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The second Test is being played between India and England at Lords. In the match, England finished the day at the end of the third day with 357 runs on 6 wickets, and the hosts had got an important lead of 250 runs. On the second day of the match affected by rain, the first innings of the Indian team was reduced to 107 runs.

Today England started playing ahead of it.And England's score was 396, then the seventh wicket fell, and with that England declared their innings.

  • Chris Woakes impressive century

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In the second innings of England, Mohammed Shami gave India the first breakthrough by playing 11-run Keaton Jennings with LBW. In the next over Ishant Sharma got Cook (21) caught by Dinesh Karthik and then sent back to the pavilion. Olly Pop, who started her Test career against India through the Lord's Test, disappointed in the first innings. Hardik Pandya lbw was dismissed on his personal score of 28 runs. Captain Joe Route to England Shami made his prey and LBW was out for 19 runs. Mo. Shami gave Jos Buttler the lbw to 24 runs while giving India the fifth success. Bairstow scored a brilliant 93 runs. He was caught by Hardy Pandya at the hands of Dinesh Karthik.

  • First 2 day story...

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If you like The first day of this Test match was completely washed away due to rain. The second day England won the toss and invited India to bat first. On the second day, the first innings of the Indian team was reduced to 107 runs In the first innings of this match affected by rain, England's fast bowlers have not seen any breaks with Indian batsmen. England's fast bowlers James Anderson, Chris Woakes two, Stuart Broad and Sam Kourran took one wicket each and the Virat army just put it in 35.2 overs. The second day's game was also affected due to the rain and had to be stopped several times.

Indian batters disappointed everyone with their batting


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India's start in the first innings was very bad, in the first over, opener Billy Bowden became the victim of the hosts fast bowler James Anderson. On Anderson's superb ball, he was clean bowled. Anderson then gave another blow to India, leaving KL Rahul out. Rahul scored 8 runs and was caught out caught by wicketkeeper. Cheteshwar Pujara was run out after just one run. They run out of pop. Indian skipper Virat Kohli scored 23 runs in 57 balls. He got Chris Woakes out caught by Jos Buttler. Hardik Pandya scored 11 runs and he gave his catch to Chris Buttler at the score of Chris Woakes.

Dinesh Karthik made just one run and got clean-bowled on Sam Kruen's delivery. James Anderson showed Ajinkya Rahane a path to pavilion Anderson's catch by Rahane caught by Alastair Cook He scored 18 runs off 44 balls. Kuldeep Yadav was cleaned by James Anderson and he did not even open the account. Stuart Broad bowled Ashwin to LBW for 29 runs. Anderson took his fifth wicket as Ishant Sharma and got him out of the LBW. Mo. Shami remained unbeaten after scoring 10 runs.


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India's start in the first innings was very bad, in the first over, opener Billy Bowden became the victim of the hosts fast bowler James Anderson. On Anderson's superb ball, he was clean bowled. Anderson then gave another blow to India, leaving KL Rahul out. Rahul scored 8 runs and was caught out caught by wicketkeeper. Cheteshwar Pujara was run out after just one run. They run out of pop. Indian skipper Virat Kohli scored 23 runs in 57 balls. He got Chris Woakes out caught by Jos Buttler. Hardik Pandya scored 11 runs and he gave his catch to Chris Buttler at the score of Chris Woakes.

Dinesh Karthik made just one run and got clean-bowled on Sam Kruen's delivery. James Anderson showed Ajinkya Rahane a path to pavilion Anderson's catch by Rahane caught by Alastair Cook He scored 18 runs off 44 balls. Kuldeep Yadav was cleaned by James Anderson and he did not even open the account. Stuart Broad bowled Ashwin to LBW for 29 runs. Anderson took his fifth wicket as Ishant Sharma and got him out of the LBW. Mo. Shami remained unbeaten after scoring 10 runs.

  • Two changes in the Indian team

In the second Test, England won the toss and decided to bowl first. Two changes were made in this team for the Indian team. Cheteshwar Pujara and Kuldeep Yadav replaced Umesh Yadav and Shikhar Dhawan in the playing eleven. There were 2 changes made in the England team. Ben Stokes was replaced by Chris Volks, while the 20-year-old Olly Pope also debuted his Test debut. He was included in the team instead of David Malan.

India's Playing XI - Murali Vijay, Lokesh Rahul, Cheteshwar Pujara, Virat Kohli, Ajinkya Rahane, Dinesh Karthik, Hardik Pandya, Ravichandran Ashwin, Kuldeep Yadav, Mohammed Shami, Ishant Sharma.

England's Playing XI - Alastair Cook, Keaton Jennings, Joe Root, Olly Pope,Johnny Bairstow, Jos Buttler, Chris Woakes, Sam Kouran, Adil Rashid, Stuart Broad, James Anderson

  • India is 1-0 behind

In the first Test match played in Birmingham, the Indian team did well against England, but despite this brilliant effort, Kohli and Company had to face defeat. Except Virat Kohli in most Test matches, most batsmen disappointed Fans with their performance. In this test series, Team India had to face defeat by 31 runs in the first match. This is India's closest defeat on England's land.


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