The visiting England cricket team to India plays its second test match against the hosts at at Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai from Friday, 23 November 2012 today till 27 November.
The visitors may be utterly demoralized after their first test defeat at the hands of the Indians at Ahmadabad The Brits found themselves completely helpless at the hands of the Indian spinners who took a heavy toll of their batsmen.
India's emerging batsman Pujara was a big surprise for the visitors, and perhaps for the Indians as well and they now seem to be banking more on him in the remaining three test matches. After their first test victory, the home team is being heavily favoured to win the remaining three tests - unless the visitors recoil and come up with something they haven't shown or tested as yet.
Mumbai pitch bounces well and its early morning moisture is helpful for the seamers. It was here that England won in 2006 and even dismantled the home team for 100 in their second innings. But that was then - as for now, the Englishmen have not been good in test matches and the home crowd behind the Indians will definitely keep them at a loss.
Recently, India has wonthree of the five test matches, while England has won none, lost three and drawn two. Not a healthy stats for the visitors and analysts find repititon of their past performance in the second test too.
The opposing squads are as under:
India
MS Dhoni*†, R Ashwin, G Gambhir, Harbhajan Singh, Z Khan, V Kohli, PP Ojha, CA Pujara, AM Rahane, V Sehwag, I Sharma, SR Tendulkar, M Vijay, UT Yadav, Yuvraj Singh
England
AN Cook*, JM Anderson, JM Bairstow, IR Bell, TT Bresnan, SCJ Broad, NRD Compton, ST Finn, SC Meaker, EJG Morgan, G Onions, MS Panesar, SR Patel, KP Pietersen, MJ Prior†, JE Root, GP Swann, IJL Trott
The match is scheduled for Friday, 23 November 2012 to 27 November, starting 04:00 GMT daily at Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai.
If you are one of the fans located at different destination and miss the chance to visit the stadium to watch your favorite team, You can now watch the match live on your laptop or desktop computer, FREE, provided you have an internet connection, from the links given below:
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