It has been one of the most dramatic week in the world of cricket. As we all know, whenever India plays against any opponents, there will be news around the world, especially after winning world cup, the series against England was termed as real test. The second test at Trent Bridge, Nottingham will be remembered for a long time in the history of test matches. After winning the toss in overcast conditions, Dhoni decided to put England in to bat again. Without Zaheer Khan, Sreesanth got a chance to prove his worth in the team. The bowlers did their job by restricting England to 124 for 8 by tea. The story of tail ender’s frustrating the bowlers started again as the England team’s tail started wagging with Stuart Broad along with Graemme Swann hitting the bowlers all across the ground taking the total to 221. With just 10 over remaining in the day, India started more dramatically with Mukund getting out on first ball of their innings. Once again Rahul Dravid came to the party and proved as a sheet anchor by scoring his second century in the series. However, the Indians failed to capitalize on the advantage and only managed a lead of 67 runs. The real drama started on day 3 with batsmen Ian Bell, after scoring a century, started walking out of the ground in hurry to grab a cup of tea without realizing that the umpires had not given any signal of tea break.Those 20 minutes break became the talk of the town and will always be remembered in cricket. The whole episode went like this: Last ball before tea, Ian Bell guided the ball towards third man, Pravin Kumar chased the ball to boundary, managed to stop the ball in front of the rope. Bell, till then had taken run 2 runs, assuming its going to be tea. He walked off the ground while Dhoni had different idea in his mind; he dislodged the bails and appealed for a run out. TV umpire declared Bell run out.
The English crowd started booing the Indian team.
In the break, Andy Flower – England’s coach and Andrew Strauss stormed into the Indian dressing team over Bell’s run out. Captains and coach of both team discussed internally, finally resulted in Dhoni withdrawing his appeal and gaining respect from everyone. True sportsman spirit was shown by team India. Post tea session, the body language changed and all doors were shut for the Indians to make a comeback. England piled up to 544 runs in second innings leaving India to chase a total of 478 runs in almost 5 sessions.
The team however succumbed to England ,with some resilience from Sachin Tendulkar’s half century while others failed to cope up to the situation. India lost the match by 319 runs giving England a 2-0 lead.
Other controversy that made news was ex -England Captain Michael Vaughan tweeted that VVS Laxman applied Vaseline on his bat to escape hot spot capturing the contact between two surfaces. Television commentator Wasim Akram commented that even he was not aware of the fact that Vaseline helps to escape from hotspot. Wasim also added that maybe Vaughan himself would have one something like his during his playing days from escaping from something or other.
Latest news from Indian camp is Yuvraj and Bhajji are out of the series and are replaced by Virat Kohli and Pragyan Ojha. With Zak still not confident to play the third test, the good news is that Sehwag has joined the camp and is all set to play the third test.

Though the champions failed in both test, looking at the positive side, in both the matches the team started well but somehow lost in between.
Failure and success are part of life. Remember every Indian cricket fan and media went ga ga on same team 2 months back after India won the World Cup. This is the time that we all need to strongly support and stand by our team. It’s a matter of one good game and team will find its flow.
Third test will start from 10th August in Birmingham- Edgbaston