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. Matt Henry will be taking over soon, but he's asked for some time to write a Valentine's Day card.

  2. Get Involved

    Text 81111

    Let's give some credit to India's bowlers. Their spinners have exerted control as well as wickets. Compare that to Moeen's figures. Both saw the pitch before the toss - why did England not pick three spinners?

    Des in Stafford

  3. Tea - Eng 106-8

    Trail by 223

    That's tea. Up until 15 minutes ago, it was looking like being a reasonable session for England.

  4. Michael Vaughan
    Former England captain on The Cricket Social

    England are trying to be busy and do the right things but it's very difficult on this kind of surface. The pitch is a stinker for Test cricket. I think spin is great entertainment for the game but I think this pitch has done too much too soon.

  5. wicket

    WICKET

    Stone c Rohit b Ashwin 1 (Eng 106-8)

    And another one falls.

    It's tame from Olly Stone, not that you can blame a number nine playing only his second Test. Ravichandran Ashwin is turned to mid-wicket, when Rohit Sharma takes a simple catch.

  6. Sir Alastair Cook
    Former England captain on The Cricket Social

    I can't see why you would enforce the follow-on. It would be the only way India could lose the game. Imagine England somehow got to 300 in their second innings and India had to chase 70. That's the only way they could lose.

  7. Eng 106-7

    Olly Stone is England's number nine. He's a capable lower-order batsman, but was it worth sending in the swiping Stuart Broad?

  8. Sir Alastair Cook
    Former England captain on The Cricket Social

    I don't want to call it a soft dismissal but that wasn't a ball that was ragging or unplayable.

    Moeen was just unsure of how much it was going to spin. That was the mind playing tricks on Moeen.

  9. wicket

    WICKET

    Moeen c Rahane b Axar 6 (Eng 105-7)

    Ah. Any optimism there may have been about a mini England fightback is sucked away.

    Moeen Ali is gone, undone by a non-turner from Axar Patel. It's straight on from round the wicket from the left-armer, Moeen edges into the thigh of Rishabh Pant, with the ball looping to diving slip Ajinkya Rahane.

    We've reached the tail.

  10. Tuff Justice

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    Nathan Silverwell: Tuff Justice: Ashes to Ashes. Tuffers reconstructs the burnt bails after linking them to the custard cream theft of 1997. On revealing his own prints, he's banged up but makes do on the prison 2nd XI, alongside Merv Hughes, serving time for crimes against top lips.

  11. Eng 104-6

    He'd be just fine if he had Jules at the other end. There are around 10 minutes to go until tea. Eight wickets fell in the first session, only two this afternoon.

  12. Get Involved

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    Joe Shillaker: The key question is... how would Cam from Married at First Sight play this innings?

  13. Eng 103-6

    Siraj finally concedes a run, serving up a leg-stump half-volley that Foakes sweetly tucks to the mid-wicket fence. I'll keep saying this, but the big difference in these two innings is how both sides got through the first 30 overs. You can tell less is happening now because India have asked for the ball to be checked. It's fine, carry on.

  14. Tuff Justice

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    Cooky would be a suspiciously innocent Midsummer Murders farmer.

    Dan, Oxfordshire

  15. Sir Alastair Cook
    Former England captain on The Cricket Social

    I don't think Kohli wanted to review but Ashwin was imploring him to do it. The captain reluctantly did it.

  16. Not out

    Eng 97-6

    Too high, leg side.

    All of India's reviews burned.

  17. Sir Alastair Cook
    Former England captain on The Cricket Social

    I think it's spinning too much.

  18. India review

    Eng 97-6

    This looks unlikely.

    Ashwin has ripped one back at Foakes. Surely it's done too much?

  19. Tuff Justice

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    Chief Inspector Boycott suspends Tuffers for his unconventional approach and brings in his granny, who bears an uncanny resemblance to Miss Marple. She wraps the case up before lunch.

    Pete in Sheffield

    James Vince would be the young up and coming PC, who shows so much promise but doesn't get it just right when it matters.

    Chris

  20. Eng 97-6

    Danger returns. Ashwin.