England v India, 2nd Test: England struggling at 125 for four at tea

London, July 18 (IANS): England were struggling at 125 for four in their first innings at tea against India on the second day of the second cricket Test at Lord's here on Friday.

Garry Ballance was batting on 51 and Moeen Ali on six as England still trail by 170 runs. India, in their first innings, scored 295 runs.

Pacer Bhuvneshwar Kumar was the most successful Indian bowler bagging three for 34.

India (first innings, overnight 290/9)

Murali Vijay c Ballance b Plunkett 24

Shikhar Dhawan c Ballance b Anderson 7

Cheteshwar Pujara b Stokes 28

Virat Kohli c Prior b Anderson 25

Ajinkya Rahane c & b Anderson 103

Mahendra Singh Dhoni c Prior b Broad 1

Ravindra Jadeja lbw b Ali 3

Stuart Binny lbw b Anderson 9

Bhuvneshwar Kumar b Broad 36

Mohammed Shami c Cook b Stokes 19

Ishant Sharma not out 12

Extras (b 17, lb 10, nb 1) 28

Total (all out in 91.4 overs) 295

Fall of wickets: 1-11 (Dhawan, 2.5 overs), 2-48 (Vijay, 21.3), 3-86 (Kohli, 31.1), 4-113 (Pujara, 41.5), 5-123 (Dhoni, 47.2), 6-128 (Jadeja, 50.4), 7-145 (Binny, 57.2), 8-235 (Kumar, 81.6), 9-275 (Rahane, 86.4)

Bowling

James Anderson 23-7-60-4

Stuart Broad 22-5-79-2

Liam Plunkett 15-5-51-1

Ben Stokes 17.4-5-40-2

Moeen Ali 14-2-38-1

England (first innings)

Alastair Cook c Dhoni b Kumar 10

Sam Robson c Dhoni b Kumar 17

Garry Ballance batting 51

Ian Bell c Jadeja b Kumar 16

Joe Root lbw Jadeja 13

Moeen Ali batting 6

Extras (b 1, lb 9, w 1, nb 1) 12

Total (for four wickets in 53 overs) 125

Fall of wickets: 1-22 (Cook, 10.1 overs), 2-31 (Robson, 14.1), 3-70 (Bell, 31.4), 4-113 (Root, 46.3)

Bowling

Bhuvneshwar Kumar 17-7-34-3

Mohammed Shami 11-4-25-0

Ishant Sharma 12-4-21-0

Stuart Binny 7-0-24-0

Ravindra Jadeja 5-0-9-1

Murali Vijay 1-0-2-0

Match details

Umpires: Kumar Dharmasena (Sri Lanka) and Bruce Oxenford (Australia)

TV umpire: Richard Illingworth (England)

Match referee: David Boon (Australia)