{"id":34750,"date":"2021-02-14T11:05:42","date_gmt":"2021-02-14T12:05:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=34750"},"modified":"2021-02-14T12:08:44","modified_gmt":"2021-02-14T12:08:44","slug":"india-on-top-after-ashwin-spins-out-england-for-134","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=34750","title":{"rendered":"India on top after Ashwin spins out England for 134"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin: 5px 5% 10px 5%\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/arysports.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/iNDIA.jpg\" width=\"742\" height=\"486\" title=\"\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Chennai: India built up a commanding lead of 249 after spinner Ravichandran Ashwin helped skittle out England for 134 on day two of the second Test on Sunday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The hosts reached 54 for one at stumps in Chennai with Rohit Sharma on 25 and Cheteshwar Pujara on seven.<\/p>\n<p>Sharma, who hit 161 in India&#8217;s first innings, survived a stumping chance on 20 when wicketkeeper Ben Foakes failed to gather the ball to his left off Moeen Ali.<\/p>\n<p>Jack Leach trapped Shubman Gill leg before for 14 with his left-arm spin and the opener walked back after an unsuccessful TV review.<\/p>\n<p>Ashwin claimed five wickets to end England&#8217;s first innings while responding to India&#8217;s 329 on a turning pitch. The tourists conceded a lead of 195.<\/p>\n<p>It was the veteran off-spinner&#8217;s second successive five-wicket haul and his 29th in 76 Tests. Left-arm spinner Axar Patel and fast bowler Ishant Sharma took two wickets each. Foakes made an unbeaten on 42 off 107 balls.<\/p>\n<p>England had crashed to 39 for four in a dramatic morning session that saw the fall of eight wickets, including skipper Joe Root for six.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/arysports.tv\/sharma-161-helps-india-300-6-second-test\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sharma 161 helps India to 300-6 in second Test<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Chennai: India built up a commanding lead of 249 after spinner Ravichandran Ashwin helped skittle out England for 134 on day two of the second <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=34750\" title=\"India on top after Ashwin spins out England for 134\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34750"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34750"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34752,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34750\/revisions\/34752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}