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Advantage England as India stagger at 117/7
Sunday November 25, 2012 06:41:51 PM,
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Mumbai: Monty Panesar's second career 10-wicket haul had India reeling at 117/7
at the close of play on the third day of the second cricket Test
against England at the Wankhede Stadium here Sunday.
At the close of play, Gautam Gambhir and Harbhajan Singh were
batting on 53 and 1, respectively.
After bowling out England for 413, who resumed the day at 178/2,
India lost seven wickets in the last session of the day, finishing
with a lead of 31 runs with three wickets in hand and two days of
play left.
Earlier in the day, skipper Alistair Cook and comeback man Kevin
Pietersen struck their respective 22nd hundreds to get England
past India's first innings score of 327.
Cook struck 13 boundaries and a six to make a solid 122 while
Pietersen batted with his usual fluidity to score a splendid 186
at a strike rate of 79.82. Pietersen's innings included 17
boundaries and one six.
At 382/5, England looked to extend the lead. However, the Indian
spinners struck when needed and the visitors lost the last five
wickets in a span of 31 runs.
The England lower order could not hold out against the Indian spin
trio of Pragyan Ojha, Ravichandran Ashwin and Harbhajan Singh, who
took all but one wickets.
Ojha took his fifth five-wicket haul of his career as he ended
with figures of 5/143. Ashwin and Harbhajan ran through the
tail-enders taking two wickets each.
Coming out to bat in their second innings, India looked to stave
off the challenge of the English spinners on a turning track.
But Panesar struck for England as he picked up opener Virender
Sehwag for 9, who is playing his 100th Test, with the score
reading 30 for no loss. Thereon, India consistently kept losing
wickets with none of the batsmen, apart from Gambhir and Ashwin,
reaching double figures.
Cheteshwar Pujara (6), Sachin Tendulkar (8), Virat Kohli (7),
Yuvraj (8), Dhoni (6) all perished without making an impact as the
Indian batting order collapsed.
Gambhir tried to play the anchor's innings scoring his first Test
half-century since January.
Panesar ended the day with 5/61, to add to his first innings tally
of 5/129, while Swann had figures of 2/39.
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