Day 4 - Spinners trio with excellent batting & bowling contribution presented good win and India led 2-0 in 5 match series

29th Nov 16

England resumed 4th day play with 78/4 and all out scoring 236 runs adding more 158 runs of previous day score. JE Root and H Hameed played good sensible cricket for England and contributed very well 78 and 59* runs respectively. CR Woakes also made 30 runs for England. Mhd Shami, RA Jadeja and J Yadav picked up 2 wickets each. R Ashwin took 3 wickets with excellent bowling spells.

Following small target of 103 runs, India could not made batter start and lost M Vijay for a duck. PA Patel and CA Pujara took charge in hand and played confident cricket. PA Patel completed his 50 runs just in 39 balls in a come back match after 8 years in test cricket. Pujara left the field contributing 25 runs. Skipper V Kohli joined with PA Patel for performing formalities to get few runs and PA Patel did well till end with 67 unbeaten runs and presented superb win by 8 wickets on 4th day of the match. India led 5 match series 2-0. Ravindra Jadeja Declared man of the match for his all round performance with 90 runs and 4 wickets in match.

Score Day 4 : Eng 283 & 236 and Ind 417 & 104/2 India won by 8 wickets

Day 3 - India on Front Foot with Ashwin, Jadeja and J Yadav's fifties & excellent bowling, England 78/4 trail by 56 runs in 2nd inning

28th Nov 16

India resumed 3rd day play with 271/6 and all out scoring 417 runs adding more 146 runs in previous day score. India's lower orders performed well and No.7 to No.11 batsmen contributed record 220 runs with No.7, 8 and 9 batsmen smashed fifties with sensible batting performances. Ashwin, Jadeja and J Yadav made fifties for India to gave healthy lead of 134 runs over England in 1st inning.

BA Stokes bowled very well for England and picked up 5 wickets. AU Rashid took 4 wickets. Other bowlers failed to pcked up any single wicket. India bated well and gave England good lead of 134 runs in 1st inning.

England started 2nd inning with skipper AN Cook and JE Root as Hameed has little bit injury in his fingure. Both played slow cricket and tried to stick on the pitch till and of the day, But AN Cook once again became victim of R Ashwin and bowled scoring 12 runs. Newt coming batsman MM Ali also followed skipper of Ashwin's excellent ball contributing just 5 runs. Wicketkeeper batsman JM Bairstow brilliently cought by PA Patel of J Yadav's turning ball scoring 15 runs. In the last over of day BA Stokes made his way of Ashwin 's googly ball and put England in big trouble. England were 78/4 (38.0 ov) trail by 56 runs with 6 wickets remaining at stumps day 3.

Score Day 3 : Ind 417 and Eng 283 & 78/4 (38.0 ov) trail by 56 runs with 6 wickets remaining

Day 2 - Kohli, Pujara and Ashwin's fifties gave India little bit advantage with 271/6 in 1st inngs

27th Nov 16

England resumed 2nd day play with 268/8 and all out scoring 283 runs adding more 15 runs in previous day score.Mohammed Shami picked both 2 wickets in the morning. India made good start with M Vijay and PA Patel initially but Vijay went early scoring 12 runs. PA Patel look good in his come back game but fall scoring 42 runs. CA Pujara and skipper V Kohli took the charge in hand played good cricket till tea time. Pujara completed his half century before tea with good cricket.

After tea time Pujara merely threw his wicket attempting a big stroke on turning ball of Rashid. AM Rahane came in middle and gone for a duck lbw out by Rashid's googly ball. Debut man Karun Nair also left the field in quick succission by superb throw of Buttler and got run out in his very 1st test inning scoring just 4 runs. Ashwin joined with skipper and put break on wicket falling. Kohli once again played useful inning for India and contributed well 62 runs before left the field.

In later half of the day RA Jadeja and R Ashwin played good inning and put India on 271/6 at stumps day2. RA Ashwin smashed his 3rd fifty of the series with 57 runs unbeaten along with RA Jadeja's 31* runs. AU Rashid trouble India's bastmen well and picked up 3 wickets. BA Stokes also bowled well and took 2 wickets.

Score Day 2 : England 283 & India 271/6 (84.0 ov) trail by 12 runs with 4 wickets remaining in the 1st innings

Day 1 - JM Bairstow with 89 runs led England after top orders sudden crumble before lunch

26th Nov 16

3rd test of 5 match series has been started at PCA Stadium, Mohali today. Visitor team England won the toss and elected to bat first. The decision not gone in favor of England and lost four wickets before lunch scoring just 87 runs. Wicketkeeper batsman JM Bairstow and JC Buttler took the charge in hand and played good cricket in middle for England. JC Buttler played welll and contribted 43 runs before gor out by RA Jadeja. JM Bairstow anchor inning well and contributed useful 89 runs before left the field in later half of the day. England were 268/8 at stumps day 1.

Score Day 1 : Eng 268/8 ( 90 overs)

Man of the match :- RA Jadeja (Ind)
Series - India led 5 match series 2-0.
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