Team India continued their domination over England on the second day of the third Test at Trent Bridge, Nottingham on Sunday (August 19).
Resuming their innings from 307/6, India were bundled out for 329 in just 47 balls in the morning session. The visiting bowlers also got off to a wayward start as England went to the lunch with 46 for no loss.
However, things changed drastically in the second session. India speedsters Ishant Sharma and Jasprit Bumrah removed the English openers, Cook and Jennings, in successive deliveries. Afterwards, all-rounder Hardik Pandya wreaked havoc and recorded his maiden five-wicket haul in Test cricket.
Pandya’s figures of 5 for 28 tore apart the English middle-order as the hosts slumped from 108/4 to 128/9. At Tea, England got bowled out for 161 in 38.2 overs with Jos Buttler (39) being the highest scorer for the team.
After securing a massive lead of 168 runs in the first innings, India’s openers, Shikhar Dhawan and KL Rahul, went berserk and added 60 runs in just 11 overs. Ben Stokes removed the dangerous looking Rahul for 33-ball 36 but India’s scoring rate didn’t drop a bit.
Dhawan and Pujara forged a 51-run partnership for the second wicket before leg-spinner Adil Rashid removed the former for 44. Shikhar’s dismissal led to skipper Virat Kohli’s arrival at the crease. The duo of Virat and Pujara then made sure that India don’t lose any more wicket in the day. While the Indian captain remained unbeaten on 8, Pujara finished on 33*as India ended the second day on 124/2, leading England by 292 runs.
Twitter experts were impressed to see the way Kohli and company bossed the Test match on Day 2.
Here are some of the tweets from the second day’s play:
As good as England were last week the last 2 sessions today have been as bad as I have seen for a long while .... scratch my balding head how consistently Inconsistent our Test Team is .... #OnOn #ENDvIND
— Michael Vaughan (@MichaelVaughan) August 19, 2018
Loving the performance from the lads today. Top stuff ???????????? #ENDvIND
— Gaurav Kapur (@gauravkapur) August 19, 2018
A good test match for young KL Rahul. Took some good catches and showed lot of promise with the bat in these conditions. He's only going to become better from here. #ENGvIND
— R P Singh (@rpsingh) August 19, 2018
Cook in his bye-bye series? Hasn’t made significant contribution yet, dropped a few in the slips. Even marginal slowing of reflexes can make huge difference
— Cricketwallah (@cricketwallah) August 19, 2018
Great to see two young guns @hardikpandya7 and @RishabPant777 do so well today. A brilliant performance by #TeamIndia in the field. ????
— MANOJ TIWARY (@tiwarymanoj) August 19, 2018
It seems to me, more and more, that the first 15 overs are the best time to bat here. Ball seems to do much more later.
— Harsha Bhogle (@bhogleharsha) August 19, 2018
And now it’s England’s turn to face the ire o English conditions!But a lot of it has to do w/Root’s decision o tossing it away-so grin & bear it fellas-there’s still plenty o Crkt left w/vagaries o Eng weather hovering around-at long last Indns seem happy & Peaceful..InshaAllah!
— Bishan Bedi (@BishanBedi) August 19, 2018
Bowlers did great for team India but most importantly india was able to do was to play the new ball well. For me that’s giving advantage to Indian team which wasn’t the case before this test match #ENDvIND
— Irfan Pathan (@IrfanPathan) August 19, 2018
Well done with the cherry @hardikpandya7. Showed some character. Go well with the bat as well .. boy! Game on... #ENGvIND
— Pragyan Prayas Ojha (@pragyanojha) August 19, 2018