India's bowlers took cue from the top order batsmen as they struck telling blows
to reduce English County Champions Sussex to 146 for 5 in their first innings
on the second day of the warm up cricket match here today.
After VVS Laxman top scored with a sparkling innings of 95 to give the Indians
an impressive total of 388 for 7 declared, the bowlers produced a clinical display
to drive a wedge through the Sussex top order.
At close, wicketkeeper-batsman Andy Hodd was batting
on 21 with Robert Martin-Jenkins yet to open his account at the crease and Sussex
still needing 93 more to avoid the follow on.
Sreesanth drew first blood when he had Richard Montgomerie
(18) caught at second slip by Dinesh Kaarthick before Ranadeb Bose
joined the act, sending back Chris Nash in a similar dismissal.
Rudra Pratap Singh then fired in a yorker to trap Hopkinson
in front of the wicket.
Sussex skipper Michael Yardy battled adversity with
a compact half-century before Anil Kumble marked his bowling run up.
Once he did that, the leg spinner duly accounted for Yardy
as well as Michael Thornley.
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