Dog stops play in cricket match between India and England

Unable to gain much movement with the first ball of the match, he nevertheless took three of the four wickets to fall – bouncing out M Vijay with a sharp short ball and persuading Ajinkya Rahane to nick an outswinger – and managed to gain unsafe swing with the second new ball.

Anderson was England’s best bowler, taking three for 44 in his first match for three months following a shoulder injury.

Yet Anderson has fought back and after initially being left out of the squad for this five-match series, has returned ahead of schedule. The jury is still out if dropping experienced legspinner Amit Mishra was justified but the Indian team management has rung in changes after a below par showing in the first Test. But as he looked to attack the next ball, it once again took an edge and went to Stokes, who took an excellent catch to get the big fish.

“It was great to be back”, he said. “Even if we see in the last Test match, Rajkot, day one it was really good to bat on, even day two was good to bat on in Rajkot”, Pujara said.

“Getting back out there with the lads was a great feeling and to get back on the board with a couple of wickets even better”.

The prospect of having to face a huge first innings total on a potential turning wicket against the likes of Ravichandran Ashwin and Ravindra Jadeja must have been telling on the players.

Given the hosts form when they played New Zealand, albeit on much trickier surfaces, you would have to expect they could run through England if they get enough assistance from the wicket.

“We lost those early wickets but Virat and I spoke about building a partnership”.

This time, after scoring his second ton against England, he just lifted his bat, acknowledged the crowd and went about the task to grind the visitors down.

“They have gone back to the Bangladesh mode of bowling too many short balls, too many full tosses”, said Vaughan.

They had thrown open the gates at the Dr YS Rajasekhara Reddy ACA-VDCA Cricket Stadium for its inauguration as the 111th Test venue and while the resulting crowd looked a third of the 25,000 capacity, the majority of those to take advantage of the offer got exactly what they came for. He overcome the challenge of countering James Anderson and Stuart Broad with a stunning counter-attack that left Alastair Cook clueless after Kohli won yet another toss and made a decision to bat first. His average of 29.05 in 11 Tests against England can hardly be considered impressive and he seemed hell bent on improving on that count in this series.

However, India captain Kohli remains unbeaten overnight on 151.

Umpires called for an early tea interval due to the interruption by the dog as the staff and stewards chased the dog, trying to get him out of the field.

The duo stitched together a 226-run stand to propel India to a big first innings score. Anderson, though, didn’t take long to strike.

Shortly afterward, Kohli brought up his 14th Test hundred off 154 deliveries.