India bowled out for just 191 despite Shardul’s cameo

A Delhi court on Thursday remanded Hindu Raksha Dal chief Raksha Dal Bhupinder Tomar, alias Pinki Chaudhary, to 14-day judicial custody in connection with the Jantar Mantar hate sloganeering case. The development comes days after Chaudhary surrendered to the police on Tuesday, ending a three-week manhunt after the Jantar Mantar incident. Chaudhary has been accused of raising communal slogans against Muslims at a rally at Jantar Mantar on August 8. Metropolitan magistrate Prayank Nayak on Thursday sent Chaudhary to jail after Delhi Police produced him before the court on expiry of his one day-custodial interrogation. Police told the court that the accused was not required for further interrogation and requested that he be sent to jail.

India were bowled out for 191 midway through the third session of the fourth Test against England on Thursday, the team’s latest meager total only lifted by a smashing counterattacking innings by tailender Shardul Thakur. Shardul scored the fastest Test fifty ever made at the Oval — in just 31 balls — and had hit seven fours and three sixes by the time he was trapped lbw for 57 to become the recalled Chris Woakes’ fourth wicket of Day 1. Jasprit Bumrah was run out next ball, having not even faced a delivery, before Umesh Yadav was caught behind three balls later for 10. Rishabh Pant was caught in the deep, on the slog, for 9 for the first wicket after tea to leave India 127-7. Thakur’s half-century at least put India into a competitive position, unlike in the third Test when the tourists were dismissed for 78 and ended up losing inside four days at Headingley. In response, England were 53 for 3 at the end of the day’s play.