IND vs AFG Test Match: At how many runs did India declare its first innings? How many wickets did Manav Sutar take against Afghanistan in Test debut? How many runs did Indian captain Shubman Gill score in the first innings? By how many runs was Afghanistan behind at the end of the second day’s play?
Mullanpur: First the strong performance of the batsmen and then the lethal bowling of young spinner Manav Sutar on his debut, thanks to both of these, India has tightened its grip on the one-off Test match against Afghanistan. India declared its first innings at 564 runs for 8 wickets. In response, the visiting team Afghanistan has scored 113 runs for 5 wickets by the end of the day’s play. The team is still 451 runs behind India and is in danger of follow-on.
After scoring 368 runs for 3 wickets on the first day, captain Shubman Gill and Rishabh Pant batted well for India on Sunday too. Both of them made a partnership of 169 runs in 216 balls for the fourth wicket. When the team’s score was 416 runs, Gill was out after scoring 126 runs. Rishabh Pant, who was moving towards a century, also returned to the pavilion after scoring 81 runs. After this, Washington Sundar took over the innings and remained not out after scoring 52 runs. Dhruv Jurel contributed 19 runs, Manav Sutar contributed 28 runs and Mohammad Siraj contributed 22 runs. Mohammad Salim took 6 wickets for Afghanistan.
The wonder of the human and the famous
After this, Afghanistan, which started its first innings, suffered a setback in the sixth over itself. Manav Sutar, who was bowling his first over, dismissed Abdul Malik (16). Except Rahmat Shah (43* runs), no other batsman could stay on the crease. After Malik, Manav also took the wickets of Rahmanullah Gurbaz and Afsar and broke the back of the Afghan team. From the other end, Kannada bowler Prasidh Krishna also bowled tightly and showed the way to the pavilion to Sediqullah Atal and captain Hashmatullah Shahidi.
Wicket in the very first over: Manav became India’s 8th bowler
Manav Sutar has become the 8th Indian bowler to take a wicket in his very first over of the Test debut match. Before him, Montu Banerjee (1948), Manohar Hardikar (1958), Waman Kumar (1961), Chetan Sharma (1984), WV Raman (1988), Nilesh Kulkarni (1997) and Tinu Yohannan (2001) had taken wickets in their very first over.
Score: India first innings 564/8 declared (Gill 126, Rahul 100, Rishabh 81, Washington 52*; Saleem 6/140). Afghanistan first innings 113/5 (at the end of second day’s play) (Rahmat 43*, Manav 3-21, Prasidh 2-27).