India, June 21 -- Shubman Gill and Rishabh Pant's centuries have put India in the driver's seat against England in the first Test of the five-match series at Headingley, Leeds. The duo put on 209 runs for the fourth wicket as Gill and Pant piled the misery on the England attack of Ben Stokes, Brydon Carse, Shoaib Bashir, Josh Tongue and Chris Woakes. Both Gill and Jaiswal mixed caution with aggression as they took a calculated approach to take the hosts down.

Former India batter Sachin Tendulkar, the leading run-scorer in international cricket, had a few interesting observations to make about the duo's approach in the first Test. He also lauded how both the batters kept playing "mind games" by conversing in Hindi in the middle.

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