During the second Test match between India and England, a bad news came out for former veteran cricketer Sunil Gavaskar. According to reports, his mother-in-law Pushpa Mehrotra passed away, due to which he had to suddenly leave his commentary duties. He immediately left for Kanpur.

Let us tell you that this is not the first time that Gavaskar (Sunil Gavaskar) has had to face such an incident during a cricket assignment. His mother Meena Gavaskar passed away in 2022. She was 95, having played an important role in Gavaskar’s career.

Sunil Gavaskar resumed his commentary duties for the second Test in Visakhapatnam after taking part in the first Test in Hyderabad. But due to this unfortunate incident that happened on the first day of the test match, he had to leave the commentary duty. The cricket world expressed its condolences to him and wished for the family to bear this loss.

The first day was in the name of Yashasvi Jaiswal.

Talking about the match, the first day was entirely in the name of Indian opener Yashasvi Jaiswal, who scored his second century in Test cricket. He remained unbeaten on the first day and returned after scoring 179 runs. By the end of the first day’s play, India had scored 336 runs at the loss of 6 wickets.

Yashasvi remained at the crease from one end, while he did not get anyone’s support from the other end. Rohit Sharma (14), Shubman Gill (34), Shreyas Iyer (27) failed to play big innings. Debutant Rajat Patidar also unfortunately got out after scoring only 32 runs. Akshar Patel contributed 27 runs and Shrikar Bharat contributed 17 runs.