Gill ran back 15 meters and took Duckett's catch: Ashwin got guard of honour, Crawley got life due to Rohit not taking review; top moments
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The last match of the Test series between India and England is being played in Dharamshala. On the first day of the match, England were all out for 218 runs in the first innings. Till stumps, India scored 00 runs without loss. Captain Rohit Sharma remained unbeaten after scoring 00 runs and Yashasvi Jaiswal remained unbeaten after scoring 00 runs.
Veteran off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin, who played his 100th Test on Thursday, was given a guard of honor by the players of the Indian team. Then Shubman Gill took a brilliant catch of Ben Duckett. Not only this, Jack Crawley got a lease of life due to Indian captain Rohit Sharma not taking the review.
1. Guard of honor to Ashwin in the 100th test
Off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin is playing the 100th Test of his career against England in Dharamsala. Coach Rahul Dravid gave him the 100th Test cap. Before the start of the match, the Indian players gave him a guard of honour. Earlier, Ashwin was seen with wife Preeti Narayanan and daughter.
Indian players gave guard of honor to Ravichandran Ashwin.
Before the match, coach Rahul Dravid gave Ashwin the 100th Test cap.
Ravichandran Ashwin with family members before the 100th Test.
2. Jack Crowley was hit by Siraj's ball.
Fast bowler Mohammad Siraj bowled the last ball of the 14th over on short length. Jack Crawley tried to pull on the ball, but missed the pace and the ball hit him in the back of the ribs. Although the speed of the ball was 135 KMPH.
During the first session, Jack Crawley was hit by Siraj's ball.
3. Gill caught Duckett by running back 15 meters
Kuldeep bowled the last ball of the 18th over with a googly. On this ball, Ben Duckett wanted to hit a big hit towards midwicket, but the ball hit the outer part of the bat and went behind the cover. In such a situation, Shubman Gill took a brilliant catch by diving and running 15 meters backwards from the cover. On the basis of this catch of Gill, India got its first success in Dharamsala Test.
Shubman Gill taking the catch of English opener Ben Duckett. Duckett was out after scoring 27 runs.
Gill took the catch of Ben Duckett by diving.
4. Pope's catch was missed by Gill.
Gill missed the catch of Ollie Pop on the 5th ball of the 19th over. He was fielding at short leg and Ashwin bowled the ball on the leg stump. Pope tried to dive and the ball took the edge and passed quickly from Gill, but Gill could not catch it. If Gill had managed to catch this ball, it would have been an amazing catch.
5. Crawley gets life due to Rohit not taking DRS
Jack Crowley got a lease of life due to Indian captain Rohit Sharma not taking DRS on the 5th ball of the 26th over. Kuldeep's ball was taking turn while staying down on the leg side. Crawley tried to cut it towards fine leg, but the ball took the light edge of the bat and touched wicketkeeper Dhruv Jurel's hand and went up in the air, which was caught by Sarfaraz Khan standing at short leg.
Indian fielders appealed for caught out, but the field umpire rejected it. Here Sarfaraz insisted Indian captain Rohit Sharma to take DRS, but Jurel said that he does not know whether the ball has taken the outer edge of the bat or not. In such a situation, Rohit did not take DRS. Replays later showed that the ball had hit the outside of the bat.
Later Jack Crawley was out after scoring 79 runs. He was bowled by Kuldeep Yadav on the second ball of the 38th over.
Sarfaraz took a brilliant catch of Crawley at short leg, but Rohit did not take DRS.
6. Ashwin-Kuldeep were seen giving the ball to each other
After England were all out in 57.4 overs, Indian spinners Ravichandran Ashwin and Kuldeep Yadav were seen passing the ball to each other. This incident happened after the end of England's first innings, when the Indian team was coming out of the field. Then Ashwin gave the ball to Kuldeep and Kuldeep returned the ball to Ashwin. Finally Kuldeep came out of the field with the ball.
In the first innings, Kuldeep took 5 wickets (5 wickets in an innings), while Ashwin took 4 wickets. He is playing the 100th Test of his career.
Kuldeep Yadav completed 51 test wickets.
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