The second match of the five-Test series between India and England is going to start on the famous Lord's ground in London. Rain started here morning before the match began. After losing the first Test, Team India will have to return to the path of victory on the strength of the responsible performance of their batsmen. The world number one team came close to take the lead but missed by 31 runs. Despite these close victories, the England team is not in a position to take India lightly.
Lords have been raining since morning. One hour before the start of the match covered on the field. There is a little cooling in the weather. Rain has altered all the equations formed before the day of this match. It was a lot of heat till Wednesday. It estimated that Team India could go into the field with two spinners. But after the change of the weather from the morning things have changed quite a bit. In this case, there is every possibility of fast bowlers being dominated in this match.
Team India won the second Test of the 2014 England tour. Ishant hit seven wickets in the second innings in a tough contest. Apart from this, Ajinkya Rahane has scored a hundred in this match. Team India gave England the target of 319 runs in this match. By the end of the fourth day's play, 105 runs lost by making four wickets, from which the form Alastair Cook and Ian Bell dismissed by Ishaan Sharma. After that, the route and Moin Ali did not let any wicket fall in the first session on the last day of the game, and England's score was up to 173 for lunch.
After this, Ishant performed his career best and took 7 for 74 runs. Thanks to Ishant's spell, England reduced to 233 runs, with India winning the match by 95 runs. Thanks to Ishant's performance, he got the title of Man of the Match on Lord's ground. This time it also expected that Ishant will be able to repeat performances like Lord's.
India: Virat Kohli (Captain), Murali Vijay, KL Rahul, Cheteshwar Pujara, Ajinkya Rahane, Dinesh Karthik, Hardik Pandya, R Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja, Kuldeep Yadav, Ishant Sharma, Umesh Yadav and Mohammad Shami.
England: Joe Root (captain), Alastair Cook, Catten Jennings, Janie Bairsta, Jos Buttler, Oliver Pope, Adil Rashid, Sam Curran, James Anderson, Stuart Broad, Chris Woakes / Moin Ali.
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