England tour of India, Jan 25 - March 11

[Arthur Crabtree]

Same with the lower order.

Ashwin coming in at nine shouldn't be allowed.

[Arthur Crabtree]

20 partnership just at the wrong time.

[Arthur Crabtree]

Looks like this is going into the last day.

[Arthur Crabtree]

Wonder if India fancy the extra 30m.

[Arthur Crabtree]

Hartley!

Takes 5

[GarlicJam]

my goodness Pietersen is an annoying commentator. I did not think that I'd ever hear worse than Ian Healy, but without a doubt, Pietersen takes that from him.

Although, Warner has potential.

[Arthur Crabtree]

BBC live was saying England are dead on their feet. So I guess that was against the run of play.

[Arthur Crabtree]

I thought KP was busy saving the rhino.

[Arthur Crabtree]

Ashwin gets stumped off Hartley

[sussexpob]

Hard to see how India can save this. Late order showing how badly the top 6 did

[sussexpob]

There we go...Hartley with 7, all over

Got to rank up there with England's greatest single test.wins..What a performance second innings

[Durhamfootman]

Way hey!

Must have been a bit twitchy at the end, but that must rank as one of the great wins.

Pope’s innings was both magnificent and key, and Hartley repayed Stokes’ faith in spades

[meninblue]

England batted 64.3 overs in first tinnings. Certainly they have to bat more overs in test match unlike batting slightly more than full quota of ODI overs in test.

Then India batted for 121 overs - should have batted 150 though given various factors. Just shouldnt allow opponent to bat double the overs you have batted. The lead is going to be significant.

More importantly England shoudnt be losing a test in India in which they won the toss. Its going to be incredibly tough winning when Rohit wins the toss and India bats first.


England batting needs to be much much better. Hopefully as the first test is about to be done by end of Day 4 and England players slightly better used to conditions by end of this tesrt, the second test will be competitive.

Congrats to Team England and England supporters here.

England won the toss, yet looked like losing team, but Ollie played a master class to win the test.

India needs batsmen who can score 150+ or 200 + which we have witnessed so many times from the likes of Sehwag, Sachin, Rahul, Chet. I hope those from current team prove that they also have equal temperament, grit, determination and fitness to play 150 to 180 overs or make massive test innings scores. Like i said on Day 2, i feel India batted 30 overs less in first innings when the bowling was bad and there was a solid start. This was nowhere near a severe turning and sharp turner wicket. This test Indian batting lineup is certainly weaker than what was seen during the Fab4 in their prime. So it seems that the Indian team is also more reliant on toss to win even at home, and more importantly against team like England which won in India in 2011, in Pakistan last year and may win series agaim this time if they win more tosses.

[Gingerfinch]

Blimey, given the opposition and where it is, does this beat Headingly 81?

[Arthur Crabtree]

Astonishing win. Scarcely credible they could come back from such a deficit, in India.

Obviously, without Hartley's transformation, that would have been a dull defeat. What a story!