There was some reverse in a peach of a delivery that got Joe Root but that didn't really sum up England's misery. Jonny Bairstow probably walked into the trap of edging a wide, length ball after staying inside the line of inswingers for too long. Ben Stokes might have a grouse with the inconsistent bounce but it's one of those subcontinent things you need to accept and move on. But the ball that really took Ollie Pope, England and for that matter probably the entire cricket metaverse by surprise was a booming, curving in, quickerthrough-the air yorker that uprooted his stumps and snapped the visitors' stranglehold on this Test match.
That delivery told us that in the world of Jasprit Bumrah, anything is possible.
Everything was going according to plan for England till Bumrah happened to them as they folded for 253 before Yashasvi Jaiswal and Rohit Sharma took India to 28/0, consolidating the lead to 171 at stumps on Day 2.
This after England were cruising with the bat, as it should have been on an easy pitch, having dismissed India for 396.
In the morning, James Anderson picked up from where he had left earlier, keeping a stranglehold on the runs and asking questions of Ravichandran Ashwin and Jaiswal.
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