England a massive 319-run victory in 2nd Test, 2-0 lead 4 test Series

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Published on: Aug 01, 2011

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Five wickets by Tim Bresnan and a tame surrender by the Indian batsmen handed England a massive 319-run victory in the second Test and a 2-0 lead in the four-Test series here at Nottingham on Monday.

Five wickets by Tim Bresnan and a tame surrender by the Indian batsmen handed England a massive 319-run victory in the second Test and a 2-0 lead in the four-Test series here at Nottingham on Monday.

Only SachinTendulkar (56) put up some resistance in an otherwise spineless performance by the visitors against a ruthless England side. Chasing an improbable 478 to square the series, the famed Indian battling lineup folded up on the fourth day itself, with Bresnan's 5/48 being the chief architect of England's big win.

James Anderson (3/51) took three wickets, while star England all-rounder and 'Man of the Match' Stuart Broad bagged two in an Indian innings where the only two other batsmen to reach double figures were Harbhajan Singh (46) and Praveen Kumar (25).

India are themselves to blame for this damaging loss after they let the advantage slip away twice: first when they allowed Broad and Graeme Swann to rescue England from 124/8 in the first innings and secondly when they lost their last six first innings for 21 runs to let England come back in the match.

Earlier, resuming at the overnight score of 441 for six, England added another 103 runs from 19.2 overs before being bowled for a massive 544.

After the initial exploits of Ian Bell (159), Kevin Pietersen (63) and Eoin Morgan (70), the seventh wicket pair of Matt Prior (73) and Bresnan (90) added salt to India's injury by stitching 119 runs of just 20 overs.

Praveen Kumar was the most successful Indian bowler in England's second essay, scalping four wickets for 124 runs while Ishant Sharma (2/131) and S Sreesanth (2/135) snared two wickets apiece.

England now need to maintain their 2-0 margin in the series to displace India as the number one Test team while India will have to reduce the margin to less than two to maintain their number one status. ICC's Test rankings are announced after the series.

India's biggest defeat in terms of runs had come against Australia at Nagpur in 2004-2005 when they had lost by a huge margin of 342 runs.

However, against England this was India's biggest defeat in terms of runs, surpassing 247-run loss at Lord's in 1990.

India had earlier lost the first Test at Lord's by a huge 196 runs.

The third Test of the series begins in little over a week's time on August 10 at Edgbaston.

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