12/08Result
2nd Test, India tour of England at London, Aug 12-16 2021
India won by 151 runs
Player of the Match
KL Rahul
KL RahulIndia
12/08Result
2nd Test, India tour of England at London, Aug 12-16 2021
India won by 151 runs
Player of the Match
KL Rahul
KL RahulIndia

1.50pm Kohli has declared. I think it is the conditions right now more than anything else. It is overcast and the ball seems to be moving since lunch. Now the target is 272 in 60 overs.

How this game has changed. You wonder if it is macho ego that made England lose the plot or it the pitch was too slow and unresponsive for them to have decided to unconventional ways to get wickets. I am sitting on the outside, but I'd suspect it was the former.

109.3
4
Anderson to Mohammed Shami, FOUR, wide of slip. They are just teasing England. Shami punches at a wide ball, takes the thick edge, it flies wide of slip
109.2
0
Anderson to Mohammed Shami, no run, short of a length, just outside off, Shami has a push at it, is beaten
109.1
0
Anderson to Mohammed Shami, no run, and he swings first ball, in the air, first bounce to mid-on

Right, ten minutes in, we are ready to start the second over. The last six minutes have gone finding the right thigh pad for Shami

Nine minutes since lunch already and only one over has been bowled. Test cricket doing its best

Anderson will bowl. England don't want India to get quick runs here. Kohli in his whites but Rahul is not. Floodlights are on. Shami is redoing his thigh pad one over after the break. What is happening?

END OF OVER:
109 | 8 Runs | IND: 294/8

  • Jasprit Bumrah34 (64b)
  • Mohammed Shami52 (67b)
  • Ollie Robinson17-6-45-2
  • Moeen Ali26-1-84-2
108.6
0
Robinson to Bumrah, no run, might have been a slower ball, hits him in the ribs after cutting back in
108.5
4
Robinson to Bumrah, FOUR, England showing the miles in the legs. This full ball has been driven to the left of mid-on, Anderson gets to it, but comes down ever so slowly, and lets it slip through for four
108.4
0
Robinson to Bumrah, no run, beaten again. Robinson goes back to bowling length, and it goes against the angle and past the outside edge
108.3
4lb
Robinson to Bumrah, 4 leg byes, short, stays low, nips back in, takes the pad, goes fine for four leg-byes. That might make India want to declare. Almost a shooter
108.2
0
Robinson to Bumrah, no run, beaten again. Just short of a length, the ball holds its line, and goes past the edge again

Kohli has changed into his whites

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England 4th innings Partnerships

WktRunsPlayers
1st1RJ BurnsDP Sibley
2nd0DP SibleyH Hameed
3rd43JE RootH Hameed
4th23JM BairstowJE Root
5th0JE RootJC Buttler
6th23MM AliJC Buttler
7th0JC ButtlerSM Curran
8th30JC ButtlerOE Robinson
9th0JC ButtlerMA Wood
10th0JM AndersonMA Wood