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England Pile On Runs On 2nd Day
England v India, 3rd Investec Test, Ageas Bowl, 2nd day
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| Debutant Jos Buttler launching an assault on the Indian Bowlers. |
England declared on 569/7 & then Anderson got Dhawan out early as India ended the day on 25/1 in 14 overs.
The Three Lions were led in by their centurions, Ballance and Bell, with Cook following behind after a hard day's work.
Led by Captain Cook's 95, England scored 569 runs for 7 wickets in the 1st innings of the 3rd Test. B Kumar was the most successful bowler for India, scalping 3 wickets. Buttler scored a quick-fire 85 in the end. At one stage of the innings he 2 back-to-back sixes off Pankaj Singh and then scored a boundary to gather 21 runs from the 163rd over.
Earlier, Ian Bell & Gary Ballance were near-perfect for England, they seldom missed, rarely edged & looked completely dominating as they raised the run-rate in the first session. It looked like a perfect day for batting. Ian Bell never looked like a man who has been out of form for a long time and hasn't scored a test.
MS Dhoni changed the bowling 15 times in as many overs in order to extract something from the Indian Attack. B Kumar, who has constantly been India's go-to man, couldn't do much himself. Shami continued his undisciplined bowling & Pankaj Singh lost his steam after bowling impressively at the start of both days.
England declaration meant that Indian openers had 14 overs to survive but it was a huge task cut out the way Broad & Anderson squared them up time and again. Both of them were swinging the ball at high speed consistently.
While M Vijay fended off most of them well enough, it was Dhawan who edged one to Alastair Cook at 1st slip after Anderson attack him from round the stumps. Poor Dhawan couldn't be blamed entirely for the dismissal such was the quality of the England Attack that it looked impossible stay for those 14 overs.
In the end Vijay & Pujara guided India to 25/1 on stumps without any further loss.
In the end Vijay & Pujara guided India to 25/1 on stumps without any further loss.
Cook and Ballance amongst Runs as England Dominate India
England v India, 3rd Investec Test, Ageas Bowl, Southampton, 1st day
Southampton:Alastair Cook fell justagonisingly short of ending his dismal spell without a Test century as he led from the front against India at Southampton on Sunday.
The England Captain won the toss & then made 95 out of England's 247/2 at stumps on the first day of the 3rd Test.
Gary Ballance, who with his captain put on 158 for the 2nd wicket, then reached three figures to be 104 not out at stumps along with Bell who was 16 not out.
Ballance has now smashed 3 hundreds & 2 fifties in his first 6 Tests.
The Indian Attack missed Ishant who was unfit for the game.
The first-wicket partnership of 55 was ended when Mohammed Shami squared up the Australia-born & Jadeja held the catch in the slips.
2 cut shots off spinners Rohit Sharma, playing in place of Stuart Binny, and Jadeja helped Cook to 48 not out at lunch.
He completed a 98-ball fifty as the crowd signalled its support with a standing ovation.
At tea, England were 186/1, with Cook 82 not out and Ballance 72 not out.
Alastair Cook's 5-hour innings ended when he got a bottom edge, while swiping at a long hop from left-arm spinner Jadeja, & was caught down the legside by wicketkeeper MS Dhoni.
Umpire Marais Erasmus took his time before giving him out, but replays confirmed that he was correct.
As he walked back, Cook received another standing ovation, having faced 231 balls including 9 boundaries en route to his gritty 95.
England now were 213/2, hey were fortunate when Bell survived an LBW appeal from Pankaj Singh after the bowler's excellent outswinging delivery wrapped him on the pads.
However, Singh deserved better than his figures of 0/62 in 20 overs but his was just one of several economical contributions as Indian bowlers kept England's run-rate below 3 per over .
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India knock-out England at Lords
India tour of England, 2nd Investec Test: England v India at Lord's
Indian Team played all-round cricket and wrote history when the side - led by Ishant Sharma's career best 7/74 - defeated England by 95 runs to win at Lord's after 28 years and take 1-0 lead in the series.
India's overseas win drought ended finally after more than 3 years, the last one being in West Indies 2011.
This new generation of Indian players showed the perfect blend of skill and confidence to script a memorable win for the visitors. They played with heart & celebrated with passion as the locals stood up to take note of history being unfolded.
Indian pacer Ishant Sharma gave a stellar bowling performance that ripped through England's batting line-up in the 2nd innings. Ishant returned splendid figures of 7/74, his career-best in Tests,.
The tall pacer came into the series under some severe pressure to perform & his poor bowling figures in the warm-up games did not help him. But he never stopped backing himself.
Ishant (7/74), Jadeja (68 in 2nd innings & 3 wickets total) and B Kumar (52 runs in 2nd innings & 6 wickets in 1st) led the attack and forced England to cave in. Such was the affect that England - needing 214 on the 5th day and with 6 wickets to spare - failed to resist even remotely. It took them just a little less than 2 sessions to fold up the remaining batting & allow India to a systematic and, more importantly, historic triumph.
India on Brink of Historic Win
England v India, 2nd Investec Test, Lord's, 4th day
London India were on the verge of their 2nd Test win at Lord's, the 1st one being in 1986, as Alastair Cook's latest batting failure fumed the debate about his future as England captain.
England were 105 for four at stumps on Sunday's fourth day, needing a further 214 runs to reach their victory target of 319.
Joe Root was not out on 14 & Moeen Ali on 15 at stumps, after England lost 3 wickets for just 2 runs from 70/1 to 72/4.
Captain Cook fell for 22 off 93 to make it 27 innings since scoring the last of his England record 25 hundreds.
His departure came shortly after Ian Bell, the most experienced batsman in England's top order, had been dismissed for 1, his 19th innings without a Test hundred.
Fast bowler Ishant Sharma removed both Bell & Cook no runs in 7 balls.
At lunch, India were 267/7, a lead of 243.
But the 10 overs post lunch saw Jadeja and seamer B Kumar score 66 runs.
Jadeja made a rollicking 68 while Kumar was last man out for 52, his 3rd fifty in 4 innings this series after his best bowling figures of 6/82 in England's 1st innings.
Murali Vijay keeps India Alive in Even Contest
England v India, 2nd Investec Test, Lord's, 3rd day
London:Murali Vijay anchored India's innings with asolid fifty after England looked to take charge of the 2nd Test at Lord's on Saturday.
India lost 3 wickets for just 5 runs in space of 19 balls to be 118/1 to 123/4 with a lead of just 99 runs.
At stumps on the third day they were 169/4, leading by 145 runs.
Opening batsman Vijay, batting for almost 5 hours, was 59 not out and India captain M S Dhoni unbeaten on 12.
Meanwhile, England's Liam Plunkett had a brilliant day with both bat & ball. Hescored a Test-best 55 not out to help his team to a first-innings lead & then took 2 big wickets in 2 balls.
Sikhar Dhawan was looking to attack upfront with Vijay playing calmly.
But on 31, Dhawan failed to get over the top of a cut off Ben Stokes & was caught by Joe Root at backward point to leave India 40/1.
Fast bowler Plunkett pitched the ball up & he was duly rewarded.
First, he drew Pujara (43) forward & got his outside edge which ended a 2nd-wicket stand of 78 in 30 overs.
Next ball, Virat Kohli made an awful mistake of leaving a ball which came back and was clean bowled for a golden duck.
Plunkett then wasted his hat-trick delivery as Rahane left a ball well wide of off stump.
Rahane, the centurion from 1st innings, was given out controversially because of the absence of DRS in this series.
Another concern for England was the slow over-rate which may result in a ban for the captain, Cook, who has now gone 26 innings without scoring a Test hundred.
Earlier, B Kumar took 6/82 as he recorded his Test-best figures for the second time in this series..
But even he could not prevent England gaining a slender 1st-innings lead of 24.
England's tail added 100 runs to the overnight score of 219/6 before being bowled out for 319.
Plunkett and Anderson, struck a flurry of boundaries as they added 39 in 43 balls.
Kumar had reduced England to 280/9 in initially overcast conditions on Saturday as he bowled Ben Stokes for a duck with a swinging delivery and then had Broad caught at 1st slip.
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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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England v India, 2nd Investec Test, Lord's, 1st day
London: A gutsy fine ton from Ajinkya Rahane & the precious 90-run partnership with Bhuvneshwar Kumar helped India recover from a batting collapse to reach a respective score of 290/9 against England on the 1st day of the second cricket Test.
India suffered a batting collapse, On a green top pitch at Lord's, losing 4 wickets for just 42 runs, but Rahane (103) & Kumar (36) put on a brave stand that saved India from 145/7 to a competitive score. At stumps, Shami was batting on 14 and Ishant on 12.
England's pace spearhead James Anderson picked up 4/ 55 while Broad got 2/ 79. Liam Plunkett, Ben Stokes & Moeen Ali got a wicket each.
Anderson was the most threatening bowler. His bowling did all the talking against the Indian batsmen, who have always been vulnerable to seam bowling.
Both the openers Shikhar Dhawan (7) and Murali Vijay (24) were dismissed early to reach 73/2 in their 1st session & then added another 67 runs by losing 4 wickets in the 2nd session to reach 140/6 at tea.
Shortly in the post tea session, Binny (6) was trapped lbw by Anderson, who looked as if he was taking a revenge against the Indians.
Next was a great fight-back by Rahane & Kumar, who also struck match-saving 50s in the first Test.
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Tail-enders lift India to 457
England v India, 1st Investec Test, Trent Bridge, 2nd day
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| Kumar's 58 included some pleasing strokes. |
India were in danger of surrendering to England after building a competitive total carefully over 4 sessions as they lost 4 wickets for just 4 runs after lunch today. But Bhuvneshwar Kumar & Mohammed Shami saved the day with a 111-run last-wicket stand that took out the fuel reserves of a frustrated England bowling and mustered India's total to 457.
Shortly after his heroics with the bat, Shami dismissed Alastair Cook in the 4th over of England innings, bowling the England captain round his legs as he walked too far across the stumps.
Throughout the remainder of the final session, Indian seam bowlers searched for the right length to discomfort Sam Robson and Gary Ballance. But they found themselves a bit shorter, but Ishant Sharma landed one in the perfect spot 2 overs from stumps only for the outside-edge from Ballance to drop a foot short of 2nd slip. Ravindra Jadeja, who bowled 2 overs, showed he could be key later in the Test after he got 1 ball to explode out of rough at Ballance.
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