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England gave India an absolute Thrashing in Mumbai by 10 Wickets, In one of the Greatest performances seen by an England team in Sub Continent conditions for a long time. The Indians had won the Toss and chose to Bat and try to carry on where they left off in the 1st test, as they had outplayed England winning by 9 Wickets in Ahmedabad.
England had a great start getting Gambhir out for 1 with James Anderson trapping him LBW after facing just 2 balls. Virender Sehwag then came to the crease to partner Cheteshwar Pujara as he was going along very well. But then that started the Monty Panasar show, as he got the wicket of Sehwag for 30 by knocking his off stump out. Not long later he got the prized Wicket of Sachin Tendulkar with a Fantastic delivery
Next to fall victim to Monty Spin bowling was Kohli as he was caught by Compton for just 19 runs. 1 run was added to the indians total when Graeme Swan bowled Yujah Singh as India struggling at 119 for 4. Indian captain MS Dhoni put up a bit of resistant with a innings of 29 before the Spinner duo combined to take his wicket too. As Swann caught him off the bowling of Panasar.
Ravi Ashwin and Pujara were the best pairing putting on a 100 Partnership in 180 balls, As Indian went from 169-6 to 280 for 7 after Ashwin innings came to an end when Monty got him LBW for 68 . Harabjan Singh had a cameo scoring 21 with 4 fours and 1 Six in it before falling to Swann by LBW. Eventually England got the Big Wicket of Pujara as he got stumped by Prior trying smash a Swann delivery and he great innings came to an end for 135 runs.
Zaheer Khan came in and scored an entertaining knock of 11 before, becoming Swann 4th victim of the 1st Innings and Bowling the home side out for 327 ALL OUT. As Monty had figures of 5-129, and Graeme Swann figures 4 -70.
England then had there turn to bat as all eyes on where on the batsmen, as their poor display in the 1st innings back in the opening test match brought them into scrutiny. So a good performance was needed much like their 2nd innings was. Cook and Compton started well reaching 66 before Compton was caught in the slips off the bowling of Ojha for 29 runs. Jonathan Trott came in to bat and faced 6 balls before being given Lbw for a Duck!
Kevin Pietersen came in with England in a semi collapse and him and Cook batted out day 2 and put on a partnership of 200 between them. India toiled as the batsmens pushed the score on, eventually Cook innings of 122 came to an end, it was his 4th test hundred in 4 matches and most got the record of Most Hundreds by an England Batsman with his 22nd in relatively short career. Ashwin was the bowler to get his wicket caught by Dhoni behind.
Bairstow poor form continued with the bat as he nervously played at one and got caught at Silly point by Gambhir off the bowling of Ojha. Pietersen on the other hand was looking in great nick as he slogged a Six to bring up his 150. Patel runs helped England get past the Indian score and a creditable score of 26 with Four 4s and a six was a nice little innings by him. His dismissal was off Ohja once again & squirm out to gully to with Kohli took the catch to make it 357-5.
Pietersen then tried to cut a delivery off Ojha but unluckily for him went straight into the gloves of Dhoni and gave Ojha his 5 Wicket of the Tourists innings, plus England had now a lead of 55 runs.
The final 4 Wickets of England went for just 8 runs. Prior gave his wicket away after blocking a shot, he thought a run was on that never was and was run out by a few inches. Stuart Broad tour of India was getting worse as he was out for 6. Harbhajan Singh took his 2nd wicket in the his next over getting James Anderson out Lbw as it flicked the pad thought may have been going over.
Monty then came in 11 and his first ball face sweeped over the field for a brilliant 4 i think he was still giddy over his four as next ball tried the same beat the fielders near him, but not Zaheer Khan as he caught him to bring an end to the Tourists innings as they reached 413 and take a lead of 86.
India had hoped to set a difficult run chase for England, and make their Bowlers,Sweat and toil in the field with the blisteringly hot weather in Mumbai. However things didn`t go to plan as Sehwag was was first to depart to the changing rooms for just 9, as Monty started the demolition job on the India side. A great delivery by Panasar turning it off the pitch and the ball bing diverted to the safe hands of fellow Spinner Graeme Swann with a low catch.
Pujara who was a thorn in the England side in the 1st innings was out cheaply for 6 as Bairstow took a great diving catch off the bowling of Swann to give England 2 early wickets. "The Little Master" Sachin Tendulkar came in to produce hopefully for the Indian crowd a innings to help India, But Monty would have none of it and for the 2nd time in the match got him LBW with another great delivery.
Kohli was next to go when a mistimed shot of Swann bowling found the SUB fielder Root in the field and straight to him for a measly 7. Yuvraj Singh then was caught at Silly point by Bairstow with Monty getting his 3rd Wicket of the Indians 2nd innings, but there was more to come from Monty.
Dhoni fell to the Masterclass Panasar was producing at Spin bowling as his shot carried to Trott in the slips & India were in Massive trouble with the scorecard reading 92-6!
Ashwin and Gambhir started a mini revival, As Ashwin put on 11 runs scoring the only 6 in the Indians innings. But he too was out to Panasar as skied his shot high high in the air and Sami Patel got under it and caught it. England were in dreamland now, Gambhir was the only batsman to come out with any credit as he carried taking the attack to the bowlers. Swann got on in the action as his delivery spun quicker and had extra bounce to deflect off the glove of Harbhajan Singh and easily to Trott in the slips for another catch making it 8 down for India.
Panasar completed his Wicket haul with 6 as he got Khan out when he tried to hit it out the ground but hopeless smashed it up in the air and Prior kept his eye on the ball and caught it for 9 down and England were on the verge of a great Victory in the Sub-Continent. England thought they`d wrapped up the game when an Inside edge off Ohja bat and pad found it`s way to Swann, but Umpire Aleem Dar wasn`t interested..but it was just delaying the inevitable. Swann then got the Indians Final wicket as his ball hit Gambhir in line..but seemed like he had nick on it first. But as India don`t like DRS they couldn`t review the wicket and so INDIA Collapsed to 142 ALL OUT.
England openers came out to knock the 57 off they needed for victory, And they comfortably got them inside in just over half an hour and needed just 9.4 overs to get the job done. As the winning runs came from a ball that Compton missed at and ran off to the boundary for 4 giving them a Great victory in Mumbai and Level the series at 1-1 with 3 to go with the next Test being played in Kolatta. Though England may change a couple of players for that Test.
Bairstow poor form continued with the bat as he nervously played at one and got caught at Silly point by Gambhir off the bowling of Ojha. Pietersen on the other hand was looking in great nick as he slogged a Six to bring up his 150. Patel runs helped England get past the Indian score and a creditable score of 26 with Four 4s and a six was a nice little innings by him. His dismissal was off Ohja once again & squirm out to gully to with Kohli took the catch to make it 357-5.
Pietersen then tried to cut a delivery off Ojha but unluckily for him went straight into the gloves of Dhoni and gave Ojha his 5 Wicket of the Tourists innings, plus England had now a lead of 55 runs.
The final 4 Wickets of England went for just 8 runs. Prior gave his wicket away after blocking a shot, he thought a run was on that never was and was run out by a few inches. Stuart Broad tour of India was getting worse as he was out for 6. Harbhajan Singh took his 2nd wicket in the his next over getting James Anderson out Lbw as it flicked the pad thought may have been going over.
Monty then came in 11 and his first ball face sweeped over the field for a brilliant 4 i think he was still giddy over his four as next ball tried the same beat the fielders near him, but not Zaheer Khan as he caught him to bring an end to the Tourists innings as they reached 413 and take a lead of 86.
India had hoped to set a difficult run chase for England, and make their Bowlers,Sweat and toil in the field with the blisteringly hot weather in Mumbai. However things didn`t go to plan as Sehwag was was first to depart to the changing rooms for just 9, as Monty started the demolition job on the India side. A great delivery by Panasar turning it off the pitch and the ball bing diverted to the safe hands of fellow Spinner Graeme Swann with a low catch.
Pujara who was a thorn in the England side in the 1st innings was out cheaply for 6 as Bairstow took a great diving catch off the bowling of Swann to give England 2 early wickets. "The Little Master" Sachin Tendulkar came in to produce hopefully for the Indian crowd a innings to help India, But Monty would have none of it and for the 2nd time in the match got him LBW with another great delivery.
Kohli was next to go when a mistimed shot of Swann bowling found the SUB fielder Root in the field and straight to him for a measly 7. Yuvraj Singh then was caught at Silly point by Bairstow with Monty getting his 3rd Wicket of the Indians 2nd innings, but there was more to come from Monty.
Dhoni fell to the Masterclass Panasar was producing at Spin bowling as his shot carried to Trott in the slips & India were in Massive trouble with the scorecard reading 92-6!
Ashwin and Gambhir started a mini revival, As Ashwin put on 11 runs scoring the only 6 in the Indians innings. But he too was out to Panasar as skied his shot high high in the air and Sami Patel got under it and caught it. England were in dreamland now, Gambhir was the only batsman to come out with any credit as he carried taking the attack to the bowlers. Swann got on in the action as his delivery spun quicker and had extra bounce to deflect off the glove of Harbhajan Singh and easily to Trott in the slips for another catch making it 8 down for India.
Panasar completed his Wicket haul with 6 as he got Khan out when he tried to hit it out the ground but hopeless smashed it up in the air and Prior kept his eye on the ball and caught it for 9 down and England were on the verge of a great Victory in the Sub-Continent. England thought they`d wrapped up the game when an Inside edge off Ohja bat and pad found it`s way to Swann, but Umpire Aleem Dar wasn`t interested..but it was just delaying the inevitable. Swann then got the Indians Final wicket as his ball hit Gambhir in line..but seemed like he had nick on it first. But as India don`t like DRS they couldn`t review the wicket and so INDIA Collapsed to 142 ALL OUT.
England openers came out to knock the 57 off they needed for victory, And they comfortably got them inside in just over half an hour and needed just 9.4 overs to get the job done. As the winning runs came from a ball that Compton missed at and ran off to the boundary for 4 giving them a Great victory in Mumbai and Level the series at 1-1 with 3 to go with the next Test being played in Kolatta. Though England may change a couple of players for that Test.
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