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 114-8

    Foakes 27, Leach 4

    Leach, perhaps feeling like peak Lara after that fine shot in the previous over. now tries to sweep Ashwin out of the rough. The ball ends up at slip. The crowd think it's a catch. No bat involved.

  2. Daniel Norcross
    BBC Test Match Special commentator on The Cricket Social

    Leach did well to hit that because it was another ball which exploded off the pitch.

  3. Eng 113-8

    Jack Leach! England's bespectacled number 10 has pumped Axar Patel down the ground for a one-bounce four.

  4. Daniel Norcross
    BBC Test Match Special commentator on The Cricket Social

    If India did enforce the follow-on it's not inconceivable that the game could be over by lunch tomorrow.

  5. Eng 108-8

    Trail by 221

    Leach blocks out three overs from Ashwin. What's the problem?!

  6. Can Bangladesh pull off victory against West Indies?

    It's bubbling up nicely in Mirpur, where Bangladesh are 101-4 chasing 231 to beat West Indies in the second Test and draw the series.

    Tamim Iqbal made 50 for the hosts, who still have a sniff of victory in this game despite conceding a first-innings deficit of 113.

    Scorecard

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  7. Eng 107-8

    My response to that would be: does a Test have to be five days just because it can? Tests used to be timeless of course. There is no reason they have to last five days. We just seem to want them to.

    Is variety not good?

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    John Petrie: Preparing a pitch for home advantage is part and parcel of the game. However they should still be prepared for a five-day match. We are looking a three-day game here, so sad after the epic of last week.

  9. Phil Tufnell
    Former England spinner on The Cricket Social

    Foakes has played beautifully so perhaps Jack Leach has come to help keep him company.

  10. Daniel Norcross
    BBC Test Match Special commentator on The Cricket Social

    It was surprising that they didn't send out Broad. He likes to have a hack.

  11. Eng 107-8

    Ben Foakes is still there and has been joined by Jack Leach with England eight down. Foakes is happy to take singles it seems.

  12. Eng 106-8

    Big fan of this Tuff Justice. The plot is getting more and more adventurous.

    Ravichandran Ashwin is back with ball in hand. The massacre continues.

  13. Tuff Justice

    Text 81111

    Tuff Justice - Back to the Future. Tuffers accidentally discovers time travel fixing a faulty bowling machine that fires off at 88mph. He proceeds to meddle in Cricket history in England's favour. Famous interventions include the Kasprowicz glove and smearing the ball in butter for Lyon's missed run out.

    Chris, Bedfordshire

  14. So to England's Valentine's Day disaster. Thousands of you are still getting touch with us regarding the pitch.

    In my view there is absolutely nothing wrong with preparing a piece to suit your bowlers, as some have suggested. Nothing.

    You can debate if it has spun too soon but, for me, England should have bowled better and batted better.

  15. If HR are reading this, I'll be in touch.

  16. All that after I was nice to him earlier? Stephan is a cruel, cruel man.

    I was actually organised. I just forgot to write the card.

  17. I'm done for now, here's the romantic Matt Henry.

  18. Right, he's ready now.

    Don't let him know we've been talking about him.

  19. To Matt

    You are a wonderful man. You deserve the best Valentine's Day.

    All my love,

    Matt

    xxx

  20. I don't know why he's taking so long, he's only sending it to himself.