Plan by India&England for Fourth Day at Nagpur

The Indian first innings continued from the overnight score of 297/8 this morning. R.Aswin&Pragyan Ojha arrived at the crease They took almost 20 minutes to reach 300 ,the first step needed under the circumstances.Aswin as far as possible kept strike for himself.As soon as they completed 300 Runs,they opened up &started scoring a bit faster.The changed tactics, it seemed, well observed by Captain Alistair Cook who also introduced a new plan of going slow with the game as was obvious from the tactics he employed to discuss with his bowlers very frequently. In the meantime Aswin&Pragyan Ojha continued with scoring.Howeve,Monte Panesar struck on time to put an ed to their patnership by removing Ojha when the score was 317 in the 141st over of the Innings. It was a lucky breakthrough for Monte Panesar.It was not the same expertedness he had shown at Mumbai&Kolkatta.Ojha was out because of a batsman's error .Instead of playing to the Legside of the left hander ,he played on to the offside. Unfortunately the ball took an inner edge &played on to the stumps.Thus he got the just one wicket after bowling 52 overs coceding 81 runs. unlike Mumbai&Kolkatta, his dividend for such a long efforts was just one wicket!! After the fall of Ojha Ishant Sharma joined Aswin .He managed just 2 runs but gave support to Aswin who scored29 runs. When they reached 326 just 4 runs short of England,Dhoni all of a sudden declared , perhaps, after noticing the slow tactics of Alistair Cook&in view of the fact that one hour had already elapsed in scoring just 29 runs. England resumed their second knock. Captain Alistair Cook&NRD Compton started slowly .Cook took 93 balls to score just 13 runs out of a total of 48 runs when he fell well caught by Dhoni Bowled Aswin. It was a better dividend or rather a bonus for the Indians to get Captain Cook out so early.What a paradoxical wicket it was! England continued with Comton&Trott who joined him.Compton fell at 81 in the 47th over trapped in front by Pragyan Ojha. K. Pietersen joined Trott.They together added 13 runs when Pietersen fell to a clever ball from Ravindra Jadeje which he misread to shatter his off stump. England score read 94/3.Pragyan Ojha had dismissed him in the first innings also. Thereafter,Ian Bell joined Trott &continued until stumps finishing at a good score of 161/3.Trott remained not out with 66&Ian Bell with a handy24 runs. Thus the third session belonged to England. Until&Unless England makes a sporting declaration with a lead of maximum 225 runs,there does not appear to have any reasonable chance for India to level the series Or otherwise,India should dismiss England earlier.It is a remote probability for such a happening except a miracle taking place during the second knock of England! So tomorrow is yet another Day on which anything could happen. The only consolation left behond India is the popular saying"Cricket is a Game of Glorious Uncertainty!! SreedharanMundanat 16th December 2012 20-20Hrs(IST)