India v England 2nd test match was an exciting match specially for England fans. India dominated the first two sessions of the match. But England came back strong by dominating not only the other sessions but also all the days of the Trent Bridge, Nottingham India vs England second test match.
At one stage when England was on 128/8 in the first innings on the first day of India v England test match everyone was thinking of India’s strong come back in the series. But Stuart Broad scored 64 runs and took their first inning total to 221. England never looked back from their.
India started their first inning without Gambhier who was out from this test match. India had a poor start of the innings as Mukund got out for first ball duck. Rahul Dravid scored his second century of the series and equaled the greates of Sunil Gavasker and Brian Lara with 34 centuries to everyons name. Apart from Dravid’s innings none of India’s batsmen impressed much. Though India scored 288 and took 67 runs lead.
In second innings Ian Bell changed the faith of the team by scoring 159 runs and cameos played by Stuart Broad and Tim Bresnan at the end of the innings helped England to reach 544 runs ant the lead of 477 runs.
The target of 478 runs proved to much for India’s batting line up and they bowled out for just 158 runs. Only Sachin Tendulkar scored 56 runs which was to little.
India is now two matches behind in this India England test series. England is Leading 2-0 in the four matches test series.
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