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News Sports Cricket Live Reporting: Ind vs Eng: England 219/6, 2nd test, Day 2 at stumps

Live Reporting: Ind vs Eng: England 219/6, 2nd test, Day 2 at stumps

London: England finished at 219 for six in the first innings at stumps on the second day of the second cricket Test at Lord's here Friday, trailing India by 76 runs.Liam Plunkett was batting on



DRINKS BREAK

07:11 PM: Eng 91/3 after 38 overs

Binny to Root, takes the thigh bad behind square. 1 leg bye

Single taken through backward point

The first ball edged by Ballance through gully to third man for FOUR.

Gary Ballance facing him

Stuart Binny comes in next to bowl

07:07 PM: Eng 85/3 after 37 overs

another maiden over.

Ishant Sharma to Joe Root

07:02 PM: Eng 85/3 after 36 overs

Ballance worked off the stumps through square leg for two runs

This time he cuts through point for FOUR more

Kumar to Ballance

06:58 PM: Eng 79/3 after 35 overs

single off the last ball keeps Ballance on strike

Ballance drives that through straight mid wicket and they ran four runs. Good running between the wickets

Root tries to cut but got an edge and it was short off first slip. Single taken

Ishant Sharma continues

06:53 PM: Eng 73/3 after 34 overs

Maiden over by Kumar to Ballance.

06:50 PM: Eng 73/3 after 33 overs

Maiden over.

Ishant Sharma starting with his 10th over to Joe Root

06:46 PM: Eng 73/3 after 32 overs

Root gets off the mark straight away. He punched through mid wicket for easy three runs

Joe Root joins Gary Ballance in the middle

England 70/3

Bhuvneshwar Kumar takes the third wicket. Ian Bell was trying to leave that one. But it touches the glove and went straight to Jadeja at third slip. Umpire raises his finger. He departs for 16.

Kumar to bowl his 15th over

06:38 PM: Eng 70/2 after 31 overs

Ballance flicked off leg stump, wide of the leg gully for a single

Appeal for lbw by Ishant and Co. but that pitched outside leg stump. Umpire shakes his head

06:34 PM: Eng 68/2 after 30 overs

Single taken on the last ball and Ballance keeps the strike

Short ball by Kumar and Ballane upper cuts it over third man for a boundary

Kumar to Ballance

06:30 PM: Eng 63/2 after 29 overs

Another three runs to Ballance through the deep mid wicket region

Ballance nudges it down to fine leg for FOUR. leg byes signaled by the umpire

Ishant Sharma to Gary Ballance

06:25 PM: Eng 56/2 after 28 overs

Maiden over by Kumar to Ian Bell

06:22 PM: Eng 56/2 after 27 overs

Single off the last ball

Ian Bell to face Ishant Sharma

06:17 PM: Eng 55/2 after 26 overs

Three runs to Bell through the gap in covers

Kumar to Ian Bell

06:13 PM: Eng 52/2 after 25 overs

Single for Bell behind the square on the leg side

Big shout for lbw but it was an inside edge struck onto the pads. No says umpire

The batsmen are in the middle. Ian Bell has the strike and Ishant Sharma to start the bowling attack

Second session of the day is about to get underway as players are coming back on the field