Tea: Jaiswal smashes his way to 7th ton, Sudharsan on 71 as India score 220/1
New Delhi (PTI): Yashasvi Jaiswal was class personified en route his seventh hundred while Sai Sudharsan also displayed his potential as India clobbered the West Indies attack to reach a comfortable 220 for 1 at tea on the opening day of the second Test here on Friday.
Jaiswal, who missed out on a big score during the first Test, was in no mood to let go the second opportunity with some eye-catching strokes as he remained unbeaten on 111 off 162 balls with 16 boundaries to his credit.
Sudharsan was undefeated on 71 off 132 balls with 11 boundaries in a second wicket stand of 162 runs. Kotla is a happy hunting ground for the youngster and he had scored a hundred for Tamil Nadu when he played here the last time.
KL Rahul (38) would rue his luck. There was just one delivery from left-arm spinner Jomel Warrican that turned and bounced at the same time and beat the outside edge of his bat.
In the session between lunch and tea, India plundered as many as 126 runs to leave the West Indies bowling in complete tatters.
The spinners erred in length and the pacers neither got length nor the lines correct with too many easy boundary balls.
After scoring 94 in the first session, the two left-handers were aggressive during the first hour post lunch and boundaries just flowed from their willows.
At one point, they were scoring at nearly six an over before slowing down marginally in the second hour.
The only time in the session when West Indies got anywhere close to getting a second wicket was when Justin Greaves hurried Sudharsan with a climbing ball as he closed his bat face.
The leading edge flew at a comfortable height towards short mid-wicket where Warrican grassed a dolly.
The best shot of the second session was a fierce cut by Sudharsan. He landed his bat like a sledgehammer on a widish delivery from Seals and it raced to the point boundary.
Under pressure after the Ahmedabad Test, Sudharsan didn't look in any sort of trouble against pacers or spinners as the track remained conducive for batting. It also didn't help that the visiting attack was pedestrian as usual.
Jaiswal, who was cautious and aggressive in equal measure during the first session, showed his aggressive streak after lunch.
Both left-arm spinners -- Warrican and Khary Pierre -- bowled short balls and batters got enough time to rock on the back-foot and play on either side of the ground.
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Screenwriter Salim Khan on ventilator support and stable, say doctors
Mumbai (PTI): Veteran screenwriter Salim Khan suffered a brain haemorrhage which has been tackled, is on ventilator support as a safeguard and stable, doctors treating him said on Wednesday, a day after he was admitted to the Lilavati Hospital here.
The 90-year-old, one half of the celebrated Salim-Javed duo which scripted films such as "Sholay", "Deewar" and "Don" with Javed Akhtar, is in the ICU and recovery might take some time given his age.
"His blood pressure was high for which we treated him and we had to put him on a ventilator because we wanted to do certain investigations. Now the ventilator was put as a safeguard so that his situation doesn't get worse. So it is not that he is critical," Dr Jalil Parkar told reporters.
"We did the investigations that were required and today we have done a small procedure on him, I will not go into the details. The procedure done is called DSA (digital subtraction angiography). The procedure has been accomplished, he is fine and stable and shifted back to ICU. By tomorrow, we hope to get him off the ventilator. All in all, he is doing quite well," he added.
Asked whether he suffered a brain haemorrhage, the doctor said, "Unko thoda haemorrhage hua tha, which we’ve tackled. No surgery is required.
As concern over Khan's health mounted, his children, including superstar Salman Khan and Arbaaz Khan, daughter Alvira, and sons-in-law Atul Agnihotri and Aayush Sharma, have been seen outside the hospital along with other well-wishers. His long-time partner Akhtar was also seen coming out of the hospital.
Khan, a household name in the 70s and 80s, turned 90 on November 24 last year. It was the day Dharmendra, the star of many of his films, including "Sholay", "Seeta aur Geeta" and "Yaadon Ki Baraat", passed away.
Hailing from an affluent family in Indore, Khan arrived in Mumbai in his 20s with dreams of stardom. He was good looking and confident he would make a mark in the industry as an actor. But that did not happen. And then, after struggling for close to a decade and getting confined to small roles in films, he changed lanes.
He worked as an assistant to Abrar Alvi and soon met Akhtar to form one of Hindi cinema's most formidable writing partnerships. They worked together on two dozen movies with most of them achieving blockbuster status.
Other than "Sholay", "Deewar" and "Don", Khan and Akhtar also penned "Trishul", "Zanjeer", "Seeta Aur Geeta", "Haathi Mere Saathi", "Yaadon Ki Baarat" and "Mr India".
