India vs England, 2nd Test Match: India wins by 246 runsstrong/strong

Not only that, he scored crucial 35 and 27 in the first and second innings respectively, at the No. 9 spot, that helped India give England a 400-plus target. Ben Duckett’s poor series continued when he fell without scoring to Ashwin, caught behind miscuing a sweep shot against the world’s top-ranked bowler after England resumed on 87-2.

Northamptonshire batsman Ben Duckett’s place in side is under scrutiny after making just 18 runs in three innings against India and struggling technically against the hosts’ spin attack.

India captain Virat Kohli, meanwhile, poked fun at England’s conservative approach and lack of conviction at chasing down a notional 405 as they chose instead to bat out the best part of five sessions.

“And in the fourth innings to bat 100 overs, we set our stall out and obviously it means the margin of victory is bigger, but we made India work very hard”. We needed to get more than 450 runs to put pressure on the opposition. That’s exactly what we did. From there on, the bowlers are (always going to be) on top.

“He looks made for Test cricket. You saw that here”. Stay calm on the wicket, try to spend as much time on the wicket.

“We know the ability that they have but we are not thinking about the past”. We had to dig it out.

England defeated India 2-1 in 2012 after losing the first Test and Kohli said his team would not be complacent when they go to Mohali for the third match starting Saturday.

India were able to break the opening stand late on the fourth day, an R Ashwin grubber pinning Hameed lbw and then, with what became the final ball of the day, Ravindra Jadeja dismissed Cook. He singled out the 26-year-old Jayant for high praise.

“Full credit to Broady, in particular, as I think his injury is a lot sorer than he showed everyone in that India second innings”. “Yes, definitely that’s why we play five bowlers, we don’t play only spinners, we play fast bowlers as well, because we understand their contribution is also important”, Kohli said. We need to start off in our Test career like that. Showed great character. He stuck it out in the end as well.

Root was the next man to fall, Mohammed Shami angling one in with the new ball and rapping England’s vice-captain on the pad. I’m really happy for him.

While speaking in a post-match press conference, Kohli was critical of England’s second-innings performance and said that his side were expecting a high-class defensive batting from the visitors.

“The rest of the bowers have been playing Test cricket for a while”. He asked for the field he wanted and knew which lines to bowl.

“Even the reds of the ball and the speed that he bowled with”. So the batsmen know they can not afford to make mistakes. The first Test against Sri Lanka in the three-Test series in 2015 is Kohli’s only loss since he officially took over the captaincy from MS Dhoni. Zaheer Khan was very good at bowling off-pace and would then surprise you with a really quick inswinger. We are not the side which thinks what happened the last time they came or the last time we went there. We respect England. We want to continue with this nice momentum.

“Their captain has over 100 Tests and they have a couple of other players”.