2nd Test: England beat India by an innings and 159 runs at Lord's
India TV Sports Desk | August 12, 2018 23:20 ISTEngland beat India at Lord's in the second Test by an innings and 159 runs to take a 2-0 lead in the five-match series.
England beat India at Lord's in the second Test by an innings and 159 runs to take a 2-0 lead in the five-match series.
Woakes struck his first Test century to guide England to 357/6 and a commanding 250-run lead over top-ranked India.
Despite rain consuming the larger part of play, England started the second Test on a bright note as they bundled out India for 107 in the first innings, courtesy of James Anderson's 5/20.
India suffered a heartbreaking 31-run loss to England as skipper Virat Kohli's heroics went in vain amid yet another abject batting capitulation in a riveting opening Test at the Edgbaston on Saturday.
The defiant Indian captain, who saw his batting colleagues perishing one after another, was batting on 43 and giving him company was a disciplined Dinesh Karthik (18) when the stumps were drawn for the day.
Kohli's 149, which will rank amongst one of the finest hundreds by an Indian batsman on English soil, enabled the visitors to reach 274 thereby bringing down the first innings deficit to only 13 runs.
Joe Root (80 runs off 156 balls, 9x4s) scored an unbeaten 41st Test half-century, but the English innings completely got derailed after his dismissal.
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England had a field time out as they get their revenge by inflicting an all-out on the visitors, thrashing the Men in Blue by 86 runs at Lord's to level the three-match series 1-1.
Kuldeep Yadav was once again the talk of the town after his 6/25 restricted England to 268 and it was Rohit Sharma who knocked up his 18th ton to lead India to victory.
The Indian vice-captain made a target of 199 look ridiculously easy on a small Bristol ground after the visiting bowlers did a commendable job at the back end to restrict the hosts to a sub-par score.
The hosts scored 152 for five in 19.4 overs to overcome India's sub-par total of 148 for five on a Sophia Gardens surface that offered bounce.
KL Rahul's 101* and Kuldeep Yadav's 5/24 powered India to a thumping 8 wicket win over England in the 1st T20I at Manchester to take a 1-0 lead in the three-match series.
India posted a massive 213 for four after being asked to take the first strike and then bundled out the hosts for a mere 70 in 12.3 overs.
India outclassed Ireland by 76 runs in the opening T20 International in Dublin on Wednesday.
Indian players spent time on the nets, practising for the first T20I against the hosts Ireland. They will lock horn on Wednesday at Malahide Cricket Club.
This was the first time that India won a Test match in two days while it has now happened for the 21st time in the 141-year-history of the traditional format.
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