England take on India despite Jaiswal's century

Second Test, Visakhapatnam (First day in five): India 336-6: Jaiswal 179*; Ahmed 2-61, Bashir 2-100England: Yet to beatScorecard

Opener Jaiswal batted throughout the day to his unbeaten 179, leading the home team to 336-6.

The southpaw's shot prevented the India, trailing 1-0 after losing a thrilling first Test, having completely squandered their advantage of winning the toss and batting first on a good delivery.

Jaiswal has shared three separate 50-over partnerships, but his teammates have missed starts. The six men dismissed were all absent between the ages of 14 and 34.

Shaib Bashir, the 20-year-old on debut, was the best of England's four spinners and picked up his first Test wicket when Rohit Sharma was caught behind by a leg-slip.

James Anderson, now entering his 22nd consecutive year as a Test cricketer, bowled brilliantly as a single seamer and took the wicket of Shubman Gill.

Bashir arrived at the end of the day for his second, making Axar Patel catch at point, then Rehan Ahmed does the same with KS Bharat to leave England with a real hope of limiting India to something manageable.

England fight all day in the dirt

If England's victory in Hyderabad was remarkable, so this long field day was more typical of a tour of India. For the tourists, taking six wickets may mean they had the upper hand.

Bar Anderson, This English attack is very inexperienced. It was only the second time in Test history that England had two bowlers - Ahmed and Bashir - under the age of 21.

And yet, England stuck to their task. There were occasional bad balls and errors in the field, but it speaks volumes about their mindset that they managed to suppress at the other end, while Jaiswal compiled his masterful knock.

Perhaps aware of the unnecessary manner in which they batted in the first innings in Hyderabad, India, he managed ...