Ben Duckett was out after scoring 27 runs in the first innings of Dharamshala Test.
The fifth and last match of the five-match Test series between India and England is being played at the HPCA Stadium in Dharamshala. In this match, the England team won the toss and decided to bat. This decision of Ben Stokes seemed to be proved correct in the first hour. Their openers made a half-century partnership for the first wicket.
Looking at the batting of Ben Duckett and Jack Crawley, it seemed that both the batsmen would give a strong start to the team. In such a situation, Team India was searching for a wicket. Kuldeep Yadav gave the first success to Team India. He gave the first blow to England by dismissing Ben Duckett.
Shubman Gill also had the most important contribution in this wicket of Kuldeep. Actually, on the last ball of the 18th over, Ben Duckett tried to play a big shot and the ball went in the air. To catch this catch, Shubman Gill, who was fielding on the covers, ran backwards and went about 10-15 meters away. He took a brilliant catch after covering the area. His catch is being praised a lot on social media.
Watch the video of Shubman Gill’s catch here
,@ShubmanGill takes a stunner.pic.twitter.com/MOMpdHi7ws
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Talking about the match, at present Ollie Popp and Jack Crawley are batting for England and the team score is 91/1. In such a situation, if England now wants to score a big score in the first innings, then both these batsmen will have to play big innings from here.
Playing XI of both the teams for the fifth test match
England’s playing eleven- Zak Crawley, Ben Duckett, Ollie Pope, Joe Root, Jonny Bairstow, Ben Stokes (c), Ben Foakes (wk), Tom Hartley, Mark Wood, James Anderson and Shoaib Bashir.
India’s playing eleven: Yashasvi Jaiswal, Rohit Sharma (captain), Shubman Gill, Devdutt Padikkal, Ravindra Jadeja, Sarfaraz Khan, Dhruv Jurel (wicketkeeper), Ravichandran Ashwin, Kuldeep Yadav, Mohammed Siraj, Jasprit Bumrah.