India won the toss and elected to bat first in the second Test at Visakhapatnam against England.
KL Rahul was pulled out of an ongoing Ranji Trophy match against Rajasthan to be brought into the Indian team.
Cheteshwar Pujara's hundred finally came after tea. The special knock on a special occasion was bound to get some special comments from the fans.
The crowd at Rajkot roared loudly in joy when Cheteshwar Pujara was given not out.
England used DRS when they should not have and did not use it where they should have. With DRS coming into the act, there will be surely some increase in the excitement in the game.
After whitewashing New Zealand in the previous Test series at home, India will look forward for the same fate against England as well and aim to remain at the top of ICC Test rankings.
Gary Ballance, after a promising start to his Test career, has been fading away with time.
Ahead of England's series against India, questions over Kevin Pietersen's return came into act recently which got an excellent reply from former England batsman David Gower.
In 2012, England had spinners like Graeme Swann and Monty Panesar, who exploited the conditions in their favour and Ravichandran Ashwin, at that time, was not such brutal with his bowling as compared to now.
Rohit Sharma might have to go through surgery on his right thigh after being hit in the 5th ODI against New Zealand.