Jasprit Bumrah Consoles Gautam Gambhir After Bowlers’ Collapse in Dressing Room

Jasprit Bumrah Consoles Gautam Gambhir: Indian cricket team fast bowler Jasprit Bumrah was seen having an animated conversation with head coach Gautam Gambhir following a poor show from other Indian bowlers on Day 2 of the first Test match on Saturday. While Bumrah took all three wickets in the England innings, the other Indian bowlers struggled quite a bit.

A picture of the discussion between Gambhir and Bumrah has now gone viral on social media. The incident took place during the 40th over of the England innings when Bumrah went off the field. While Shardul was bowling out his over, the camera turned to the Indian dressing room, where Bumrah was seen making his point in an animated manner to Gambhir.

It transpired in the 40th over of England's innings when Bumrah was off the field. Shardul Thakur, India's fourth seamer, was introduced into the attack for the first time in the match. During Thakur's uneventful first over, the cameras panned to the Indian dressing room, where Bumrah was seen doing all the talking. He didn't quite seem pleased with how things were proceeding in the Test match.

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Bumrah gave India a good start by picking up a wicket in the first over of England's innings. He bowled a beautiful delivery that came in with the angle and then swung away to catch the outside edge of Zak Crawley's bat to dismiss him for 4. Bumrah then came very close to dismissing both Ben Duckket and Ollie Pope, but the luck didn't go his way. Duckett survived a close LBW appeal, and Ravindra Jadeja dropped him at gully while Pope edged a couple through the slip cordon.

A rain delay meant England's innings had a delayed start, and then they dealt with a menacing Jasprit Bumrah. But Pope and Ben Duckett added 122 runs for the second wicket to bring some normalcy into England's innings. While Duckett fell for 62, Pope went on to score his ninth Test ton, laced with 13 fours.

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Pope got the final session underway with a late cut through the gap between third slip and gully, taking him to a half-century in 64 balls. But Bumrah found success when Duckett chopped onto his stumps and fell for 62 off 94 balls. Pope got a life on 60 when he tried to steer off Bumrah, but Yashasvi Jaiswal made a mess of the catch at third slip.

Siraj bowled with much better lengths, and that resulted in him trapping Joe Root lbw for seven, only for the batter to overturn it on review. Pope continued to grow in confidence by taking boundaries off Jadeja, Prasidh, and Shardul Thakur before getting his hundred off 125 balls through an inside edge off Bumrah.

Earlier, Rishabh Pant became the third Indian batter to smash a hundred (134) in the first innings, with captain Shubman Gill's innings finally ending at 147. However, after the duo’s dismissals, India suffered a big collapse from 430 for 3 to 471 all out, losing their last seven wickets for just 41 runs.

Josh Tongue and Ben Stokes took four wickets each as England stormed back into the contest. Pope, meanwhile, scored a gritty hundred.

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