Unwell Trott departs as England lose their 6th wicket

Zeecric Bureau

Trent Bridge: Injured Trott’s stay at the crease proved to be a short affair lasting only 10 deliveries as he went back to the dressing room without making any significant contribution with the bat.

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He was caught at slip by Dravid of a Praveen Kumar’s outswinger.

England are now looking at their tail-enders for about 50-60 runs but with Stuart Broad yet to come, expect anything.

Eoin Morgan departed quickly after Ian Bell as India claimed the 5th wicket of England. Morgan played a breezy inning of 70 runs coming in just 88 deliveries.

Ian Bell’s stay at the crease finally came to an end with the centurion edging Yuvraj Singh to be caught by Laxman at first slip.Ian Bell with an excellent knock of 159 has put England firmly in the driver’s seat and England are looking good to take a healthy lead. It seemed the run out incident spurred up the English team as Eoin Morgan and Ian Bell turned the heat on India propelling England to a score past 300 with a healthy run rate of four.

As Dhoni and his men marched back in after tea break, few sitting on the ground would have anticipated what was about to happen.

Ian Bell came in practicing shots along with Eoin Morgan that meant Dhoni had withdrawn the dramatic run-out appeal just before the tea session.

A Bizarre turn of events at Trent Bridge seemed to have brought an end to an outstanding innings from Ian Bell as he was adjudged run out just before tea.

Praveen Kumar made a rather comical attempt at preventing a boundary after Morgan flicked one to deep square leg. He managed to cut it off and threw it back at the keeper’s end.

The batsmen oblivious to the turn of events nonchalantly took the attempt to be a failure assuming it to be a boundary as the crowd cheered on for Kumar’s attempt as Morgan strolled down the pitch.

However, at the other end, Abhinav Mukund took the bails off and Indian team appealed for the run out.

On-field Umpires referred it for the referral and Bell was adjudged run out.

Sreesanth brought the much needed breakthrough for the Indian team as he got Pietersen edged one to Dhoni after offering a rather loose shot.

Pietersen scored 63 runs and along with Ian Bell build up a partnership that threatened to take the game away from India.

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