2016 -17 England Tour of India - India Vs England Second Test @ ACA-VDCA ground ,Visakhapatnam Thursday Nov 17 -21,2016

Head to Head in Test Matches

5- Match Test Series Results

First Test @ Rajkot Nov 09-13,2016
England 537 and 260/3 Declared
India 488 and 172/6(Target 310 Runs)
Match Result - Match Drawn
MOM - Moeen Ali(England)for his 117 and 2/85(31 Overs)and 1/47(19 Overs)
Series Result - 5- Match Test Series 0-0

Second Test @ Visakhapattinam Nov 17-21,2016
Scorecard
India 455 and 204
England 255 and 158(Target(
Match Result - India won by 246 Runs
MOM - Virat Kohli(India)for his 167 and 81 Runs
Series Result - India lead the 5- Match Test Series 1-0





Teams (from)

India: Virat Kohli, Murali Vijay, Gautam Gambhir, Cheteshwar Pujara, Virat Kohli, Ajinkya Rahane, R Ashwin, Wriddhiman Saha (wk), Ravndra Jadeja, Amit Mishra, Umesh Yadav, Mohammed Shami, KL Rahul, Ishant Sharma, Hardik Pandya, Karun Nair and Jayant Yadav.

England: Alastair Cook (c), Haseeb Hameed, Joe Root, Ben Duckett, Moeen Ali, Ben Stokes, Jonny Bairstow (wk), Chris Woakes, Adil Rashid, Zafar Ansari, Stuart Broad, James Anderson, Gary Ballance, Gareth Batty, Jos Buttler, Steven Finn and Jake Ball.

K L Rahul, who suffered a hamstring injury during the first Test against New Zealand in Kanpur, made 76 in a Ranji Trophy match for Karnataka against Rajasthan and his return will boost a batting line-up which is missing Rohit Sharma down the order.

K L Rahul, who made his Test debut against Australia in 2014, has so far played nine matches and scored 562 runs including three hundreds

"The All India Senior Selection Committee has decided to add India batsman K.L. Rahul to the Indian squad ahead of the second Test of the Test Series - 2016 between India and England to be played at Vizag from November 17," the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) said in a statement.

England have a fit-again James Anderson in the squad.

England Captain Alastair Cook has returned to his masterful best becoming the first Englishman to get past 1000 Test runs in India en rout to his 130 in the second innings, while Root proved his consistency by laying the foundation in the first innings with his 124.

The famed Indian spinners did not dominate in Rajkot where the battle was won by the England troika of Moeen Ali, Zafar Ansari and leg-spinner Adil Rashid who returned with a match-haul of seven wickets.

Questions are being raised about Ravichandran Ashwin's ability to get wickets on a good track after finishing with underwhelming match figures of 3/230.

Despite the drawn result in the first Test @ Rajkot, four of England's batsmen got centuries and spinners had a larger share of 13 wickets

Day One Thursday Nov 17,2016

India  won the toss and elected to bat 

India have made two changes, bringing in opener K.L. Rahul in place of Gautam Gambhir, while Jayant Yadav will be making his debut in this match. He has replaced Amit Mishra.

For England, James Anderson returns in place of Chris Woakes, who has been left out as part of the rotating management of the quick bowlers.

Teams:

India: KL Rahul, Murali Vijay, Cheteshwar Pujara, Virat Kohli (capt), Ajinkya Rahane, Ravichandran Ashwin, Wriddhiman Saha (wk), Ravindra Jadeja, Jayant Yadav Mohammed Shami, Umesh Yadav.

England: Alastair Cook (capt), Haseeb Hameed, Joe Root, Ben Duckett, Moeen Ali, Ben Stokes, Jonny Bairstow (wk), Zafar Ansari, Adil Rashid, Stuart Broad, James Anderson

Cheteshwar Pujara is going through the form of his life. On Thursday, he hit his third straight Test ton in as many matches as England again felt the heat of this Gujarat batsman's prowess

Pujara took 184 balls to reach his 10th Test century. He had scored 101* in the last match of New Zealand series in Indore, while he hit 124 in the first match of the England series in Rajkot.

En route to the ton, Pujara scored 3000 runs in Tests in just 67 innings. He joined Sachin Tendulkar and Rahul Dravid as the fifth fastest Indian to achieve the feat. Sehwag scored 3000 runs in 55 innings.

Pujara finally got out on 119 when he edged to Jonny Bairstow off James Anderson

Pujara and Captain Virat Kohli scored 226 Runs for the 3rd wicket bettering their 222 Runs Vs South Africa @ Johannesburg

Virat Kohli remain unbeaten at 151 Runs

7 Tons in 19 Test as Captain

2 Tons Vs England and now has scored 14 Tons overall in Test Cricket

It was Virat Kohli's 50 th Test Match and he emulated -

Sunil Gavaskar 221 Vs England @ Oval in 1979

VVS Laxman     178 Vs Australia @ SCG in 2003-04

Virat Kohli       151*  Vs England @ Vizag in 2016-17

G R Vishwanath 124 Vs West Indies @ Chennai in 1978-79

Polly Umrigar     112 Vs Pakistan @ Delhi in 1960-61

Kapil Dev              100* Vs West Indies @ Port of Spain in 1982-83

Scorecard

India 317/4 in 90 Overs with Virat Kohli 151* and R Ashwin 01* at the crease

Day Two  Friday Nov 18,2016

Virat Kohli's 167 is the fourth highest by an Indian captain against England in Tests in India – the three highest innings being Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi’s 203 not out at Delhi in February 1964; Mohammad Azharuddin’s 182 at Kolkata in January/February 1993 and Sunil Gavaskar’s 172 at Bangalore in December 1981

It was his second highest in Tests at home behind the 211 vs New Zealand at Indore in October 2016.

Virat Kohli’s batting average of 68.00 this year in Tests is his highest ever in a calendar year – his tally being 816 in 13 innings (9 Tests). His overall average as captain is quite impressive – his aggregate being 1712 (ave.59.03)

Ravichandran Ashwin's batting average vs England is superb – his tally being 509 (ave.50.90) runs in 13 innings, including four fifties

Overall, Ashwin has managed four centuries and eight fifties in Tests. He enjoys superb batting record when he has batted as number six batsman in Tests, aggregating 324 in five innings, including two hundreds and a half century.

# Ashwin’s average in the first innings of Tests this year is superb – 61.14 while scoring 428 in seven innings, including two hundreds and two fifties.

#Ravindra Jadeja’s second duck vs England is his sixth in Tests. His duck at Visakhapatnam is his first in 14 Tests at home.

# Joe Root has recorded his 24th fifty in Tests – his fifth vs India. He is averaging 50-plus this year in Tests – 1167 runs at an average of 50.73, including three centuries and seven fifties, in 14 Tests.

# Root has recorded eight fifty-plus innings (three centuries + five fifties) against India – the most by him against an opponent in Tests.

# Moeen Ali’s strike rate of 47.6 while claiming 25 wickets at an average of 26.68 in seven Tests is the second best by a spinner in Tests vs India (minimum 25 wickets) – the best being England’s Hedley Verity – 38 wickets (ave. 16.18) in six Tests.

Mohammed Shami is the second bowler to dismiss Alastair Cook as bowled in Tests in Asia – the first being Irfan Pathan (Nagpur, March 2016)

Scorecard

India 455/10 in 129.4 overs with Mohammed Shami 07*

England 103/5  in 49 Overs with Ben Stokes 12* and Jonny Bairstow 12* at the crease

Day Three Saturday Nov 19,2016

Scorecard

England 200/10 in 84.2 Overs

India 98/3 in 34 Overs with Virat Kohli 56* and Ajinkya Rahane 22* at the crease 

India's overall lead by stumps was an imposing 298

Day Four Sunday Nov 20,2016

India were all out for 204 in 63.1 Overs with Jayant Yadav 27* at the crease
Wicket Takers (England)
Stuart Broad                     4/33(14 Overs)
Adil Rashid                        4/84(24 Overs)
Moeen Ali                            1/09(3.1 Overs)
James Anderson                 1/33(15 Overs)
England had to score 405 to win this test match
India were dismissed for 204 in 63.1 overs at lunch after resuming their second innings at 98-3. Besides Kohli's 81, it was Mohammad Shami (19) and Jayant Yadav (27 not out) who helped India set England an imposing 400-plus total.

In pursuit of an uphill victory target of 405, England finished the day at 87/2 with Joe Root  05* at the crease, thanks to a dogged defiance from skipper Alastair  Cook 54 Runs and young Haseeb Hameed 25 Runs, who brought back memories of Hashim Amla and AB de Villiers' 'batathon' at the Feroz Shah Kotla, last year 

Statistical Highlights

Virat Kohli's tally of 248 runs (167+81) is the fourth highest by an Indian captain in a Test match - the top three being Sunil Gavaskar (289 - 107+182 not out) at Kolkata; 278 (205+73) at Mumbai - both vs West Indies in 1978-79 and Virat Kohli's 256 (115+141) vs Australia at Adelaide in 2014-15.

Umesh Yadav's first duck vs England is his fourth in Tests. He has registered his first duck in 13 innings under Virat Kohli's captaincy.

Alastair Cook has taken 171 balls to reach his fifty - his slowest half-century in Tests, eclipsing the 164-ball fifty (twice) - in the course of his 50 off 165 balls vs Australia at Trent Bridge, Nottingham in 2013 and 94 off 278 balls vs Sri Lanka at P Sara Oval, Colombo in 2012.
Cook's eighth fifty vs India is his 53rd in Tests.

Cook's batting record in Tests in India is quite impressive - his tally being 1073 (ave.59.61) in 10 Tests, including five centuries and four fifties.

Cook's tally of 14 fifties (six centuries and eight fifties) is a new record for most fifty-plus innings for England vs India in Tests, bettering the 13 (five hundreds + eight fifties) by Graham Gooch.

Cook has posted 11 fifty-plus innings (2 centuries + 9 fifties) in the fourth innings, emulating an England record, held by Mike Atherton (2 centuries + 9 fifties). Just four batsmen have recorded more fifty-plus innings in the fourth innings - West Indians, Shivnarine Chanderpaul (13) and Chris Gayle (13), South Africa's Graeme Smith (13) & India's Sunil Gavaskar (12).

Stuart Broad (4/33) has recorded his best bowling figures in a Test innings in 16 Tests in Asia, eclipsing the 4 for 36 vs Pakistan at Dubai (DSC) in February 2012.

Besides the above, Broad's only other four-wicket instance in Tests in the subcontinent is 4 for 47 vs Pakistan at Abu Dhabi in January 2012.

Ravichandran Ashwin's tally of 53 wickets (ave.22.62) in nine Tests is the second highest by a bowler in Tests this year behind the 54 (ave.17.53) in eight Tests by Rangana Herath.

Adil Rashid's excellent bowling performance is best vs India in Tests, eclipsing the 4 for 114 at Rajkot in the first Test of the current series.

Haseeb Hameed (25 off 144 balls) became the fourth opening batsman to face 100 balls or more in the fourth innings before attaining the age of 20, joining Pakistan's Zahid Fazal (18 years 53 days), Bangladesh's Nafees Iqbal (19 years 75 days) and Archie Jackson (19 years 149 days).


 Day Five Monday Nov 21,2016
Virat Kohli led-India defeated England by 246 runs in the second Test to take a 1-0 lead in the five-match series. Indian spinners once again rose to the occasion as R Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja and Jayant Yadav picked six of the eight wickets that fell on Day 5.

Resuming play on 87/2, India picked a wicket as early in the sixth over of the day when Ashwin removed Ben Duckett once again

It was the start of another collapse for England as none of the batsmen looked convincing enough against quality Indian spin

Joe Root (25) and Jonny Bairstow (34) were the only two English batsmen who scored in double figures
Wicket Takers(India)
R Ashwin                        3/52(30 Overs)
Jayant Yadav                3/30(11.3 Overs)
Mohammad Shami      2/30(14 Overs)
Ravidnra Jadeja            2/35(34 Overs)

Scorecard
India 455 and 204
England 255 and 158
Match Result - India won by 246 Runs
MOM - Virat kohli(India)for his 167 and 81
Series Result - India lead the 5-Match Series 1-0
The margin of India's win, their second largest (by runs) in Tests against England - they won by 279 runs at Headingley in 1986