India vs England - TEST
Stumps
1st Test, Sardar Patel Stadium, Motera, Ahmedabad, India, Thu, 15 - Mon, 19 Nov 2012 09:30 AM IST
India won the toss & elected to bat
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- Day 4, 2nd Innings - Session 3 (Follow on)
- ENG 340/5 in 128 overs
- ENG leads by 10 run(s)
- Cur RR: 2.65
1st Innings
ENG 191/10
IND 521/8 (Dec.)
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Umesh Yadav rocked the visitors with a double-strike when he replaced the creaking Zaheer in the eighth over after resumption. Bell (22) was moving towards eradicating memories of his first innings mental lapse, when Yadav surprised him with pace and reverse swing. Bell was trapped back and hit on the pads, the appeal upheld, and in came Samit Patel only to face a reprisal of fate.
Patel had barely walked in when another Yadav reverse swinger cannoned into his pads. The ball would have just about shaved leg stick – it did shave Patel’s inside edge - but Tony Hill raised the wretched finger, sending the batsman back in exactly the same manner as the first innings, leg-before to Yadav, ball missing leg.
England were now half their side down, 130 runs away from an innings defeat, as Cook saw off Yadav’s hat-trick ball, spanked Ojha for four, accumulated, guided, saw helplessly the demise of more teammates from the other end – each of his runs arriving as a stark contrast to the desperate grappling of his fellow batsmen.
Aggressive Prior takes fight to India
India opted for the second new ball in the middle of the 83rd over, handing it over to Yadav and allowing Matt Prior to find his bearings. He was watchful against the spinners, assertive against Yadav – whom he dispatched for a couple of boundaries – and hit top gear when he used his feet to clip Ashwin for four over mid-wicket.
The 50 stand came up in good time as Prior crashed Ojha through backward point - Zaheer’s lethargy allowing the ball over the fence – and England were just 80 away from making India bat again. India strove hard for another wicket before tea. Prior’s edge off Ojha landed short of Sehwag at slip and although he was tested repeatedly by both spinners, he managed to hang on till the break, the partnership now worth an invaluable 65.
One ball from tea, Ojha padded at a ball that caught his glove before ballooning towards silly point, where substitute Ajinkya Rahane - on for Gambhir – turned in a valiant but fruitless dive. Tea was served with England on 264/5 in 100 overs, 66 away from an innings defeat. Cook 138, Prior 40, five wickets in hand and a session and a day to survive.
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