LIVE – 2000th Test - England v http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Z-Khan-c98379 takes Cook - Match Update
On the opening day of the first test between India and http://www.senore.com/Cricket/AN-Cook-c1026 in the opening hour of the 2000th Test match, played at Lord’s today, July 21, 2011.
Looking to defend the ball, Cook failed to connect and the delivery hit the top of his pads, where umpire, Asad Rauf, raised his finger immediately.
Cook looked good in his innings of 12 and was disappointed as he walked back to the pavilion.
The start to the match was delayed by a few minutes due to some early drizzle. However, much to the relief of fans all over, the match resumed, with both captains being gifted the 2000th Test memorabilia coins.
As the match referee tossed the coin, it was captain marvelous, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/MS-Dhoni-c2028, who won the toss and elected to field first.
The Indian skipper, in his toss interview, shared the team news where the main talking point was the exclusion of http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Yuvraj-Singh-c98364.
He believed that http://www.senore.com/Cricket/SK-Raina-c2539 has been in good form lately, while Yuvraj, still remains the key member of the squad.
The biggest news from the England camp was the inclusion of http://www.senore.com/Cricket/TT-Bresnan-c2711.
The match began with Zaheer khan bowling to Strauss, who looked cautious upfront. Though he had been amongst the top run scorers in the warm-up match against India earlier, he looked edgy this time around, perhaps due to the record, the left-armer possesses
against the English skipper.
On the other end, Dhoni opted to start with http://www.senore.com/Cricket/I-Sharma-c1566, due to his ability to extract swing.
Kumar started his spell, swinging the ball for miles; however, as he is primarily a medium-pacer, England batsmen had little difficulty in dealing him.
The first three overs went without any score. The first runs came in the fourth over, courtesy of a Cook boundary.
Strauss’ first run came in the fifth over, when he tapped one to cover and took a single.
The openers gradually gathered some pace and by the end of the 10th over, moved on to 19.
Just as it appeared that they had weathered the new ball, Zaheer struck with a delivery that had some extra bounce, trapping the England ODI captain on the pad for 12.
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