England v India – 4th Test – 2nd Day’s Summary
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England won the toss and elected to bat
After having a regretful first day of the fourth Test against England at Kennington Oval, London, India were in for another beating on the second day as they were left wounded by some awesome batting from the hosts who without a hint of remorse clobbered
their way to dominance in the Test series finale.
Starting the day’s proceedings, the English openers http://www.senore.com/Cricket/I-Sharma-c1566
dismissed the dangerous batsman after an edge was taken by http://www.senore.com/Cricket/V-Sehwag-c2739 at first slip. Cook walked back to the pavilion after scoring 34 runs off 87 deliveries.
It was then http://www.senore.com/Cricket/IR-Bell-c1597, who came at number three to provide his skipper Strauss with the much needed assistance as both the batsmen forged a commendable resistance against the Indians who were bowling a bit better than the first day.
However, the batsmen quite tentatively left the dangerous balls and smacked the bad ones to the boundaries, frustrating the opposition.
India then struck in the 38th over by dismissing the England captain Strauss, who after playing a superb knock of 40 runs off 106 deliveries was caught behind by the Indian wicketkeeper/skipper http://www.senore.com/Cricket/S-Sreesanth-c2398.
At the time of this wicket, the English had rallied 97 runs on the board for the loss of two wickets.
The sight of Strauss walking off the field gave the Indians a glimmer of hope to creep back in the game, however, worse was yet to come as they had no idea that England’s bad boy http://www.senore.com/Cricket/KP-Pietersen-c1806 was in a mood for a big innings.
Bell and KP forged a defiant stand against the Indian bowlers by not permitting them to make anymore breakthroughs as the two phenomenal batsmen ripped the opposition apart by playing sensible shots all over the park.
India clearly had no answer to the way the batsmen were getting away with runs as bowlers kept on failing to restrict the batting onslaught.
Bell clicked just in the right match as he played exceptionally well leaving the Indians in complete disarray. While Pietersen showed good form by choosing mature shot selection.
Both batsmen completed their centuries in a befitting manner by taking the game right out of the grasp of the Indians and just like the second Test at Trent Bridge, Nottingham, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/India-c750 failed to capitalize on its strong position and let England comeback in
the match.
The duo of KP and Bell posted 350 runs in the third wicket partnership helping the side post a tally beyond four hundred.
After playing a charismatic innings of 175 runs off 232 deliveries Pietersen walked off the field after being caught and bowled by http://www.senore.com/Cricket/SK-Raina-c2539.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/JM-Anderson-c1705 on three runs.
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