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India/England 1st test day 2:
Pujara smashes double century; England 41/3, trail by 480
Friday November 16, 2012 08:12:40 PM,
IANS
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Virender Sehwag regained his touch with a sparkling century, and
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Ahmedabad: Cheteshwar Pujara smashed his maiden
double century to enable India declare at 521 for eight and by the
close of play on the second day of the first cricket Test England
lost three wickets for 41 runs at the Sardar Patel Stadium here
Friday.
Offspinner Ravichandran Ashwin quickly removed debutant Nick
Compton (9) and Jonathan Trott (0) and became the fastest Indian
to pick 50 wickets in Tests and at the other end Pragyan Ojha sent
back night-watchman James Anderson. Ashwin reached the 50-wicket
mark in only eight Tests.
England captain Alistair Cook managed to survive the tense closing
moments of the day's play. He and his remaining batsmen now face a
480-run deficit, the first priority being to get 281 more runs to
avoid a follow-on.
The Englishmen have to cope with Ashwin and Ojha who extracted
prodigious spin from a track deteriorating with each passing hour.
The spotlight was on Pujara before the Indian spinners came on the
scene. The Saurashtra batsman became the 17th Indian to hit a
double century (206 not out). He was well supported by Yuvraj
Singh (74), playing his first Test in a year.
India resumed the day at 323 for four. Pujara and Yuvraj batted
solidly to go for lunch at 410 for four, the pair carrying their
fifth-wicket stand to 127, as England went wicketless in the first
session.
Left-handed Yuvraj, playing his first Test match after battling a
rare germ cell cancer, was in great touch and Pujara, too, batted
fluently.
Yuvraj had only himself to blame for not reaching the
three-figure-mark. He miscued a rank full toss from Samit Patel
and holed out at long on. He hit six fours and two sixes in an
innings of critical value to his career.
Pujara found Ashwin a willing ally to help him reach his double
century in their 66-run seventh-wicket partnership. Pujara
carefully got to the important milestone in only his sixth Test,
hitting 21 well executed fours.
The only positive to come out of the day's play for the English
was Graeme Swann's five-wicket haul. The offspinner, who took all
the four wickets to fall on the first day, removed Indian captain
Mahendra Singh Dhoni to record the 13th five-wicket haul of his
career.
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