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India claw back after Ballance century
India tour of England, 2nd Investec Test: England v India at Lord's
On Friday, India took 2 quick wickets in the closing hour of the game after Ballance scored his 2nd Test century, very much like Ajinkya Rahane did, to rescue England & put the game in balance. Ballance and Moeen Ali, two of England's success stories
in recent times, combined to good effect putting on 98 for the 5th wicket, having come together when their side was in trouble at 113/4.
England captain Alastair Cook had yet another failure with the bat. B Kumar picked up the top 4 English batsmen returning with impressive figures of 4/46 in 23 overs as the home side reached 219/6 at stumps on day 2 of the 2nd Test at Lord's.
Cook nicked a good length away swinging ball from Kumar to wicketkeeper Dhoni.
Sam Robson drove loosely at a wide ball & was caught behind scoring just 17. Ian Bell also departed for a mere 16 runs.
Root was lbw for 13 to left-armer Ravindra Jadeja.
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India bat to a Draw at Trent Bridge
England v India, 1st Investec Test, Trent Bridge, 5th day
India suffered a serious scare at the start of day 5 as England took 3 wickets for 17 runs in the 1st hour of the play. But Stuart Binny batted them to safety & was looked on course for a century on debut before Moeen Ali dismissed him LBW with 10 minutes to go for tea. B Kumar then scored his 2nd fifty of the match & England didn't get to begin a second innings as the players shook hands when MS Dhoni declared at the stroke of the final hour.
By then, Alastair Cook had provided the Trent Bridge crowd with 1 over of seemingly useless offspin & 1 over of gentle medium-pace, with which wrapped up Ishant Sharma caught behind down the leg side. Cook's Bob Willis impersonations summed up the Test match, during which it had become increasingly difficult to assess the 2 sets of players, on a surface with nothing in it for the bowlers. This test match will mostly be remembered for the lower-order batting records.
Binny showed his batting agility, but it can't be said that he completely justified his selection, it would be harsh to judge his seam bowling on this pitch. He might even find himself in the strange position of being left out of the team for the second Test after coming close to a century on debut and helping save a match from a wobbly position.
Root & Anderson stun India
England v India, 1st Investec Test, Trent Bridge, 4th day
James Anderson and Joe Root shared the highest last-wicket stand in Test history as England mounted a superb fourth-day fightback against India.
Scorecard
Scorecard
They put on 198 in the first Test at Trent Bridge, beating the 163 between Australia's Phil Hughes and Ashton Agar at the same ground last year.
Anderson made 81 - the highest score by an England number 11 - with Root unbeaten on 154 as England made 496.
In their second innings, India closed on 167-3 - a lead of 128.
"It's still sinking in what we've achieved. It's a great day for us," seam bowler Anderson, whose previous highest Test score was 34, told BBC Sport.
Record breakers at the Bridge |
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Root and Anderson's stand was the highest for the 10th wicket in Tests
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Anderson made the highest Test score by an England number 11
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Anderson's innings of 230 minutes was the longest by a Test number 11
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No player has waited as long as Anderson for his maiden Test fifty - 131 innings
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Never before have two number 11s scored half-centuries in the same Test
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This is the first Test in which there have been two century stands for the last wicket
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"I got 49 not out once for Burnley when I batted through a 50-over game."
Root and Anderson had helped England recover from 298-9 to open up a first-innings lead of 39.
They came together at 17:30 BST on Friday after an England batting collapse, and resumed on Saturday with the hosts 352-9.
Root, who began the day on 78, completed his fourth Test hundred off 186 balls as he and Anderson frustrated the India bowlers on a flat pitch.
Anderson, 23 not out overnight, was dropped on 46 but thrilled a capacity crowd in recording the highest first-class score of his 168-match career.
Highest 10th-wicket Test partnerships |
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198: J Root & J Anderson, England v India, Nottingham, 2014
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163: P Hughes & A Agar, Australia v England, Nottingham, 2013
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151: B Hastings & R Collinge, New Zealand v Pakistan, Auckland, 1973
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151: A Mahmood & M Ahmed, Pakistan v South Africa, Rawalpindi, 1997
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143: D Ramdin & T Best, West Indies v England, Birmingham, 2012
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His innings surpassed the previous highest score by an England number 11, the 59 not out made by John Snow in 1966.
India's total featured a record last-wicket stand of their own, as Bhuvneshwar Kumar and last man Mohammed Shami put on 111, and this match is also the first time two number 11s have scored fifties in the same Test.
courtesy: http://www.bbc.com/sport/0/cricket/28277458
