England v India: 2nd Test Match – In-depth Analysis Part 4
India required 478 runs for victory against England in the second of the four-match Test series at the Trent Bridge, Nottingham in England.
However, the visitors failed miserably with the bat and were bowled out for 158 runs in their second outing on Monday, August 1, 2011. Only three batsmen in the team managed to reach double figures with the highest score coming from http://www.senore.com/Cricket/SR-Tendulkar-c2556, who
collected 56 runs.
The pitch did have some assistance for the bowlers throughout the match, but it had eased out for the batsmen on the fourth day’s play. The only concern for the batsmen was to cope up with the new ball and then it was easy to bat.
It was difficult for India to survive five sessions of play, but being the number one Test team in the world, they would have fancied their chances of winning the match.
However, the start to the visitors’ innings was not a good one, losing their in-form batsman http://www.senore.com/Cricket/R-Dravid-c2229 early. The veteran batsman has scored centuries in both matches played so far, but has ended up being on the losing side twice in the series. He got
out after adding just 6 runs to the total.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/JM-Anderson-c1705. The ball pitched within the stumps and moved away off the seam, cannoning into the off-stump.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Abhinav-Mukund-c41758 seemed not to be worried about scoring runs, as he limped to 3 runs off 41 deliveries. The left-handed opener failed to last longer and was the third wicket to fall in the Indian innings.
Next to go was http://www.senore.com/Cricket/SK-Raina-c2539 who top edged a bouncer from Tim Bresnan straight to the hands of the fielder placed at deep fine-leg. The flamboyant left-handed player managed just 1 run in his unimpressive outing.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Yuvraj-Singh-c98364, who had scored a solid half-century in the first innings, struggled to score runs this time around. He was given some tough time by the English bowlers, who troubled the batsman with short pitch stuff.
Singh finally got out after a struggling knock of 8 runs from 32 balls. He was followed by the team’s skipper http://www.senore.com/Cricket/MS-Dhoni-c2028, who was caught plumb in front of the stumps off the very first delivery faced.
The Men in Blue were 55/6 at that stage of the innings and looked to be bowled out within 100 runs. However, Tendulkar got some support from http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Harbhajan-Singh-c61453, as the pair put together a 52-run stand for the seventh wicket partnership.
The Master Blaster failed to last long and was dismissed after adding 56 runs to the total with the help of eight boundaries.
Harbhajan managed to score some runs this time around, collecting 46 towards the end of the innings. He was the eight batsmen to fall in the innings.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/P-Kumar-c2143 collected a run-a-ball 25 runs with the help of five boundaries, but was undone by a superb yorker from Anderson.
The last wicket to fall in the innings was http://www.senore.com/Cricket/India-c750 were all out for 158 runs, losing the match by a massive margin of 319 runs.
England’s http://www.senore.com/Cricket/TT-Bresnan-c2711 did a fabulous job, picking up five wickets in the innings.
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