-filled 76 from 70 balls.

Only one day in the India vs England 1st Test has passed and the Men in Blue are already on top of England as of now. With a brilliant half-century from Yashasvi Jaiswal, the hosts are placed extremely well at the moment. After bundling England out for 246, India have cut 119 of the total for the loss of only Rohit Sharma. They have Jaiswal in the middle, gunning for the three-digit mark and Shubman Gill, who is looking to make number 3 his own. Another crucial day in the contest as India would look to go big today. Stay tuned for all the updates