Axar Patel takes five wickets in second place when England came out for 164 on day four in Chennai after a Moeen Ali (43 off 18) cameo; 1-1 four-match tiered match enters third Overnight Test in Ahmedabad from Wednesday, February 24
Last updated: 16/02/21 7:29 am
India’s Virat Kohli side won England with 317 runs in the second Test in Chennai (Pic credit – BCCI)
England fell to 317 for India in the second Test after being knocked out for 164 on day four while the guests drew 1-1 in the a series of four games.
England, who started the play on Tuesday in Chennai at 53-3 in pursuit of 482 for victory, were sent off early in the second session in 54.2 overs when Kuldeep Yadav sent Moeen Ali (43 off). 18) to stop by Rishabh Pant.
Moeen went down swimming, hitting three sixes in a row after five-wicket (5-60) Axar Patel and five overall in a pulsating cameo, with England captain Joe Root (33) the only bat another which passed 26.
England captain Joe Root made 33 on the fourth day in Chennai (pic credit – BCCI)
Ravichandran Ashwin (3-53) brought his full wickets in the game to eight but missed out on becoming the fourth player in Trials to complete a century and take a 10-wicket slack in the same game, club which includes Sir Ian Botham, who achieved action against India in Mumbai in 1980.
Shakib Al Hasan Bangladesh all-rounder (against Zimbabwe in Khulna in 2014) and Pakistan legend Imran Khan (against India at Faisalabad in 1983) are the other two players who made the double famous.
India won – a week after surpassing 227 runs in the first Test – beating England’s six-game climb in overseas Tests and ensuring the sides going to the third test during the day in Ahmedabad from February 24 all-round.
Ravichandran Ashwin hit a hundred and put eight wikis in the game at an all-time great performance (Pic credit – BCCI)
England could welcome sailors James Anderson and Jofra Archer for that match – both missing the second Test due to rest and elbow injuries respectively – while Jonny Bairstow, Mark Wood and Sam Curran are on hand. get after being circulated for both opening tests.
Joe Root ‘s side will also hope to pitch better than the Chennai striker with a lot of weakness – not that that should be used as a reason for their overall case in the second Test.
India just played better cricket, albeit in more familiar conditions, collecting 615 runs from their 181.4 overs compared to England’s 298 from their 114.1.
Rohit Sharma won 161 in the first innings of India of 329 after Virat Kohli won the toss and was selected for bat (Pic credit – BCCI)
Virat Kohli was lucky to win the toss but his men made the biggest win by placing 300-6 on the first day, an effort aided by 161 at Rohit Sharma, the opener’s seventh try. hundred and first against England.
India added just 29 runs to their score on the second day but their overall number looked intimidating so it proved how England were torpedoed for 134 in 59.5 overs in response – Ashwin ( 5-43) the main destroyer as Root men made a card on the first ever low level. -innings score in India.
The home team led by 195 after the first innings, an advantage that moved them to 481 on day three after making 286 in their second innings – Ashwin (106) and Kohli (62) picking up their side from 106-6 with a seven-wicket stand of 96 before Ashwin advanced to finish off a 134-ball, fifth-hundred test.
England’s impossible job became even more difficult as openers Dom Sibley (3) and Rory Burns (25) fell spinning on the third afternoon – night watchman Jack Leach ( 0) suffer the same.
Ashwin was a leading maker of variations in the Test (Pic credit – BCCI)
Root and Dan Lawrence (26) came through the first six innings on day four, just for Lawrence then to be brilliantly stumped by Pant down the leg side after advancing to Ashwin from the first ball. of the seventh.
Ashwin turned his first delivery of the day between Lawrence ‘s legs and the invisible Pant eliminating the bailiffs.
Ashwin was then caught on Ben Stokes (8) by a slip with Kohli after an English bat slipped into his pack playing for a spin that did not happen, while Ollie Pope (12) was caught on the sheaf slog off Axar.
Ben Foakes (2) was also out sweeping Kuldeep on a lunch stroke – the player bagged a belated wicket after Mohammed Siraj dropped Root off his bowling while the England captain turned back on 32.
Root then saved a very easy ball to play from Axar to Ajinkya Rahane at a slope after the break and when the same bowler Olly Stone hit lbw for a duck, England were 126-9.
Moeen’s innings brought some late sports but this was a terrible loss for England after the high levels of the first Test.
Ben Foakes won beautifully for England in the Second Test (Pic credit – BCCI)
There were still some positives, most notably Foakes’ special tuning, spinner Moeen Ali’s eight wikis and salvo with the stick and Stone Bowler’s skill and speed as the trio showed up in their first tests from 2019.
The series is now very exciting with two trials remaining, as well as the battle to face New Zealand in the Final of the Lord ‘s World Test Championship at the end of June.
England need to win the last two tests to qualify, and India must beat at least 2-1 – with any other set of results meaning Australia will take on the captains black at Cricket Home.
England and India’s first focus, however, will be the pink ball Test in Ahmedabad, before the series ends at the same venue with a regular day game from Thursday, March 4th.
Follow a text report of the third Test during the day between India and England in Ahmedabad on skysports.com and the Sky Sports app from 8.30am on Wednesday, February 24th.