Monday, August 01, 2011

"Cricket: India vs England 2nd test: Eng 441, lead by 371 runs"

The hosts are in total control of the match right now. India vs England live score at the end of the 3rd day was 441 in response to India’s 288. Live streaming of the 2nd cricket test match doesn’t seem to be available anywhere.
  

India seems to be on backfoot as English batsmen have stolen the initiative from India. The good work of the previous inning has been lost and the batsmen from Engalnd seem to be in control in the saddle.

So if tehre was any doubt as to who was a better team, tehre is none at the moment. Strauss and his men have proved beyond doubt as to who is a better side and why they are the favorite to win not just this match but the series.
Ian Bell played an outstanding ining, and took the

match away from India. But there were more players to come who added to Indian injuries. Pietersen scored 63 runs while Morgan played a defiant inning of 70 runs.
But it were Prior and Bresnan who damaged the Indian team most. They played in a one day international fashion and scored runs in excess of 5 runs per over. In fact the whole English team’s average was 4.36, a sort of new thing in the test match.
Prior just faced 55 balls and scored 64 runs that included a massive six and 8 fours. Bresnan was supporting him well and was playing at 44 runs when the third day’s play ended. England were playing at 441 runs.
The scenario now is altogether different now. No one had thought that the English team that wilted under pressure in the first inning would be able to score so many runs. If England are able to take  alead of more than 450 or even 400 runs- they are going to get anyhow- India will have virtually no chance in this match.
England first innings: 221 all out
India first innings: 288 all out
England second innings:
Andrew Strauss c Dhoni b Sreesanth 16
Alastair Cook c Yuvraj Singh b Sharma 5
Ian Bell c Laxman b Yuvraj Singh 159
Kevin Pietersen c Dhoni b Sreesanth 63
Eoin Morgan c Dhoni b Kumar 70
Matt Prior batting 64
Jonathan Trott c Dravid b Kumar 2
Tim Bresnan batting 47
Extras: (b 9, lb 3, w 1, nb 2) 15
Total: (for six wickets in 101 overs) 441
Fall of wickets 1-6 (Cook, 3.4 overs), 2-57 (Strauss, 19.1), 3-219 (Pietersen, 55.2), 4-323 (Bell, 77.6), 5-329 (Morgan, 80.2), 6-339 (Trott, 82.4)
Bowling:
Praveen Kumar 29 5 93 2
Ishant Sharma 24 3 115 1
S. Sreesanth 22 5 103 2
Yuvraj Singh 10 0 41 1
Harbhajan Singh 9 1 47 0
Suresh Raina 7 0 30 0

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