England v India - 2nd Test - England wins the second Test at Trent Bridge - Cricket News Update
England overpowered the World Champions, India, in the second Test of the 4-match Series, by a mountainous margin of 319 runs, at Trent Bridge, on August 1, 2011. The match started on July 29, 2011, and lasted for four days as India were crushed by the Poms
in their second innings.
India, after winning the toss, opted to put the home side into bat. England started their first innings unconvincingly as they lost their first wicket on just seven runs on the board which put the hosts under pressure. The pressure mounted the Poms as they
lost their second and vital wicket of http://www.senore.com/Cricket/IJL-Trott-c1576, on just 23 runs.
However, the situation was expertly handled by the Skipper, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/KP-Pietersen-c1806, as they built a good partnership of 50 runs, which was at that time, enough for the Poms to come back on track.
However, the upcoming batsmen could not maintain the momentum provided by that partnership and kept on losing wickets at regular intervals. At one stage India had taken eight English wickets for just 124 and it looked as if India would wrap up the Poms’
innings within 150.
However, the emerging English all-rounder http://www.senore.com/Cricket/SCJ-Broad-c2465, stood tall in front of the Indian pacers and smashed a tremendous half-century, which facilitated the Poms to reach a respectable first innings total of 221 runs in their first innings. Broad scored
64 runs on just 66 balls and whacked nine boundaries.
In response to Poms’ first innings total, India started their innings awfully as they lost their first wicket on the first ball, leaving the World Champions under immense pressure, but the one-down batsman http://www.senore.com/Cricket/R-Dravid-c2229 “The Wall” coped up with the pressure
excellently.
He was well supported by the elegant http://www.senore.com/Cricket/VVS-Laxman-c2772, as the duo built a solid partnership of 93 runs and provided India a strong platform. Dravid accomplished his hundred and after scoring 117 runs, he went back to the pavilion. However, the remaining batsmen
could not make use of that sturdy platform and did not show any resistance to Poms’ seamers, except http://www.senore.com/Cricket/India-c750 to score 288 and take a healthy lead of 67 runs.
In the second innings, the English middle-order crushed the Indian bowlers, hitting them all around. Four half-centuries and a superb hundred by http://www.senore.com/Cricket/England-c56013 scored 544 runs all out in their second innings and
set a huge target of 478 runs for the World Champions to win the Test match.
The Indian batting scrambled in their second innings; only the Master Blaster, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/SR-Tendulkar-c2556, could reach to his fifty and went back to the pavilion after scoring 56. None of the remaining Indian batsmen could cope up with the pressure exerted by the
English seamers, and India were bundled up at just 158 runs and lost the match by a huge margin of 319 runs.
Stuart Broad was declared Man of the Match for his superb all-rounder performance. He had bagged a hat trick in the first innings and also made a fifty in the same innings. In total, he took eight wickets and scored 108 runs in the match.
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