Ind vs Eng: England resume first innings after tea on Day 2 in 3rd Test

Captain Alastair Cook and Nick Compton resumed England first innings after tea on the second day of the third Test against India at the Eden Gardens in Kolkata on Thursday.

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Cook and Compton consolidated further in the second session by adding 99 runs. The Indian bowlers were left clueless while the English batsmen looked to attack, especially against R Ashwin and Pragyan Ojha, who were not allowed to settle.

Making most of a dropped chance, captain Alastair Cook batted his way to his 30th Test fifty.

Cook was dropped by Cheteshwar Pujara at first slip off Zaheer Khan when he was on 17.

Cook and Compton took England first innings to 22/0 at lunch.

This was after Indian captain MS Dhoni hit his 27th Test fifty just before getting dismissed as England bowled out India for 316 runs.

Steven Finn dismissed Dhoni with a good short delivery at his body. Dhoni tried to fend it away but got into an awkward position and couldn't keep it down. The ball flew down to gully where Swann took a fine diving catch to end the Indian innings.

Dhoni batted well with the tail and reached his fifty with a crashing cover drive to the fence.

Dhoni brought up the Indian 300 with a six off Monty Panesar over long-off and the Indian captain followed it with a huge hit over long-on that went into the stands.

Panesar dismissed Zaheer Khan and Ishant Sharma in his successive overs.

Panesar floated a delivery at a good pace on off and middle, Ishant got his bat down very late as he tried to drive but the ball sneaked through and hit the stumps.

Panesar trapped Zaheer Khan plumb in front of the wicket in the fourth over of the day.

Panesar bowled a flighted delivery on line with the stumps and moving on with the arm, Zaheer tried to defend but missed and the ball that struck him low on his pads. That would have missed the leg stump as shown by the hawk eye.

The day's play started with captain MS Dhoni and Zaheer resuming the Indian first innings.

An intriguing first day's play saw India score 273 runs and England pick up 7 wickets. A day that saw brave displays from Gautam Gambhir, Sachin Tendulkar and James Anderson.