England's Tour of India 2012

India 273-7 Close Englands day after losing the toss, Anderson bowled brilliantly,backed up well by Monty wno got through 35 overs.half centuries for Gambhir & Tendulkar.

A very good day for England. Anderson with 3 wickets on the day dismissed Tendulkar for the 8th time in Tests and moves level with Muralitharan for having dismissed Tendulkar most often.

Decent day for England, lets hope for 3 quickies in the morning. Was wondering if England were going to be really brave and leave Bairstow in, but I suppose they had to go for the experience.

We will know how good India's total is once England have batted on it.
If Cook, Pietersen and Prior fail I wonder where the runs will come from .
Good bowling display by England though .

Very true snooks,Bell & Trott are long overdue abig score.This is the longest tail England have fielded for some time,the top 7 will have to make the bulk of the runs.

A couple more wickets for Monty this morning........ a 50 from the dangerous Dhoni,India are all out for 316. Will be interesting to see what sort of a total that is after Englands innings. thanks boomerangutangangbang(bloody hell thats tough to type when your tired)

I must be tired too, just deleted my previous post by mistake,oops.The wicket looks good to bat on,England shouldn't have any problem going past India's total.

At the close of play the scorecard looks good for England as they reply to India's 316 all out.

AN Cook* not out 136
NRD Compton lbw b Ojha 57
IJL Trott not out 21
Extras 2
Total (1 wicket; 73 overs) 216

To bat KP Pietersen, IR Bell, SR Patel, MJ Prior†, GP Swann, MS Panesar, JM Anderson, ST Finn

Yes an excellent day for England today......... Captain Cook especially had a good day where he became the leading century maker for England with 23 (although K.P is only 1 behind on 22)and he became the youngest batsmen to pass 7000 test runs.hopefully the runs will continue to flow tomorrow and England can build a substantial lead.

Records galore for Cookie, how many more can he break in his career. Would be SPOTY 2012 by a mile, if it wasn't for that thing in the summer.