Live - England v India, second Test, day two, Trent Bridge

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 News updates from the first day's play at Trent Bridge

By Tom Fordyce

Updates automatically

1. 1122 44-1  
   Much better from Broad, angling them in from his new-found full length, and Dravid is content to defend and leave a maiden. Spectators marching briskly to fill the last remaining seats, the hubbub growing with every backside parked on seat.
   
2. 1117 India 44-1  
   Re the cowboy ballerinas, you'd think the tutu would be problematic when riding anything but side-saddle. Could they cope when lassooing a bullock out of thick thorn bushes? I think not. Careful glancing dabber from Laxman as Anderson goes wide, and that will race away for another four past a statuesque gully. Trouble.
   
3. 

   BBC Test Match Special's Phil Tufnell  
   A little aside from Tuffers - you learn something new every day:
   "Love my art. Little splodge here, and a little splodge there. Left-hander you see, creative, although the bloke that came round and painted my conservatory was right-handed."
   
4. 

   BBC Test Match Special's Michael Vaughan  
   “Jimmy Anderson is getting a little bit of swing but there is not the nip and seam movement we saw yesterday. India's top seven is the best top seven in world cricket so it is going to be a tough day for England if they don't get one or two out this morning.”
   
5. 1112 India 40-1  
   Good Lord - Dravid on the attack too now, flashing one off his pads with minimal effort for a silky four to the square leg fence. Short, wide, marmalised away past the scampering Morgan at backward point for four more. Sun out, ball not swinging, Laxman hungry for a runs-stuffed dosa - who said ominous?
   
6. 1107 CHAMPAGNE MOMENT India 32-1  
   James Anderson now from the Radcliffe Road End, cantering in on his 29th birthday. We'll crack open the champagne graphic for that one. Ah, bubbles a little flat, Laxman's on the attack - leaning into an overpitched one to drill through cover for a majestic four, and then repeating the trick to gasps from the still-settling crowd.
   
7.  
   From Sudhakar in Brighton, TMS inbox: Cowboy ballerina costume? No doubt a semi-ironic reference to the classic Lee Majors straight to TV film of 1984 "The cowboy and the ballerina" about a tough lonely man who falls for a glamorous Russian dancer who may or may not be a spy."
   
8. 1104 India 24-1  
   Here we go - super atmos at Trent Bridge, the punters roaring Stuart Broad in to the crease... mmm, lovely over, full, fast, Dravid not enjoying that one little bit. Maiden, and exactly the start Skipper Strauss at first slip would have asked for.
   
9.  
   From Dub, Port Talbot, TMS inbox: "Having mused overnight on the peculiar incident of the 'horse on 'Seventh Avenue' it strikes me that around that time there appears to have been a number of such sightings of beasts in unfamiliar urban surroundings .... one recalls the Beatles telling us about the yak in the USSR .... perhaps it all started a few years prior to this though when Tony Bennett left his aardvark in San Francisco."
   
10. BBC Sport's Sam Sheringham  
    "A quick news line from overnight. India bowler Praveen Kumar has been fined 20% of his match fee after pleading guilty to an ICC code of conduct breach. The swing bowler was charged over his aggressive reaction to Marais Erasmus when the umpire turned down an lbw appeal against Kevin Pietersen."
    
11. 1050  
    News re Graeme Swann's injured hand: nothing broken, some discomfort, can bowl but won't field in the slips. Nets being cleared off the square, groundstaff frantically buffing, players clattering up and down the pavilion's concrete steps.
    
12. 

    BBC Test Match Special's Vic Marks  
    "Swing is England's biggest factor and they did get it moving yesterday but only got one wicket. Dravid, Laxman and Tendulkar will want to bat time and if they create a base the strokemakers might be able to cause the havoc that Broad caused against a tiring attack. That will be the plan, to wear out the England attack. India have reall possibilities in this match."
    
13. 1042  
    A quick word from our engineer pals from BBC radio: "We're sorry that due to a technical problem with the DAB broadcast of 5 live sports extra, some listeners have been unable to find the station on their DAB Radios yesterday (Friday 29th July).
    This should be fixed overnight, and if you are still experiencing problems finding the station, an autotune or rescan of available stations on your DAB radio should find 5 live sports extra. Thanks for bearing with us. For more information on how to do this, and alternative ways to hear 5 live sports extra, please go to http://www.bbc.co.uk/5livesportsextra/help/."
    
14. 

    BBC Test Match Special's Michael Vaughan  
    "Clouds are moving away and the blues skies have arrived. Pitch is cracked and looking ugly."
    
15. 1032 THE SUN IS OUT  
    Should add that I was in a hotel. It's been a while since the ladyfriend invited six men round for breakfast at ours. Beautiful day at Trent Bridge, which is great news for the spectators but maybe not so good for England's swingers. India 24-1 overnight, the players warming up on the verdant infield down in front of our commentary slot.
    
16. 1030  
    This morning at breakfast I saw six men climbing into outfits described on the celleophane packets as "cowboy ballerina costumes". Any ideas? Thought it was either tutus or fringed leather chaps. Take your eyes off the world for a minute and it all moves on.
    

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