2nd Test: England were 96 for five in the 2nd innings against India

England will resume their second innings at the overnight score of 53 for three against India in the Second Test at Chennai today. Joe Root was batting  on twenty two runs, Ollie Pope batting on 0,  when the last reports came in. Chasing a victory target of 482 runs, the visitors need 386 more runs to win the match.

Earlier, India scored 286 in the second innings. Ravichandran Ashwin was the highest scorer with 106 runs while Skipper Virat Kohli



contributed 62 and Rohit Sharma added 26 runs. For the visitors, Moeen Ali and Jack Leach scalped four wickets each while Olly Stone bagged one wicket.

India bundled out England for 134 runs taking a first-innings lead of 195 runs. For India, ace spinner Ravichandran Ashwin took five wickets whereas Axar Patel and Ishant Sharma claimed two wickets each.

India were all out for 329 runs in their first innings.