England's Day

Today ,though Indian spinners claimed 2 important wickets,belonged to England.KPietersen&CaptainCook

were allowed to build&set up to a healthy total of178/2 at stumps.

It seems these Cookies wont crumble easily

The day started interestingly for India.Dhoni continued with his trusted BowlersSahir Khan,Ojha&Aswin

until24 overs 52/0 for theb visitors.Then he introduced the Turbanator who bowled few overs steadily

&economically


all of a sudden Dhon,it seems,decided to give rest to Aswin&reintroduced Ojha In the second ball of his

second ball of his first over in the nrw spell,Ojha struck a severe blow by trapping in front to remove

Compton at 66/1Compton walked back desperately to the pavilion.

Jonathan Trott reached crease  as number3 .He was also removed  by Ojha shortly after for a duck

well caught by Sehwag off an outside edge.England were 68/2.

Therafter until stumps it was rather an exhibition of Agony for India as Cook&Pietersen started building up.

A few firm appeals for LBW were rejected by the Umpires adding insult to injury to the Indians.

India bowled a total of 65 overs to establish the partnership between Cook&Pietersen.

Englans looks all set to make a mammoth Score with Bell yet to step in.

But the morning dews at Wankhede,could help to write a different story  tomorrow, asSahirKhan&

company might be expecting  to  work overtime .

In any case,England  not making a mammoth score  over 500,India could still hope for a victorious

second Test match in Mumbai, the birthplace of Indian Cricket.In other words, India should ensure that

England is not allowed to make more than 173 runs tomorrow.

All the Best to  England&India

                                               SreedharanMundanat
                                                24th November2012
                                               19.05 Hrs(IST)