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Watch free live streaming of India vs England 2nd Test Day 5. India need eight wickets on last day of the match while England need 318 more runs to win. England lost openers Haseeb Hameed and Alastair Cook on day four while Joe Root is unbeaten on five. Star Sports 1 (English) and Star Sports 3 (Hindi) will telecast the match live. The free live online streaming of the match will be available on HotStar.
Indian spinners were thwarted by a splendid display of ultra-defensive batting by England before the hosts edged ahead dismissing rival skipper Alastair Cook on an engrossing fourth day of the second cricket Test.
It was fascinating final two sessions where Cook (54, 188 balls) and 19-year-old Hameed (25, 144 balls) added 75 for the opening stand but more importantly consumed 50 out of the 150 overs that England require to bat in their second innings. Cook showed enormous patience en route his 53rd Test half-century which came off 172 balls — his slowest in longest format. Also Check- India vs England 2nd Test Day 4- As it Happened
The captain’s resistance finally ended when Ravindra Jadeja trapped the skipper leg before with the final delivery of the day. England require 318 runs more on the final but they would be very happy if they could even manage a draw.
India have three full sessions today to grab the remaining eight wickets and take a 1-0 lead in the five-match series. If Cook’s experience came to the fore, Hameed defied his age and showed temperament of highest order batting for more than three hours. Hameed faced 24 overs en route to his 25 before Ashwin gave the breakthrough at the fag end of the day as the ball kept low trapping the right-hander plumb in-front. Also Check- India vs England 2nd Test Day Full Scorecard
In desperation for something special, Ashwin finally delivered a shooter right in middle and leg in his 13th over of the day, and there was no way that Hameed could keep it away as he was trapped right in front for an agonising end. The opening partnership also provided a study in contrast to their struggling Indian counterparts as the strategy was just to block and delay the inevitable. Inputs PTI.
India: Murali Vijay, Lokesh Rahul, Cheteshwar Pujara, Virat Kohli, Ajinkya Rahane, Ravichandran Ashwin, Wriddhiman Saha, Ravindra Jadeja, Jayant Yadav, Umesh Yadav, Mohammed Shami.
England: Alastair Cook, Haseeb Hameed, Joe Root, Ben Duckett, Moeen Ali, Ben Stokes, Jonny Bairstow, Adil Rashid, Zafar Ansari, Stuart Broad, James Anderson.
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