England's second innings(first test)

England’s second innings began on a good note as both Cook and Strauss batted well and forged a near century partnership of 95 runs when Irfan Pathan striked with the wicket of Strauss who was four runs short of a well made half century.Ian Bell soon followed him as he edged a delivery from Irfan Pathan to straight into the hands of wicketkeeper Dhoni.


At 97/2 the match could have gone either way as another wicket or two would have exposed the England middle order, as Peitersen played some attacking cricket to pull
England out of trouble as he and Cook added some quick and important runs which had a demoralizing effect of Indian bowlers.

Indians were also undone by a wrong decision from the third umpire who gave Pietersen not out but television replays showed the other way as he was extremely lucky to survive there.

Indians were also guilty of missing as many as 5 chances as let England off the hook once again, the ground fielding was very poor as even dependable Kaif dropped a sitter to him in the outfield.

And finally When Pietersen was out ,England had crawled to a relatively safer position and then it was the turn of Rookie opener to hog the limelight as he scored his maiden hundred on his debut test match as he and Collingwood finished the day unbeaten with the England score reading 297/3 giving them the overall lead of more than 367 runs.