Summary

  • India lead by 249

  • Rohit 25* - survives stumping on 20

  • 15 wickets fall on second day

  • Significant turn on deteriorating pitch

  • India 329: Rohit 161, Moeen 4-128

  • England 134: Foakes 42*, Pope 22

  • Ashwin 5-43, Ishant 2-22, Axar 2-40

  • Second Test, Chennai, day two

  • England lead 1-0 in four-Test series

Live Reporting

Matthew Henry

  1. Eng 24-3

    Kohli doesn't wait for an umpire's decision, running away with the ball held up and a finger pointing. He thinks Lawrence has been caught at second slip. Not out. Settle down.

    The follow-on is still 100-odd runs away.

  2. Time for a Ben Stokes special?

  3. Get Involved

    #bbccricket

    Jack Olsburgh: Game over.

    Garry Joseph: Oh dear, oh dear.

  4. wicket

    WICKET

    Root c Ashwin b Axar 6 (Eng 23-3)

    The hole England were in turns into a bottomless pit. Joe Root is out. The England skipper tries to take the positive approach but he top-edges a sweep to short fine leg as the ball spits from the pitch.

    It's Axar Patel's first Test wicket. Euphoria for India.

    Axar Patel and Joe RootBCCI

  5. Eng 21-2

    Lawrence 1, Root 4

    There's commotion after every ball. This is a different India team to the first Test - the India we expected. Dan Lawrence gets off the mark at the 19th attempt.

  6. Get Involved

    #bbccricket

    Dave: Because it hit the pad and then ballooned into the bat.... shouldn't that be not out if the umpires are going for consistency?

    Ross Gregory: Yesterday that was not out!

  7. Eng 19-2

    Axar Patel, made in Durham, fires the ball into the pitch and watches on like an army general at the explosions at the other end. Root is tentative.

  8. Get Involved

    Text 81111

    This is a horror show. Root to the rescue again? He'll need help.

    Doug in Surbiton, or, as I like to call it, the Stockport of the south.

  9. Spin from both ends. Left-arm spinner Axar Patel is on for the first time.

  10. Eng 17-2

    Lawrence 0, Root 1

    It's over to the skipper once again. Joe Root has hit scores of 180 or more in his last three first innings knocks. If he does it today batting on this then everyone else in the world may as well give up.

  11. Get Involved

    #bbccricket

    Thomas Knights: This is getting ugly very quickly.

  12. wicket

    WICKET

    Sibley c Kohli b Ashwin 16 (Eng 16-2)

    Sibley missed a sweep the ball hit his pad, looped up and then flicked off the back of his bat. It's a pretty unlucky way to fall.

    England are in all sorts of trouble.

  13. Sibley is walking.

  14. India review

    Oh, Ant. I'm sorry.

    Sibley has been caught at leg slip. It was given not out but Kohli has already put his finger up.

    Virat KohliBCCI

  15. Get Involved

    Text 81111

    Dom Sibley teaching me how to trust again on Valentine's Day.

    Ant, London

  16. Eng 16-1

    Trail by 313

    Hmmm, I don't think so Bob. You're not in England unexpected cricket capital.

    Sibley takes another quick single. Never fear, Sibbers is here.

  17. Get Involved

    #bbccricket

    Bob: I'm in Scunthorpe which sounds like Stockport. Does that count?

  18. Eng 15-1

    Trail by 314

    Pant and Kohli are two of the louder keeper-leg-slip combos in world cricket. They yelp away as Lawrence plays with a hint of risk into the leg side. England have just quietened the crowd for now though. A maiden for Ashwin.

  19. Get Involved

    #bbccricket

    Andy Simpson: Sibley racing along like Pant here!!

  20. Eng 15-1

    Sibley 15, Lawrence 0

    Maybe it's because it's Valentine's Day and I'm feeling gooey but I really do have a thing for Ishant Sharma. He's brilliant. Always probing, always in the fight.

    Sibley, meanwhile, is taking on the Rohit role, hitting two boundaries in the over.