England look on course for defeat by India in the fifth Test after the hosts build a lead of 255 runs on day two in Dharamsala.
Ben Stokes took a wicket with his first competitive delivery for eight months but could not prevent England sliding towards defeat by India on the second day of the fifth Test in Dharamsala.
Spinners Shoaib Bashir and Tom Hartley engineered an India slump of five wickets for 52 runs before Kuldeep Yadav and Jasprit Bumrah took the hosts to 473-8, leading by 255.This had all the makings of a hard slog for England, and there certainly times when Rohit and Gill were together that it looked like being their most hopeless day at the end of a long tour.
The captain barely celebrated when he produced the beauty to Rohit, but England were pumped when James Anderson bowled Gill in the next over to move to 699 Test wickets. At that stage, India were three down with a lead of 68 and England had a glimpse. Gill was troubled by a pacey spell from Mark Wood, but kept attacking Bashir with two more sixes. Rohit reached his 12th Test hundred and Gill his fourth as 129 runs were scored in the morning session.
Kuldeep and Bumrah stopped the rot. Their runs were a bonus, but their real focus will be bowling India towards victory on day three.Shoaib Bashir impressed by taking three wickets in the final session But Stokes' bowling return, his first spell for 251 days, was pure theatre. The delivery that got Rohit nipped away to take the top of off stump, ending a run of 28 consecutive wickets taken by spinners going back to the fourth Test.
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