DK's middle stump goes cartwheeling

Aug 02, 2018

Early in the morning session, Mohammed Shami cleaned up the last England wicket to bowl the hosts out for 287•Getty Images

Sam Curran broke India's opening stand after an appeal for lbw against M Vijay was rewarded by DRS •Getty Images

Curran snapped up three wickets before the lunch break as India slipped from 50 for 0 to 59 for 3•Getty Images

Ben Stokes bowled difficult lengths, and his angle from wide of the wicket, taking the ball away was terribly troublesome•Getty Images

Hardik Pandya and Virat Kohli then looked to resurrect India's innings, with more dropped catches behind the wicket helping their cause•Getty Images

James Anderson sent R Ashwin packing after tea•Getty Images

and farmed the strike with the tailenders to reach his 22nd Test hundred•Getty Images

James Anderson was typically accurate, but India's openers saw through the opening hour•Getty Images

KL Rahul, in at No. 3, lasted all of two balls•Getty Images

The England slip cordon was kept busy courtesy edges from the Indian middle order•Getty Images

He removed Ajinkya Rahane for 15...•Getty Images

Kohli held India's middle order together, scoring his first Test fifty in England •Getty Images

But Kohli carried on...•Getty Images

Kohli helped India add 92 for the last two wickets as India folded for 274, thirteen runs short of England's first-innings total•Getty Images

He dragged an outswinging delivery from Curran onto his stumps•Getty Images

Adil Rashid found no purchase off the surface•Getty Images

Before cleaning up Dinesh Karthik's middle stump for a duck•Getty Images

But Curran's fourth wicket, that of Pandya, just before tea on the second day, kept India on the back foot at 160 for 6•Getty Images

With the lower-order wickets tumbling, Kohli took the aggressive route when needed•Getty Images

R Ashwin was handed India's new ball, and he struck off the day's final delivery; England finished the day on 9 for 1, ahead by only 22 at stumps•Getty Images