Kuldeep Yadav delivered a peach delivery on Saturday to outfox and knock over Ben Foakes with a flighted ball that did not turn in India’s current second Test against England.
The event occurred on the second ball of the 39th over. Kuldeep Yadav threw the ball around the center and off-stump lines, and it drifted further away. Foakes recognized the drift but lowered his bat before his pad to cover the turn. However, the ball pitched and straightened, passing the outer edge by a hair to hit the pole.
Watch the wicket here:
Kuldeep’s last delivery was a googly, which Foakes, unlike most English batters, read from the hand and defended comfortably. He expected this one to come in but failed to see the small change from the Indian spinner.
Foakes was dismissed for 6 (10), breaking a brief partnership with skipper Ben Stokes. This was Kuldeep Yadav’s second wicket of the day. Earlier, he earned the first blood for the hosts by convincing Ben Duckett to edge one to the front short leg.
The quality of the ball to Foakes was comparable to Jasprit Bumrah’s back-to-back setups for Joe Root and Ollie Pope. The former got out, edging one away from his body, while the latter couldn’t resist a stunning middle-and-leg-stump yorker.
Kuldeep Yadav completes his three-wicket haul by dismissing Rehan Ahmed
Kuldeep Yadav dismissed the following batter, Rehan Ahmed, just a few overs later. Ahmed tried to draw a half-tracker but it went over the toe end to short covers, where Shubman Gill jumped high to catch it.
That took England to 182/7 in their pursuit of India’s first innings total of 396. With England’s batting not as deep as normal, Ben Stokes and Tom Hartley began attacking the bowlers from both ends, hitting sixes and fours to the midwicket zone.
