Trent Bridge Test - England v India – 4th Day’s Recap
England 221 & 544 v India 288 & 158 (47.4 ov) - England won by 319 runs
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/England-c56013 registered their second win against India in the ongoing four-match npower Test series on the fourth day of the second Test at Trent Bridge, Nottingham, England.
The Poms won the game after posting an intimating target of 478 runs for India to level the series; however, the visitors were rattled by the quality bowling of the English pacers who packed the Indian team on a sheepish tally of 158 runs.
Earlier in the day, England continued their overnight second innings with Mat Prior (64 runs) and http://www.senore.com/Cricket/TT-Bresnan-c2711 (47 runs) as England sought to build on their third day’s tally of 441 for 6.
Both batsmen exhibited tremendous form with the bat as they took the Indian bowling apart by smacking them all around the park. From the way they were batting England’s intentions were clear that they were aiming to put another 100 runs on the board as quick
as possible to give the Indian batsmen an opportunity to chase the tally.
Prior, clobbered an innings of 73 runs off 60 deliveries while his partner Bresnan who is originally a bowler in the English squad, played an inspirational innings of 90 runs off 118 deliveries. The batsman smacked 17 boundaries the innings.
In the 103rd over of the day, Prior was removed by Praveen Kumar when an edge was taken by http://www.senore.com/Cricket/MS-Dhoni-c2028 behind stumps. The sight of the batsman walking back relieved the Indians who were beginning to get frustrated by the presence of the
two flamboyant batsmen. At the time of Prior’s departure, England had posted 458 runs on the board for the loss of seven wickets.
However, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/WP-Saha-c2800 after playing a talented innings
of 44 runs. The batsman tailored his innings at a tough time when his team needed to score a humongous tally to secure their grip on the game.
On the next ball, Bresnan was prevented from getting a century by http://www.senore.com/Cricket/JM-Anderson-c1705 helped the side reach the score of 544 runs.
With a huge target ahead, India needed a stable batting onslaught to take the game away from the English with two days to chase, however, the top three batsmen were brushed aside by the belligerent English pacers as Dravid was sent back in the fourth over
by Broad after the batsman had scored just six runs off 12 deliveries.
Then in the seventh over, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/VVS-Laxman-c2772 was left rattled when James Anderson shattered his stumps on a sensational delivery. The number three batsman went back to the pavilion after scoring four runs off seven deliveries.
While on the penultimate delivery of the 14th over, opener http://www.senore.com/Cricket/AJ-Strauss-c964 to hold on to the ball. The batsman scored three runs off 41 deliveries
before finding his way back to the pavilion.
With the top batting brigade gone, it was the batting maestro http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Chinnadupargea-Sachin-c50607 needed batsmen to hold the other end which was becoming a rare probability as wickets kept calling
like http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Gareth-Berg-c1457.
It was only Tendulkar and http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Harbhajan-Singh-c61453 who crafted an intimidating innings as the both scored 56 and 46 runs. However, their efforts were not enough as the English pace attack was just too aggressive to be held back.
Tendulkar was given leg-before-wicket when he failed to judge a beautiful delivery bowled by Anderson that came in just at the last moment, while Singh’s wicket came as a result of another bouncer by Bresnan.
In the end, the Indian team could only bolster a meagre tally of 158 as they went two down in the series.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/SCJ-Broad-c2465 was named as the man of the match for showing splendid form with the bat and then giving an equally impressive performance with the ball as he took a hat-trick in the first innings.
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