England post highest total against India

Birmingham, Aug 13 (IBNS) Pulverizing the Indian bowlers, England rode on a spectacular 294 by Alastair Cook to notch up their highest total against India in Test scoring 710 for seven declared in their first innings of the Edgbaston match on Friday.

England thus took a mammoth 486 run lead at Edgbaston.

The previous highest of England against India was 653/4 declared at Lord´s in 1990.

Interesting it was Graham Gooch, who is now the batting coach of England, who had made possible with his bat the 1990 feat.

However, on Friday Cook missed his triple hundred after he fell at 294 though he with Eoin Morgan, who scored 104, contributed 222 for the fourth wicket.
Cook´s is the highest Test score by an English player in 21 years.

India losing Sehwag for a duck were 35 for one when the stumps were drawn for the day.

Following is the scorecard at the close on the third day of the third Test between England and India at Edgbaston.

India first innings 224 all out.

Fall of wickets: 1-8, 2-59, 3-60, 4-75, 5-92, 6-100, 7-111, 8-195, 9-224, 10-224

England first innings (overnight 456-3)
A. Strauss b Mishra 87
A. Cook c Raina b Sharma 294
I. Bell b Kumar 34
K. Pietersen lbw b Kumar 63
E. Morgan c Sehwag b Raina 104
R. Bopara lbw b Mishra 7
M. Prior c Tendulkar b Mishra 5
T. Bresnan not out 53
Extras (lb-34, b-11, nb-15, w-3) 63
Total (seven wickets declared, 188.1 overs) 710

Fall of wickets: 1-186 2-252 3-374 4-596 5-605 6-613 7-710

Bowling: Praveen Kumar 40-13-98-2 (1w), Sreesanth 36-4-158-0 (4nb), Ishant Sharma 37.1-7-159-1 (2w), Mishra 43-2-150-3 (9nb),
Raina 28-1-83-1, Tendulkar 4-0-17-0

India second innings
G. Gambhir not out 14
V. Sehwag c Strauss b Anderson 0
R. Dravid not out 18
Extras: (lb-1, w-2) 3
Total: (for one wicket, 12 overs) 35
Fall of wickets: 1-3

To bat: S. Tendulkar, VVS Laxman, S. Raina, MS Dhoni, A. Mishra, P. Kumar, I. Sharma, S. Sreesanth
Bowling (to date): Anderson 5-1-18-1, Broad 2-0-7-0 (2w), Bresnan 3-0-4-0, Swann 1-0-4-0, Pietersen 1-0-1-0