NOTTINGHAM: India captain Virat Kohli was out for a golden duck in the initial Test amid a collapse that saw England terrific James Anderson take 2 wickets with succeeding deliveries on Thursday’s second day at Trent Bridge.
Kohli was caught behind off Anderson by wicket-keeper Jos Buttler one round after Cheteshwar Pujara fell to the exact same mix for 4.
India had actually been in complete command at 97-0 in respond to England’s meagre first innings 183 however after that shed 4 arches for 15 runs either side of lunch as they dropped to 112-4.
By the time negative light and then rainfall combined to produce an early coating to the day’s play, India were 125-4– a deficit of 58 runs.
One consolation for India was that remembered opener KL Rahul was still there on 57 not out after being reprieved on 52 when Dom Sibley went down a guideline slip catch. Rishabh Pant was unbeaten on 7.
Celebrity batsman Kohli was undone by a great Anderson delivery that raised as well as relocated late to take the edge on its way via to Buttler.
The round before Anderson, previously wicketless in the innings, had number 3 Pujara caught low down by Buttler for 4.
Ajinkya Rahane made it through the hat-trick when Anderson strayed down the leg side, however England’s all-time leading Test wicket-taker still had figures of 2-15 in 13.4 overs at stumps.
Rahane, then the non-striker, was quickly out for 5 anyway when, having been left stranded when Rahul triggered and after that quit, he was run out by Jonny Bairstow’s direct hit from backward point.
Rahul, having completed a 128-ball fifty consisting of 8 fours, ought to have been Anderson’s third gate of the day yet Sibley knocked down a catch off an outdoors side mosting likely to his left at 2nd slip regardless of getting both hands to the ball.
Anderson began his 14th over but might only manage one round prior to the umpires took the players off the area for negative light.
With rainfall dropping, play did not return to once again with Anderson then taking care of one more ball before a fresh shower.
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The umpires got play going again at 5:00 pm (1600 GMT), with Anderson bowling two even more spheres only for a fresh ruptured of rain to stop play once again, with two rounds left in an over that had started more than two-and-a-half hours previously.
India had been in command for almost one ball of the early morning’s play after resuming on 21-0.
Both Rahul and Rohit Sharma blunted England’s assault with self-displined ability.
But on the stroke of lunch, Sharma succumbed to 36 when, in what seemed a gap in concentration, he pulled a surprise brief ball from the Ollie Robinson to Sam Curran at fine leg.
Scoreboard
ENGLAND (1st Innings) 183 (J.E. Root 64; J.J. Bumrah 4-46, Mohammed Shami 3-28).
INDIA (1st Innings, overnight 21-0):.
R.G. Sharma c Curran b Robinson 36.
K.L. Rahul not out 57.
C.A. Pujara c Buttler b Anderson 4.
V. Kohli c Buttler b Anderson 0.
A.M. Rahane go out 5.
R.R. Pant not out 7.
ADDITIONALS (B-5, LB-3, NB-8) 16.
COMPLETE (for four wkts, 46.2 overs) 125.
FALL OF WKTS: 1-97, 2-104, 3-104, 4-112.
TO BAT: R.A. Jadeja, S.N. Thakur, J.J. Bumrah, Mohammed Shami, Mohammed Siraj.
BOWLING (to-date): Anderson 13.2-7-15-2; Broad 11-1-45-0 (3nb); Robinson 15-5-32-1 (3nb); Curran 7-1-25-0 (2nb).
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