India and England are at MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chepauk, Chennai. Both the teams are dominating each-other by bat and ball. At he end of the second day India is in pressure of English bowlers. India already has lost its 5 valuable wickets (top five wickets) by scoring 101 runs. Englands new off spin bowler GP Swann sacked 2 wickets.
In spite of England’s middle order’s batmen failure they scored 316 runs after one and half day. The opener batsman AJ Strauss acquired 123 runs and with the half-centuries of other two batsmen (AN Cook and MJ Prior) threw the team in a strong position.
Here is nothing to analyze the India batting side. The top order batsmen have failed totally to protect English bowlers and as result they are paying for their mistake. G Gambhir, V Sehwag and R Dravid has totally destroyed the dream of the match which the bowlers raised by preventing the English men in 316 runs in the second mid day of the first innings.
Now, Indian batsmen should drive the bat carefully at the end of the day even in the morning session, otherwise they will suffer a lot. The two batsmen (Yuvraj Singh and MS Dhoni) who are batting now are not considered as the test batsmen. The second and the first innings of the 1st test will come to end within a few over bowling. At this moment the score of the day is:
England in India Test Series - 1st Test
India v England 2008/09 season
England 1st innings R M B 4s 6s SR
AJ Strauss c & b Mishra 123 356 233 15 0 52.78
AN Cook c Khan b Harbhajan Singh 52 172 116 5 0 44.82
IR Bell lbw b Khan 17 68 51 1 0 33.33
KP Pietersen c & b Khan 4 34 33 0 0 12.12
PD Collingwood c Gambhir b Harbhajan Singh 9 33 26 1 0 34.61
A Flintoff c Gambhir b Mishra 18 75 2 0 24.00
JM Anderson c Yuvraj Singh b Mishra 19 82 2 0 23.17
MJ Prior not out 53 102 1 0 51.96
GP Swann c Dravid b Harbhajan Singh 1 6 0 0 16.66
SJ Harmison c Dhoni b Yuvraj Singh 6 23 0 0 26.08
MS Panesar lbw b Sharma 6 26 0 0 23.07
Extras (lb 7, nb 1) 8
Total (all out; 128.4 overs) 316 (2.45 runs per over)
Fall of wickets1-118 (Cook, 39.6 ov), 2-164 (Bell, 57.2 ov), 3-180 (Pietersen, 65.4 ov), 4-195 (Collingwood, 72.2 ov), 5-221 (Strauss, 83.3 ov), 6-229 (Flintoff, 92.5 ov), 7-271 (Anderson, 110.4 ov), 8-277 (Swann, 113.4 ov), 9-304 (Harmison, 122.3 ov), 10-316 (Panesar, 128.4 ov)
Bowling O M R W Econ
Z Khan 21 9 41 2 1.95
I Sharma 19.4 4 32 1 1.62 (1nb)
Harbhajan Singh 38 2 96 3 2.52
A Mishra 34 6 99 3 2.91
Yuvraj Singh 15 2 33 1 2.20
V Sehwag 1 0 8 0 8.00
India 1st innings R B 4s 6s SR
G Gambhir lbw b Swann 19 43 3 0 44.18
V Sehwag b Anderson 9 16 2 0 56.25
R Dravid lbw b Swann 3 24 0 0 12.50
SR Tendulkar c & b Flintoff 37 48 4 1 77.08
VVS Laxman c & b Panesar 24 60 3 0 40.00
Yuvraj Singh not out 13 35 2 0 37.14
MS Dhoni not out 23 30 3 0 76.66
Extras (b 2, lb 3, nb 3) 8
Total (5 wickets; 42.1 overs) 136 (3.22 runs per over)
To bat Harbhajan Singh, Z Khan, A Mishra, I Sharma
Fall of wickets1-16 (Sehwag, 5.2 ov), 2-34 (Gambhir, 13.3 ov), 3-37 (Dravid, 13.6 ov), 4-98 (Laxman, 31.2 ov), 5-102 (Tendulkar, 32.1 ov)
Bowling O M R W Econ
SJ Harmison 7 1 21 0 3.00
JM Anderson 10 3 26 1 2.60
A Flintoff 10.1 2 19 1 1.86 (3nb)
GP Swann 7 0 35 2 5.00
MS Panesar 8 2 30 1 3.75
Score is taken from Cricinfo.com