LIVE – England post 457 runs on the second day of the Oval Test – Cricket News Update
At the close of the second day of the fourth Test at the Oval, the hosts England posted a humongous tally of 457 runs on the board for the loss of three wickets with Ian Bell on 181 runs and night-watchman http://www.senore.com/Cricket/JM-Anderson-c1705 on three off 18 deliveries.
Earlier, the English openers started the day’s proceedings in a bid to increase their overnight tally of 75 runs without any loss. http://www.senore.com/Cricket/AN-Cook-c1026 attempted for forge a dangerous partnership, however, the Indians managed to make a breakthrough
on the penultimate delivery of the 27th over when Cook was caught by http://www.senore.com/Cricket/England-c56013 had not added a run to their tally as Cook walked back to the pavilion after having
scored 34 runs off 87 deliveries.
However, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/IR-Bell-c1597 on his arrival managed to control things in the middle as he tried to form a formidable innings with the skipper.
India then grabbed the wicket of Strauss, who after playing a knock of 40 runs off 106 deliveries was caught behind by wicketkeeper http://www.senore.com/Cricket/S-Sreesanth-c2398. At the time of his departure the home side had managed to
put 97 runs on the board for the loss of two wickets.
At this point in time, India felt they were creeping back in the game; however, the arrival of England’s outstanding all-rounder http://www.senore.com/Cricket/KP-Pietersen-c1806 crushed India’s hopes of making a comeback as the 31-year-old all-rounder forged a spectacular partnership with
Bell.
The two batsmen took the air out of the Indian bowling attack as they played superbly by disallowing India to make a breakthrough.
The way the two batsmen were batting, it was imminent that England were going to end up putting a mammoth total on the board if India failed to halt the duo of Bell and KP.
Both batsmen managed to score their well deserved centuries as they left the Indian bowlers dejected. The batsmen posted 350 runs in the third wicket partnership as they took the game away from the tourists. The partnership was finally broken when KP after
playing an astounding innings of 175 runs was caught and bowled by http://www.senore.com/Cricket/SK-Raina-c2539 in the 117th over.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/India-c750 now have a daunting task to halt the hosts on the third day from posting a score which might be too big for India to overcome.
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