Trent Bridge Test - England v India – 2nd Day’s Recap
England 221 & 24/1 (11.0 ov) v India 288 -
England trail by 43 runs with 9 wickets remaining
After ending the first day by posting 24 runs for the loss of one wicket, India started the second day’s play in a bid to overcome the trail of 197 runs to take a lead in the match against the hosts http://www.senore.com/Cricket/England-c56013 at Trent Bridge, Nottingham.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/VVS-Laxman-c2772 put up a stiff resistance against the belligerent English bowlers and dominated the hosts in the early session of the day as the batsmen chose their shots wisely in order to keep wickets in hand.
Both batsmen left outgoing deliveries and smacked bad balls without remorse to keep the score board ticking. Strauss who might have had a goodnight’s sleep after http://www.senore.com/Cricket/JM-Anderson-c1705 grabbed an early wicket on the first delivery of the Indian innings a day before
was clearly in a spot of bother watching his bowlers look impotent in front of the Indian batsmen.
Veteran Dravid and Laxman toyed with the bowlers taking the sting out of the pace attack and managing to score runs at will.
In the 36th over of the Indian innings, the tourists suffered the loss of Laxman, who after playing a staggering innings of 54 runs fell to http://www.senore.com/Cricket/MJ-Prior-c1984.
India’s master blaster http://www.senore.com/Cricket/AJ-Strauss-c964 at first slip.
In the 51st over of the Indian innings, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Eoin-Joseph-Gerard-Morgan-c56032 off a delivery by James Anderson.
It was then India’s number one all-rounder http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Yuvraj-Singh-c98364, who forged a splendid partnership with Dravid as both batsmen smacked the English bowlers all over the park as they crafted a partnership of 128 runs.
It was during this partnership when Dravid reached his 34th Test century and leveled the tally with http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Sunil-Manohar-Gavaskar-c91863.
Meanwhile, Singh after playing an innings of 62 runs off 115 deliveries was sent back to the pavilion by Stuart Broad when the batsman edged the ball to the wicketkeeper.
Skipper, Dhoni showed rusty form with the bat as he lost his wicket after scoring five runs off nine deliveries. The batsman was caught by Anderson at second slip off a delivery by Broad. At this time India had taken a lead of 52 runs on the hosts, however,
Broad limited their hopes on increasing the lead by completing a hat-trick after grabbing the wickets of http://www.senore.com/Cricket/P-Kumar-c2143 (0).
In the next over after playing a remarkable innings of 117 runs, Dravid was caught at third man by http://www.senore.com/Cricket/AN-Cook-c1026 off the bowling of Bresnan. In the end India posted a tally of 288 runs in response to England’s 221 runs.
Later in the day, England had a bumpy start to their innings when they lost Cook early on after the batsman had scored just five runs off 11 deliveries as he was caught by Yuvraj Singh at gully off http://www.senore.com/Cricket/I-Sharma-c1566.
At stumps, England had scored 24 runs with Strauss and Bell on the crease as England trail by 43 runs with 9 wickets in hand.
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