India v England (2nd Test, Day 1) - Sreesanth celebrates the wicket of Matt Prior |
NOTTINGHAM - - Second test between India and England enters into second day with the domination of Indian bowlers on the day one. India has to force back to level the series after a humiliating loss at Lord’s in the series opener, which happened to be the 2000th test in the history of cricket.
India was trailing by 197 runs with 9 wickets in hand and two experienced players, VVS Laxman and Rahul Dravid were batting on 13 and 7 respectively. Young opener Abhinav Mukund fell early to James Anderson without disturbing the scorers.
Earlier on the day one; India won the toss and MS Dhoni, after having a close look to the pitch, decided to invite the hosts to bat first which proved a good decision and all the English side sent back to pavilion on just 224 with Stuart Broad topping the batting list with his defiant 64-run innings. Andrew Strauss (32), Ian Bell (31) and Kevin Piertersen (29) were other significant batsmen from England.
All Indian bowlers, in the absence of leading fast bowler Zaheer Khan, bowled impressively; especially top three pacers Praveen Kumar, Ishant Sharma and S Sreesanth claimed 3 wickets each while Harbhajan Singh picked up important wicket of Stuart Broad.
India succeeded to pull back first day of the second test but the question is ‘whether they will continue their brilliance to come back and level the series’.
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