India v England – England tour of http://www.senore.com/Cricket/I-Sharma-c1566
England suffered two significant blows as India’s lone pacer Ishant Sharma removed the Poms’ openers early on the first day of their final Test match, currently being played at http://www.senore.com/Cricket/KP-Pietersen-c1806 attempted to build for the team, and got England up to 61 for 2 by lunch.
With the series at 2-1, both teams went into the match with a considerable amount of pressure on their shoulders. For India, the Nagpur Test presents a final opportunity to level the series, while England are facing the prospect of making history and ending a roughly 28-year-long drought, having won their last extended-overs series against India in India during 1984.
A dry, white, and deeply cracked surface greeted both teams at Nagpur, with experts predicting that the pitch will begin to offer turn from the first day of play. England skipper http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Samit-Patel-c2426.
The host team also tinkered considerably with their line-up, and opted to play four spinners. With http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Piyush-c82317 Chawla. Ishant Sharma, meanwhile, featured as the lone specialist seamer in the XI.
Alastair Cook and Nick Compton opened the innings for their side, but they had barely settled down at the crease when Sharma (8-3-9-2) delivered his first blow. The fifth over resulted in Compton caught out by Dhoni off Sharma after a mere 3-run contribuhttp://www.senore.com/Cricket/Thomas-George-Burrows-c93472ion, and England were one batsman down.
However, Sharma wasn’t done with England yet, and the 11th over saw a massive appeal after he appeared to have trapped Cook lbw.
Replays indicated that the ball did not appear to be going on to hit the stumps. However, according to on-field umpire http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Handunnettige-Deepthi-Priyantha-Kumar-Dharmasena-c61394, the questionable lbw decision held, and Cook found himself walking back to the pavilion after a mere 1-run contribution off 28 balls – anticlimactic, following his heroics in this series so far, with a century in each of the past three Tests.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/IJL-Trott-c1576 (28*) and Kevin Pietersen (28*) then proceeded to begin the task of building for England after the two early losses, and their contributions got the team up to 61 for 2 by lunch.
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