India’s First Wicket In First Innings Of 2nd Test, England’s Anderson Dismissed Murali Vijay On Zero.
England has not won any test since 2011 in Lords, then they defeated India by 116 runs. Kohli captained in 37 tests, there were some changes in Team 11 in every test. India’s fast bowler Ishant Sharma took 7 wickets at Lord’s Ground in 2014.
England, on Thursday, decided to bowl first by winning the toss against India in the second Test. India did not start well on the second day. England Fast Bowler James Anderson bowled Murali Vijay on the fifth ball of the first over. India has scored 4 runs in the 4th Over on the loss of one wicket. KL Dravid and Cheteshwar Pujara are playing on zero.
The first day’s game was canceled due to rain. Even the toss could not be done. Cheteshwar Pujara and Kuldeep Yadav came back in Indian Team. Shikhar Dhawan and Kuldeep were included in the team instead of Umesh Yadav. At the same time, England also made two changes. Ben Stokes is replaced by Chris Woakes and David Malan is replaced by Ollie Pope in the team. This is the first test of the Pope.
Teams:
England: Joe Root (captain), Alastair Cook, Keaton Jennings, Johnny Bairstow (wicketkeeper), Jos Buttler, Ollie Pope, Chris Woakes, Adil Rashid, Sam Curran, James Anderson, Stuart Broad.
India: Virat Kohli (captain), Murali Vijay, KL Rahul, Cheteshwar Pujara, Ajinkya Rahane, Dinesh Karthik, Hardik Pandya, Ravichandran Ashwin, Kuldeep Yadav, Ishant Sharma, Mohammed Shami.
England is 1-0 ahead of the five-Test series by winning the first match. In the Lord’s statistics, the host team’s position is huge. England played 17 Tests against India here. There were 11 wins, two losses, and four draws. The toss winning team’s success rate at Lords is 55% but India won the toss here and never won the Test. India had defeated England in the captaincy of Mahendra Singh Dhoni in 2014. Four years ago, there was Murali Vijay, Ajinkya Rahane, Cheteshwar Pujara, Shikhar Dhawan, Ravindra Jadeja, Ishant Sharma, Mohammed Shami and Virat Kohli in the Team. These all are in the current team. They have a good experience of English conditions. In 2014 Lords Test, Murali scored 95, Rahane scored 103 and Jadeja scored 68 runs in the innings was played.