Sport: day two of the first Test between India and England
Amazing how quickly the intensity has ratcheted up this morning, India have stepped straight into it, and England are under some real pressure here... and he's gone! Flintoff is caught at short leg! And England haven't even scored a run yet.Photograph: Julian Herbert/Getty ImagesHarbhajan comes into the attack for the first time today, and Anderson snappily cuffs him through mid-wicket, then walks down the pitch prodding at random bits of the pitch as though he were Herbert Sutcliffe himself.Photograph: Bikas Das/APPrior reaches a serene fifty which has contained just one boundary. This is an excellent performance, and what I like about Prior is that, in his fledgling career, he has consistently done it on the subcontinent, which shows there is a lot more to his game than the sometimes misplaced machismo we see in the one-day matches.Photograph: Julian Herbert/Getty Images
"The first ball felt like I had a ping pong ball in my hand. It was a terrible delivery. My mum could have hit it for four. Then it all went a bit crazy." The words of Graeme Swann after he took two wickets in the first over of his Test debutPhotograph: Julian Herbert/Getty ImagesA worker sweeps the wicket at the tea interval in preparation for England to continue their assault on the Indian batsmen, who are in deep trouble on 37-3Photograph: Anthony Devlin/PALaxman plays a pair of sublime cuts which skip straight to point and so bring him nothing in return. If the judges were giving marks for artisitc merit though...Photograph: Julian Herbert/Getty ImagesTendulkar, like Magnus Magnusson tends to be the kind of man who finishes what he starts, and he's got a start here. Photograph: Indranil Mukherjee/AFP/Getty ImagesAnd he's got Yuvraj! Caught at slip! England have been working him over for the last 20 minutes, with Flintoff marching down the wicket and staring him down during his spell, and now Harmison has undone him. The ball was sliding across the stumps, and Yuvraj tried to drive the ball through long-on, but instead sliced an edge through to second slip.Photograph: Julian Herbert/Getty Images
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