Pant and Gill take different routes up the spin hill

Two straight drives and an edge accounted for three boundaries in the first over of the day for Rishabh Pant, off the bowling of Ajaz Patel. The spinner would go on to pick a five-fer but within moments of the start of the day, Pant had already left his stamp. He got to a 36-ball half-century with 49 of those runs coming in that first hour of play.

When Ajaz corrected his lengths, Pant would get down to lap it dangerously from the stumps. This was followed by a couple of sixes down the ground and a reverse-swept boundary. In between Shubman Gill lofted Patel inside out over cover for a boundary. Between them the duo hit the lead left-arm spinner for 40 runs in his first five overs, forcing Tom Latham to opt for a bowling change.

In the previous evening, when India had