0n most nights before a game Yashasvi Jaiswal listens to Celine Dion’s chartbuster soundtrack from the movie Titanic, ‘Every Night in My Dreams.’
Whether he stuck to his tradition the night before the Visakhapatnam Test or not, he certainly composed a knock straight out of his dreams. It was near flawless and pivotal to his team’s cause, helping them from crashing onto an iceberg and drowning into the seas, steering them to relatively safe shores with an undefeated 179, more than half of India’s first-day total.
It is his most influential knock yet. The pitch was flat, but the slowness made stroke-making difficult. England’s spinners were callow; one was a debutant, the other two had a combined experience of three games, but they bowled diligently.
to keep India’s progress under check. The total of 336 for six is not formidable on this pitch, but the reason India reached this far only due to the 22-year-old’s application and hunger for runs. Every partner of his got a start, but departed without even a forty. The second highest score was Shubman Gill’s 34.
But Jaiswal waged a lonely battle, repelling the waves and playing his strokes, ensuring that India remained in the game, and in the series, having lost the first TestJaiswal squandered a hundred-scoring chance.
Until he remained in the crease, Jais-ball seemed to have an edge over Bazball. With his aggressive white-ball influenced approach, the left-hander had all the answers to what England threw at him. But he spilled his wicket on 80 runs, rather than kicking on to score a hundred and taking the game away from England.