Ravichandran Ashwin takes 5-43 when England roll for 134 in 59.5 overs and India take full control of the second Test in Chennai on the second day; Virat Kohli’s side lead a 249-run lead into day three in their attempt to balance the four-game series at 1-1
Last updated: 14/02/21 1:05 pm
Indian spinner Ravichandran took Ashwin 5-43 when England were outscored for 134 on the second day of the second Test (Pic credit – BCCI)
England face an all-powerful challenge to avoid the issue in the second Test after being spelled out for 134 by India on a bowler-friendly pitch during a 15-day wicket day two in the Chennai.
Ravichandran Ashwin took 5-43 and editor Axar Patel in bags 2-40, starting with England skipper Joe Root, who made just six after hitting 228, 186 and 221 in the first innings of the he has three test games this winter.
Ashwin’s scalps included Ben Stokes (18) – hit by a tasty ball that moved in and turned away to get off the stump – while Ben Foakes (42no) made the highest score ever in England in India.
Ben Foakes took the lead for England with 42 not out (Pic credit – BCCI)
England’s Foakes helped avoid any risk of being asked to continue but India led by a big 195 on the first innings, an advantage that moved them to 249 with stumps, with the Rohit Sharma’s first goal (25no) leads his team to 54-1 after sustaining several scares.
Rohit was given a lifeline on 20 when Foakes missed a stump, he survived a 21 lbw test with officials deciding he played a bullet against Moeen Ali after he was stabbed. struck outside the line by a ball that would have hit the stumps, and then turned. delete lbw off Jack Leach on 22.
Shubman Gill (14) is the only outfielder so far in India’s second innings – lbw to Leach – with Virat Kohli’s side in an excellent position to go ahead and level the t -series four games after being deceived by 227 runs in the series opener.
India’s Virat Kohli is in an excellent position to go ahead and level the four-game series at 1-1 (Pic credit – BCCI)
India had also started the day of batting but could only add 29 runs to their 300-6 night, with Moeen (4-128) and Olly Stone (3-47) leading the way. split the last four wikis, leaving Rishabh Pant missing at 58 not out.
Ali had stunned Axar with Foakes in the second half of the day after turning a pass past the left-hand drive and then caught Ishant Sharma (0) sweeping a full two-ball throw after that. .
A stone, which was impressive throughout his first Overseas Test, struck twice in the eighth, in the morning, to polish the Indian textures – the tails of Kuldeep Yadav (0) and Mohammed Siraj ( 4) captured by Foakes.
Olly Stone picked up two wickets in the morning when India went out for 329 in their first innings (Pic credit – BCCI)
Pant completed 65-ball, the sixth half-century test between Moeen and Stone’s double strikes, tuning Moeen for six and two fours and also depositing Root into the stands for maximum. over the long term.
England would have been positive about innings change, with India losing their last seven wickets for 81 runs, after being 248-3 on the first day as Rohit Sharma (161) ) and Ajinkya Rahane (67) 162 ris.
However, any hopes the visitors had about getting close to India emptied as they fell to 52-5 shortly after lunch – Stokes the fifth out while playing down the wrong line and bowled with Ashwin.
Rory Burns (0) went out lbw to the third member of the innings – just as India opener Gill had at Stone on the first day – as Ishant caught on the the emblem with a backing that would have gone to the stump of his leg. .
Ishant Sharma eliminates Rory Burns from the third member of England’s first innings (Pic credit – BCCI)
Dom Sibley, who had been spotted in a proper nickname while making 16, was then caught off Ashwin by Kohli at the slope of his leg, with a successful Indian study showing that the ball behind the bat hit the opener after first hitting his block.
Sibley walked before the adventure was sealed and three petals later Root, too, was scrambling off, after he swept Ashwin at the short leg while Axar’s left arm spinner got an extra kick off the decaying surface.
Dan Lawrence (9) became Ashwin’s third victim when he caught the last ball before lunch to Gill at the short leg to end a 52-delivery stay at the shower – England innings in tattoos at 39-4 after the morning session.
Stokes, as often the English talisman, could not lead a fight but Foakes and Ollie Pope (22) scored 35 for the sixth wicket before the Pope sent the first member of the game at Siraj behind him to Pant dive.
India keeper Rishabh Pant picked up two amazing catches behind the stocks (Pic credit – BCCI)
Pant made an extremely good catch jumping to his left to take away the Pope and leave England six down – something he did again after tea, off Ishant this time, to send Leach (5) exit and end the runner’s 25-bat alliance with Foakes and reduce the visitors to 131-9 at Chidambaram MA Stadium.
Ashwin tied the innings, bowling Stuart Broad on the second sweep ball while removing a left-back for the 200th time in test cricket and ensured England were sent off in 59.5 peitean.
Ashwin had made Stone (1) his fourth scalp of the day when the tail was caught at midwicket on a tea stroke, after Axar Moeen (6) was thrown by Rahane diving at a slope through a drag off a thigh pad Pant.
Ajinkya Rahane caught Moeen Ali slipping after Axar Patel’s delivery went off Pant’s thigh (Pic credit – BCCI)
The made-up Foakes won a red-inker and made sure India could not immediately bring England back – although Kohli seemed unlikely to do so at least with so far left in the game.
The only complaints India had was to throw away their reviews, all three of them were kidnapped within 46 years when they applied for Foakes lbw to Ashwin on 16.
A text report followed on day three of the second India-England Test in Chennai on skysports.com and the Sky Sports app from 3.50am on Monday.