England-India second test: Sports stopped due to rain; India score 15/3, Cheteshwar Pujara run out

England decided to bowl to India by winning toss in the second Test at Lord's on Friday. India scored 15 runs in the loss of 3 wickets in 8.3 overs. Virat Kohli is not out with 3 runs Due to rain, the game was stopped again. Earlier, after 6.3 overs the game was stopped due to rain. The day before the rain was not a game. Toss happened on the second day.

India did not start well. Opener Murali Vijay was dismissed without opening the account on the 5th ball of the first over. He bowled them with James Anderson. KL Rahul, who came to open with him, could not do anything special He became the victim of Anderson by making 8 runs. Anderson got him out caught by wicketkeeper-batsman Johnny Bairstow on the first ball of the 7th over of the match. Cheteshwar Pujara was dismissed as the third wicket. He was run out by Oli Pope on 1 run.

Both teams made two or two changes: Cheteshwar Pujara and Kuldeep Yadav were back in the Indian team. Pujara was replaced by Shikhar Dhawan and Kuldeep in place of Umesh Yadav. At the same time, England also made two changes. Instead of Ben Stokes, he took Ole Pope in place of Chris Volks and David Malan. This is the first test of the Pope.

Teams:

England: Joe Root (captain), Alastair Cook, Kiton Jennings, Johnny Bairstow (wicketkeeper), Jose Butler, Oli Pope, Chris Woakes, Adil Rashid, Sam Curran, James Anderson, Stuart Broad.

India: Virat Kohli (captain), Murali Vijay, KL Rahul, Cheteshwar Pujara, Ajinkya Rahane, Dinesh Karthik, Hardik Pandya, Ravichandran Ashwin, Kuldeep Yadav, Ishant Sharma, Mohammad Shami

England ahead in the five-Test series: England are 1-0 ahead of the five-Test series by winning the first match. In the Lord's figures, the host team's weight is huge. Here England played 17 Test matches against India. There were 11 wins, two losses and four draws. The winning rate in the Lord's winning team is 55%, but India can never win a Test here by winning a toss. In 2014, India defeated England in the captaincy of Mahendra Singh Dhoni. Four years ago, there were Murali Vijay, Ajinkya Rahane, Cheteshwar Pujara, Shikhar Dhawan, Ravindra Jadeja, Ishant Sharma, Mohammed Shami and Virat Kohli. They are also in the current team. They have a good experience of English conditions. In the Lord's Test in 2014, Murali scored 95, Rahane scored 103 and Jadeja in 68 in the lower order.