Bashir's four-wicket burst puts India on backfoot after Jaiswal's gritty fifty

Young offspinner Shoaib Bashir scythed through the Indian lineup with an impressive fourwicket haul that left the hosts stuttering at 219 for seven on day two of the IND vs ENG 4th Test on SaturdayThe 20yearold Bashir playing only his second Test got rid of Shubman Gill 38 Rajat Patidar 17 Ravindra Jadeja 12 on a pitch that has uneven bounce and cracks to rattle the Indian top and middle orderHe returned after the tea break in his marathon 31over spell across two sessions to clean up inform Yashasvi Jaiswal 73 with a ball that skid through the defence of the lefthanderWith intermittent wickets pegging India back they were forced to play a catchup game and are still trailing by 134 runsIf it was not for a combative partnership between Dhruv Jurel 30 batting and Kuldeep Yadav 17 India would have struggled to cross even 200run mark They had joined forces when the scorecard read 177 for sevenThe two batters played late and did not commit early into their shots a ply that worked well in their unbeaten 42run standThis was after Englands first innings folded for 353 after starting the day at 302 for seven The total could have been bigger if Ollie Robinson 58 had not attempted an audacious reverse sweep off Ravindra JadejaThe 22yearold Jaiswal yet again produced a confident knock He now has scored 618 runs with an average of 103 in this series He looked for another big one before being done in by low bounceLeftarm spinner Tom Hartley returned with figures of 247 that included the crucial breakthrough of Sarfaraz Khan 14 who had a frustrating stay He also survived a runoutIndia lost Rohit Sharma 2 cheaply when old warhorse James Anderson induced a faintedge from the skipper in the third over of their inningsBut thereafter Jaiswal showed why he is Indias latest run machine when he overcame some anxious moments to post his fourth fiftyplus score in this seriesFrom a watchful start India No 3 Gill accelerated postlunch break taking on Anderson with two elegant boundaries one flick off the pads and a punch straight back down the groundBut Bashir gave England the breakthrough by trapping Gill halting the fine 82run alliance between Gill and JaiswalHe delivered a ball that took off the crack just outside off stump trapped Gill on the pad as Indians reviewed unsuccessfullyIt sort of triggered the Indian collapse as the batters failed to grind deep in showing little applicationHaving given a lifeline after sloppy displays in Rajkot Patidar had a nervy and tentative stayThe only bright spot of his innings was driving down Anderson past the gully for a boundary that brought up the 100 for India in the IND vs ENG 4th TestIt was just a matter of time before Bashir trapped him with a ball that skidded onto his padsPost his century in Rajkot Jadeja retained his No 5 spot and counterattacked Hartley for successive sixesBut Bashir was in the thick of the action again as his ball came off the cracks with Jadeja managing to loop the ball straight to short legEngland added 51 valuable runs to their overnight total as the Indian attack failed to make early penetration The last five England batters added 241 runs after being 1125 at lunch on the opening dayAlso ReadBrilliance unleashed Mumbais Musheer Khan notches up spectacular double tonJoe Root who dug in deep with his classical century spanning a little more than six hours remained stranded on 122 from 274 balls 10x4Robinson gifted away his wicket after making a careerbest 58 that resulted in Englands first innings ending at 353 Root and Robinsons eighth wicket alliance yielded 102 runs for EnglandWhile Mohammed Siraj 278 erred in his line and length debutant Akash Deep could not add to his tally of three wickets to return with 338 from 19 overs Jadeja took all the three wickets to return with 467 from his 325 oversRobinson had a great start to the morning when he flicked one away from a wayward Siraj in the first ball of the day for a boundary through fine legThere was no stopping him as he looked for every opportunity and took on Akash Deep with three boundaries that took him past his previous careerbest Test score of 42However a bizarre shot selection ended his gritty knock as he employed a grounded reverse sweep which was not necessary at that moment as Indian bowlers were hardly troubling the visitorsThe ball missed the edge of the bat but touched the gloves of Robinson before being grabbed by 23yearold Dhurv Jurel that ended a dogged 102run stand with RootEngland then fell in a jiffy with Bashir swinging his bat to the second ball and skied the ball to be caught at point Jadeja trapped Anderson to end England resistanceWith agency inputs