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youre in for a tough ride.It was a bit like that on the first day in
Visakhapatnam. England started well enough but, the second they lost the toss on
this surface, you feared there was trouble ahead. From the moment Virat Kohli
got off the mark with a cover-driven boundary off James Anderson, he looked
daunting. And, on a pitch that is already showing signs of uneven bounce and
spin, you know already that England face a monumental struggle to stay in this
game.The toss in Rajkot was crucial, too. It gave England a chance to apply some
scoreboard pressure and the time to ease their way into the series. But the
anticipated deterioration in that surface came too late to influence the
outcome.It looks as if Visakhapatnam is going to be different. Even before lunch
on the first day, one delivery from Stuart Broad jagged away from the bat
sharply off the pitch and a few deliveries seemed to take a piece of the surface
when they bounced. Batting last is likely to prove much tougher.In such
circumstances, it is vital the bowling side take any half-chance that comes
along in the first innings. Think of the Ashes Test in Adelaide in 2010.
Australia won the toss and batted first on a typically excellent batting pitch,
but a brilliant bit of fielding by Jonathan Trott in the first over resulted in
the run-out of Simon Katich and England took advantage.Something similar might
have happened here. Had Adil Rashid been able to cling on to a tough chance
offered by Kohli when he had scored 56, England would have had a key
breakthrough. But the chance went to ground and Kohli went on - and on - to make
a high-class century. He may well have made the defining contribution to this
Test already. The next time Rashid sees Chris Scott (the Durham keeper who
dropped Brian Lara in the early stages of his 501 in 1994) they will surely
exchanging knowing looks.While it might be tempting to dismiss the chance as one
of those things there was an element of self-inflicted injury about it. With the
bowlers unable to find any swing and both batsmen having a couple of questions
to answer against the short ball - Cheteshwar Pujara has been hit four times in
this series and Kohli is an almost compulsive hooker and puller - England had
clearly decided upon a plan of attack. Ben Stokes was to pitch short in the hope
that one of the batsmen might hit the ball to one of the men back for the
hook.The flaw in the plan was the choice of fielder at long leg. Rashid is not,
by domestic standards, a bad fielder and has pretty safe hands. He is a little
slow by the standards of this team so it would, under normal circumstances, make
sense to hide him at long leg.But in these circumstances, with the slips all but
out of business and the mishit hook offering Englands best chance of a catch, it
would have made more sense to place a better fielder in the position.Rashid was
a little slow to react and, though he just about made it to the ball, he was not
in a good position to cling on to the catch. It was not straightforward, but it
was the sort of chance that several of this England team would have taken far
more often than not. To compound the error, Rashid let the ball slip under his
body to the boundary later in the same over. Stokes looked as if he could drink
hot blood.Alastair Cook recognised the error. Within a few minutes, he had
replaced Rashid with the quicker and more athletic Anderson at long leg. But the
moment had gone. Kohli had learned his lesson. He wasnt going to make the same
mistake.If it seems harsh to focus on such a fleeting moment, it is because Test
cricket in such circumstances is harsh and unforgiving. Attention to detail over
such issues can make all the difference and, by leaving Rashid at long leg,
England failed to make the most of their perfectly reasonable plan.Later, Cook
also failed to take advantage of the second new ball. Just two balls after
Anderson had Ajinkya Rahane edging a classic outswinger, Ravi Ashwin might have
been caught at gully edging a similar delivery. Instead, England had a third man
and a deep square leg.The decision to introduce Zafar Ansari into the attack for
the 11th over might also attract some criticism, too. The score was 36 for 2 at
the time and Ansari, though he bowled nicely enough in that first spell (six
overs for 19 runs), was unable to sustain the pressure.There was some logic in
the decision to turn to him, though. As a left-arm spinner, he was trying to
take the ball away from the two right-handed batsmen and Stuart Broad was off
the pitch (at that stage he was struggling with a cut sustained in Rajkot and
opened by a committed piece of fielding; later he struggled with a sore right
foot that may well see him rested for the third Test). It wasnt that the
decision was wrong, it was just it didnt work out.That England remain with any
sort of foothold in the game is largely due to the performance of Anderson.
Unable to gain much movement with the first ball of the match, he nevertheless
took three of the four wickets to fall - bouncing out M Vijay with a sharp short
ball and persuading Rahane to nick an outswinger - and managed to gain dangerous
swing with the second new ball.We thought the way the new ball played in the
morning it was the easiest time to bat and didnt swing that much, Anderson said
afterwards. Every time I pitched it up Vijay hit me for four, so I went short. I
watched the first Test so I knew there was a chance with the short ball.The
pitch is quite abrasive and not chewing the ball up as we would like. The
outfield is lush so there are not many areas to get the ball to reverse. We got
a little bit from 40 to 55 overs but it was tiny.I thought we bowled pretty
well. There were a couple of periods we let it get away: half an hour before tea
we let ourselves down a bit with the ball and in the field. But on that pitch we
are reasonably happy with that.The wicket was tough to bowl on. The outfield was
heavy - there will be some sore legs tomorrow - and the pitch played well. The
two guys who got hundreds they set about their business and showed they are
world-class. They made it very difficult to bowl at them.Anderson also warned
that conditions could deteriorate sharply, so it was essential for England to
strike early on day two and for their batsmen to score heavily in the first
innings.Im not sure the pitch will stay together as well as Rajkot, he said.
There are signs of it keeping low. There will be more variable bounce and we
have seen a few spin. So we are in tough position and we need to have a good day
with the ball and an extremely good go with the bat.
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purchase a Major League Soccer expansion franchise in Miami. CLEMSON, S.C. --
There was no politicking needed for Clemson?to earn its second straight berth in
the College Football Playoff, so Dabo Swinney turned his attention to
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everything you could possibly want in a Heisman. Hes made college football
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over Virginia Tech?on Saturday, accounting for 373 yards and five touchdowns.It
was a fitting final salvo in a battle for the award that looked to be all but
over three weeks ago, when Louisville Cardinals quarterback?Lamar Jackson was
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