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Tuesday, Jun 17, 2025
It is the first time England have been bowled out before lunch at Lord's on the opening morning and their lowest Test innings at home since 1997 against Australia.
The long-awaited Championship, involving the top nine Test nations competing in a league across two years, has been designed to give more meaning to Test series.
Battle commences at Edgbaston on Thursday and the last time Australia won there was the opening match of the 2001 series which they ended up dominating 4-1.
Kumble feels the present Indian team can win Tests abroad too.
After safely negotiating the South African pacers early on in the session, both Rohit (52 not out off 84 balls) and Agarwal (39 not out off 96 balls) looked comfortable at the crease, playing out 30 overs.
Revelling in his new role, Rohit effortlessly walked his way into the record books as he scored 127 off 149 balls, following his 176, to become the first ever batsman in the history of Test cricket to score two hundreds in his opening 'debut'.
There are 40 points on offer and a 3-0 series whitewash, both of which India would be targetting against the hapless visitors.
If the Proteas dominated the first two sessions of the day, the last session was clearly shared as the spin duo of Ashwin and Ravindra Jadeja clawed their way back.
Jadeja achieved the feat ahead of Sri Lanka's Rangana Herath (47 matches) and Australia's Mitchell Johnson (49).
Blaming Cricket South Africa, the visiting skipper further said the tour exposed the lack of planning as they did not think for future after greats like Hashim Amla and AB de Villiers retired.
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