Gill ton take India to 310 for 5 on Day 1
Birmingham: Skipper Shubman Gill scored a classy century while Yashasvi Jaiswal missed out on a deserving ton as India battled hard to reach 310 for 5 against England on the opening day of the second Test here on Wednesday. This was Gill's (114 batting, 216 balls) second successive hundred in the series after scoring 147 at Headingley. He is one of those rare Indian skippers to have scored back-to-back centuries in his first two Tests as captain. His century came off 199 deliveries. In all, Gill hit 12 fours.
While Jaiswal once again gave India a solid start with an aggressive 87, laced with 13 boundaries, Gill showed a lot of composure and discretion in shot selection to score his seventh Test century.
Karun Nair (31) and Rishabh Pant (25) threw away their wickets after getting starts while Nitish Reddy (1) was completely clueless when a Chris Woakes nip-backer jagged back sharply.
India were in a spot of bother at 211 for five but veteran Ravindra Jadeja once again showed his true value as a batter in SENA countries with an unbeaten 41 off 67 balls. The duo added 99 runs for the unbroken sixth-wicket stand.
For England, Chris Woakes took two wickets while skipper Ben Stokes, Brydon Carse and Shoaib Bashir took a wicket apiece.
Brief Scores: India 310/5 in 85 overs (Shubman Gill 114 batting, Yashasvi Jaiswal 87, Ravindra Jadeja 41 batting; Chris Woakes 2/59).
PM Hasina gets six-month jail term
Dhaka: Bangladesh’s deposed Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was on Wednesday sentenced to six months in prison in a contempt of court case by the International Crimes Tribunal, while it now tries her on a major charge of committing crimes against humanity in absentia. A three-member panel of the tribunal-1 (ICT), led by Justice Golam Mortuza Mozumder, simultaneously sentenced to two months a fugitive leader of the Bangladesh Chhatra League, Shakil Akanda Bulbul, in the same case.
It marks the first time that 77-year-old Hasina has been sentenced in any case since she left office in August last year. “According to the verdict, the sentence will come into effect from the day of her arrest or surrender before the court,” chief prosecutor Mohammad Tajul Islam told reporters after the verdict was handed down.
A State-appointed lawyer is defending Hasina, now staying in India, in the tribunal which earlier declared her a “fugitive” while her trial was opened on Monday initially over the murder of student protester Abu Sayeed.
Sayeed’s killing in northwestern Rangpur University during a demonstration escalated a nationwide violent protest that ultimately ousted her nearly 16-year-long regime on August 5 last year, when she secretly left the country on a military aircraft.
Three days later Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus, 85, flew from Paris to take charge of an interim government as the nominee of the protesters who were waging the movement under a platform called Students against Discrimination (SAD).