Ind vs AFG Test Day 2: India’s dominance continues with Gill’s century and Pant’s stormy innings, score reaches close to 500

New Delhi: The first session of the second day of the one-off Test match being held between India and Afghanistan at Mullanpur Stadium in Chandigarh was very exciting. On June 7, the second day of the match started with India’s dominance. But Afghanistan’s bowlers made a brilliant comeback in the first session and gave a tough fight to the Indian batsmen.

Scored 491 runs after losing 6 wickets in the first innings.

By lunch break on the second day, India had scored 491 runs after losing 6 wickets in its first innings. Afghanistan definitely got 3 big successes in the first session. But during this period, Team India also added 107 runs on the scoreboard, due to which India’s hold on the match remains strong.

Big innings of Shubman Gill and Rishabh Pant

On the first day of the match, India scored a huge score of 368/3 in 85 overs, thanks to a brilliant century by KL Rahul, 81 runs by Sai Sudarshan and 24 runs by Yashasvi Jaiswal. Today, Indian captain Shubman Gill took his score of the first day forward and played a captaincy inning of 126 runs while batting brilliantly. India got its fourth blow at the total score of 416 when Gill returned to the pavilion after getting out.

Dhruv Jurel could not last long

After the dismissal of Shubman Gill, Dhruv Jurel came to the crease but he could not last long today and left after a small partnership. After Jurel was out, wicketkeeper batsman Rishabh Pant took over the innings. He lost his wicket on a personal score of 81 runs. Pant hit 6 fours and 3 skyscraper sixes in his sensible innings of 121 balls.

Afghan captain Shahidi implicated Pant

Afghan captain Hashmatullah Shahidi trapped Pant in a way and Pant’s wicket was the biggest blow for India. On the fourth ball of the 102nd over of the innings, Pant tried to send the ball of Afghanistan captain Shahidi across the boundary. But the ball hit the lower part of the bat and floated in the air and Azmatullah Omarzai took a simple catch at long off and ended Pant’s innings.

Washington Sundar and Manav Sutar at the crease

After Pant’s dismissal, India’s young spinner Manav Suthar came to the crease. Whose debut match this is in international test cricket. Till the announcement of lunch, the Indian team has added 491 runs at the loss of 6 wickets. At present, Washington Sundar is at the crease with 23 runs and Manav Suthar, who is playing his first match, is standing with 16 runs.