Jasprit Bumrah strikes twice in two balls to put England in backfoot

Jasprit Bumrah gave India the breakthrough to put England in the backfoot after India posted a total of 229 after 50 overs on Sunday at the Ekana Stadium in Lucknow. Bumrah struck twice in back-to-back balls in the 5th over of the first powerplay dismissing Joe Root and Dawid Malan. This was the third time Jasprit dismissed Joe Root for a golden duck in international cricket.

"What a start! Under the lights maybe the ball is doing a bit but this is high-quality bowling from Bumrah and Shami. But what a strange innings from Stokes!" cricket commentator Harsha Bhogle wrote on X formerly known as Twitter.

Skipper Rohit Sharma's half-century and Suryakumar Yadav's (49) useful contribution helped India labour to 229 for nine in their World Cup match against England here on Sunday. Opener Rohit scored a 101ball 87, while Surya struck a 47ball 49. Shubman Gill (9), Virat Kohli (0), Shreyas Iyer (4) and KL Rahul (39) failed to score big.

English bowlers put Indian batters under pressure very early in the match as opener Shubman Gill and star batter Virat Kohli were dismissed cheaply inside the powerplay, While Gill was clean bowled by Chris Woakes on 9, Kohli handed and easy catch to Ben Stokes off the bowling of David Willey and walked back without opening his account. It was for the first time in his career that Kohli was dismissed on duck in a World Cup match.

Rohit Sharma, captaining India for the 100th time in an international match, came up with a significant knock of 87 in 100 balls before he was tempted to come out of the crease and play a shot in the air against Adil Rashid only to get caught by Liam Livingstone in the deep.

In the fag end of the innings, tailenders Jasprit Bumrah and Kuldeep Yadav put together a partnership of 21 runs. Kuldeep made 9 off 13 balls and Bumrah scored 16 in 25 balls before he got run-out in an attempt to sneak in a single on the last ball of the innings.

India's batting performance against England meant that India remains the only team to have not lost all its 10 wickets even once. Every other team except for India had lost all its 10 wickets at least once.