For England, the win over India by 10 wickets must be a great day to rejoice as successive test match losses were taking a heavy toll of the English morale for quite sometime now.
Winning the toss, India could only muster 327 with their new magic boy Pujara scoring 135 and that is all any of the Indians could do. Panesar struck the Indian batsmen, including Pujara, and sent five of them back to pavilion in the first innings for 129.
England in their second innings, looked comfortable even against the Indian bowlers, who have otherwise been a scare so far and scored 413, with Cook 122 and Pietersen 186. As against Panesar, it was Ojha from the hosts who dismantled five English batsmen in a tit for tat move for 145.
The second Indian innings was a disaster. Except for Gambhir's 65, no other Indian batsman reached even 10 except Aswin who scored 11. And the entire Indian squad was back in pavillion for mere 142 - Panesar once again taking a heavy toll of 6 Indians for just 81 runs.
For Englishmen, reaching the balance score of 58 was just peanuts as Cook (18) and Compton (30) reached the target with amazing 10 extras.
The second of the four test matches series thus ended on the fourth day in the visitors favour, levelling the series 1-1 for now.
India should now finally start agreeing that something is wrong with the side. It was not the imaginary green tops in Australia and England. The side's quality has eroded from the time they were No. 1
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