RANCHI, FEB 24   :     Carrying on with his Jazball cricket, Yashasvi Jaiswal notched up his third Test fifty before Shoaib Bashir picked three top wickets in a jiffy to reduce India to 131/4 at Tea on Day 2 here on Saturday.

India trail England by 222 in the first innings. At the end of the second session, Jaiswal and Sarfaraz Khan were batting on 54 and 1, respectively.

England won the second session with Bashir coming to the party on a track assisting spinners. He trapped Shubman Gill (38) leg before and dismissed Rajat Patidar (17) similarly before getting last centurion Ravindra Jadeja (12) bat-pad catch at the forward short leg.

From 86/1, India slipped to 131/4, putting the onus on Sarfaraz and Jaiswal to bat very well in the last session of the day.

Jaiswal has looked solid and had cracked only a six, and all five boundaries had come in the first session. He was lucky to savour a narrow escape when he edged Ollie Robinson, which fell short of keeper Ben Foakes.

Foakes felt he cleanly fetched the ball but TV replays showed the ball bounced before it went into the gloves.

After executing cuts and guiding Ollie Robinson for back-to-back boundaries, Gill was trapped lbw of Bashir’s ball which turned sharply to beat the inside edge, before stitching an 82-run partnership with Jaiswal.

Patidar showed promise with his flicks and punches rooted to the crease, but succumbed to Bashir, getting him leg before. The DRS showed the ball hitting leg-stump, with the impact on the umpire’s call.

Jadeja smacked two consecutive sixes off Tom Hartley before surviving an lbw shout via DRS in the previous ball, but Bashir had the allrounder with his delivery bouncing to hit his bat and the ball ballooning to Ollie Pope at short leg, giving him his third wicket.

Brief Scores: England 353 in 104.5 overs (Joe Root 122 not out, Ollie Robinson 58; Ravindra Jadeja 4-67, Akash Deep 3-83) lead India 131/4 in 38 overs (Yashasvi Jaiswal 54 not out; Shoaib Bashir 3-32) by 222 runs(UNI)