India, July 6 -- India were in a commanding position at Tea in Birmingham on the fourth evening of the second Test against England after captain Shubman Gill smashed a second consecutive hundred in the match. However, there was an air of disappointment among the experts on how Ravindra Jadeja went about his innings in the second session, scoring just 25 off 68, at a time when India are desperate to level the series at Edgbaston, having earlier lost the opener in Leeds last month.

As Gill played second fiddle with his century, Rishabh Pant raised the tempo with his outrageous half-century knock that took India to 304 for four at the stroke of tea, leading by 484 runs in the match. But Jadeja, who was promoted up the order in the second in...