The visiting English team found itself at a loss when it failed to stop the Indians mounting tons of runs in the first test being played at Ahmadabad from 15-19 November 2012.
Indian batsmen really took a heavy toll of the English bowlers and hit every delivery with ferocity and super power. Pujara was the highest scorer who hit 206 and remained not out till the match was declared at at 521. Other batsmen who added to his effort to take the score to over 500 were Sehwag 117, Yuvraj 74.
Although Swann took five wickets, but they did not come cheaply and Swann really had to work it out to curtail the Indian runs, but the wickets cost him 144 runs.
And when it came to the visitors, their performance was far from perfection and could be termed as utterly dismal when they lost three wickets till stumps.Except for the new English captain Cook who was still holding on at 22, Compton, Anderson (the nightwatchman) and Pieterson were back to the pavillion for scoring peanuts. Aswin claiming two of the three fallen wickets for 21, restricted the Brits for 41 for three for the day in the 18 over played.
Saturday tomorrow is Day-3 and a difficult day ahead for the visitors. Would they be able to take stock of their dismal start and surprise Indians? I very much doubt.
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