Stuart Broad has delivered the most expensive over in Test cricket history as Jasprit Bumrah starred with bat and ball on a rain-affected day at Edgbaston
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ScorecardBumrah dominates day two as Broad bags unwanted record
Ravindra Jadeja scored his first overseas Test hundred and Stuart Broad bowled the most expensive over in Test cricket history, but the second day of the series-deciding Test between England and India was Jasprit Bumrah's.
The stand-in skipper improbably broke the record for the most runs scored by a batsman in an over, smiting 29 off a Broad over that went for 35 – including five wides and a no ball.
That lifted India, who had been 5-98, to 416.
Image Id: 693C8155038A4C01ABC1C1DD9B6D35FF Image Caption: Bumrah hit four fours and two sixes during Broad's horror over // GettyBumrah then took 3-35 as England closed on 5-84, 332 runs behind and needing 133 more to avoid the follow-on.
England need to win the Test to level a series delayed after cases of COVID-19 in the Indian camp before the fifth Test last September.
Resuming on 7-338, India added a rapid 78 runs in an hour with Jadeja reaching a well-deserved century before getting out for 104 trying to hit James Anderson.
Image Id: 3026F13931754DAF9C329B1A7FBF9FCC Image Caption: Broad claimed Test cricket's unwanted record // GettyBroad, meanwhile, had taken his 550th Test wicket – and first of the innings – when Mohammed Shami was caught by Jack Leach after a sustained period of short-pitched bowling.
He maintained that policy against Bumrah but was hooked, slashed and edged for fours and sixes while a wide bounced over the wicketkeeper for a five.
Broad's new unwanted record came 15 years after he conceded 36 runs in an over against India's Yuvraj Singh in a T20 World Cup match.
Anderson ended the fun, having Mohammed Siraj caught by Broad to finish with 5-60, his 32nd five-wicket haul in Tests.
Image Id: 09C94DEE829047DAA7184D95B28216E0 Image Caption: Bumrah then skittled England's top-order with 3-35 // GettyHaving swapped bat for ball Bumrah wrecked England's upper order batting. He bowled Alex Lees (6) and had Zak Crawley (9) and Ollie Pope (10) caught in the slips.
After a lengthy rain delay (there were only 38.5 overs played in the day) Siraj earned India the prized wicket of Joe Root as he edged a rising delivery to wicketkeeper Rishabh Pant for 31.
Jack Leach walked out as the nightwatchman but lasted only five balls before he was also caught behind by Pant off Shami.
The close came soon after with Jonny Bairstow unbeaten on 12 and skipper Ben Stokes yet to open his account.