Fighting century by Dravid
LONDON, July 23 (AFP) A fighting century by one drop bat Rahil Dravid
helped India to avoid follow on on the third day of their first Test
against England at Lord’s here today.
Dravid batted with great courage and responsibility in a bid to help
India to avert follow on after the tourists lost three key wickets with
the addition of only 24 runs, including the prize wicket of Sachin
Tendulkar (34). The departure of Sureish Raina for a duck in the 57th
over saw India reeling at 183 for 5. But Dravid shared a vital 57-run
partnership for the fifth wicket with M.S. Dhoni before the Indian
skipper was out for 28.
India, in reply to England’s first innings total of 474 for 8
declared, were 282 for 8 shortly before close. At the wicket were Dravid
(100 n.o off 186 balls with 14 boundaries) and Praveen Kumar (17 n.o).
Sachin Tendulkar's latest bid to become the first batsman to score 100
international hundreds ended in failure when he was dismissed for 34 in
the first Test against England at Lord's here on Saturday.
The 38-year-old Tendulkar came into this match having scored 51 Test
centuries and 48 in one-day internationals -- both records.
He had looked in good touch while stroking six fours before fast
bowler Stuart Broad, who has taken all three India first innings wickets
to fall so far, produced a good length delivery that Tendulkar could
only edge low to Graeme Swann at second slip. It was scant reward for
Tendulkar who was rested from India's recent tour of the West Indies,
and spent much of the interveninh time practising at Lord's or the
capacity 28,500 crowd who had come hoping he would crown the 2,000th
Test of all-time and the 100th between England and India with his ton of
tons.
Score Board
ENGLAND - 1ST INNINGS
(overnight: 127-2)
A. Strauss c Sharma b Zaheer Khan 22
A. Cook lbw b Zaheer Khan. 12
J. Trott lbw b Kumar 70
K. Pietersen not out 202
I. Bell c Dhoni b Kumar 45
E. Morgan c Dhoni b Kumar 00
M. Prior c Dhoni b Kumar 71
S. Broad lbw b Kumar 00
G. Swann b Raina 24
C. Tremlett not out 04
Extras (b14, lb8, w1, nb1) 24
Total (8 wkts dec, 131.4 overs, 602 mins) 474
Did not bat: J Anderson
Fall of wickets: 1-19 (Cook), 2-62 (Strauss), 3-160 (Trott), 4-270 (Bell), 5-270 (Morgan),
6-390 (Prior), 7-390 (Broad), 8-451 (Swann).
Bowling: Zaheer 13.3-8-18-2; Kumar 40.3-10-106-5; Sharma 32-5-128-0 (1w); Harbhajan 35-3-152-0;
Dhoni 8-1-23-0 (1nb); Raina 2.4-1-25-1.A. Mukund
INDIA - 1ST INNINGS
(Overnight: 17-0)
A. Mukund b Broad 49
G. Gambhir b Broad 15
R. Dravid not out 59
S. Tendulkar c Swann b Broad 34
VVS Laxman c Trott b Tremlett 10
S. Raina lbw b Swann 00
MS Dhoni not out 04
Extras (b-5, lb-7, w-1, nb-9) 22
Total (five wkts, 62 overs) 193
Fall of wickets: 1-63 2-77 3-158 4-182 5-183
Still to bat: Harbhajan Singh,Zaheer Khan, I. Sharma, P.Kumar. |
