India comes under fire as Dravid makes his exit: Cricket News Update
His supporters looked on as veteran http://www.senore.com/Cricket/England-c56013 and India at Lords on Monday, 25 July 2011. The player exited the crease after poking
an edge off James Anderson’s well pitched delivery, landing the ball straight in wicketkeeper, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/JM-Anderson-c1705 Prior’s gloves.
The loss came as a surprise for Dravid who walked off much disappointed from himself, after delivering an impressive run with the bat during his team’s first innings. The player retained his stumps with a notable score of 103 runs off 344 balls by the close
of http://www.senore.com/Cricket/India-c750’s first session.
As for the for India’s following procession, taking on a massive 458 runs chase offered by the hosts, the team took off with opening batsmen, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Abhinav-Mukund-c41758 and Dravid on the fixture’s 4th day.
Offering a steady start to the side, the Indian duo took on some safe batting, adding fair sums to the total. However, the pair was finally parted in the 9th over of the innings as Mukund fell to the first English blow laid by spearhead Stuart
Broad.
Mukund served 38 minutes of play at the crease after being bowled out off Broad’s delivery at a sluggish total of 12 runs.
Hoping to recover from the early loss, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/VVS-Laxman-c2772 came in as the one down player to replace Mukund on the crease.
Laxman, coupled with Dravid, took on some defensive batting, wrapping up the day after accumulating a total of 80 runs for the side from a total of 27 overs.
As for the final day, the fixture took to the field after the pair resumed their innings through some slow runs in the opening minutes of the game.
With Anderson complemented by spearhead Chris Tremlett on the bowling attack, the English offered some resistance to the Indian batsmen, forcing the players into earning some slow runs for the side.
As the game went on, opportunity came for the English in the 32nd over of the day after Dravid edged Tremlett’s delivery, producing an easy catch at short leg for http://www.senore.com/Cricket/IR-Bell-c1597. The much disappointed Tremlett looked on as the ball left the fielder’s
hand missing out on the wicket.
However, with Anderson taking off with the 35th over, the English managed to stand out successful after the bowler secured Dravid’s wicket, which came through a yet again produced edge, finishing off the Indian’s innings in Prior’s gloves. The
much reliant Dravid’s run at the pitch came to a close after the player departed with 36 runs adding to his team. The much reliant Dravid walk off the crease after scoring 36 runs for his side.
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