'Anil and Munaf set the game up for us' - Dravid
Rahul Dravid credited Anil Kumble and Munaf Patel for "setting up the game" and said although India won with five bowlers in this game, the formula might not be repeated in Mumbai
08/03Result
2nd Test, England tour of India at Mohali, Mar 9-13 2006
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![England]( "England")
300 & 181 -
![India]( "India")
338 & 144/1 (33 ov)
Player of the Match
08/03Result
2nd Test, England tour of India at Mohali, Mar 9-13 2006
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![England]( "England")
300 & 181 -
![India]( "India")
338 & 144/1 (33 ov)
Player of the Match
Day 5
Indian attack gets back its sting
After a completely lacklustre bowling performance at Nagpur, the Indians were far more incisive at Mohali, largely due to a more responsive pitch, but also because the bowling attack included a certain Munaf Patel
Day 4
'I still think I'm a bowler who can bat' - Pathan
Irfan Pathan speaks to the media on his half-century and India's position
Day 3
Kumble storms into the 500-wicket club
Kumble's progression to 500 wickets
'I believe every ball can get a wicket' - Kumble
Anil Kumble looks back at his memorable moments, the future and the shoulder injury which nearly ended his career
A man apart
Even in this brave new world of Indian cricket, Anil Kumble remains a manapart
Day 1
India wrest initiative
On a pitch which did not really have much in it for any breed of bowler, under overcast skies with a cool breeze blowing, through interruptions for bad light and rain, India slowly but steadily wrested the initiative from England, ending the first day wit
Munaf hurries India to victory
Virender Sehwag got stuck into the England bowlers and India romped to a nine-wicket win in the second Test
Match is evenly poised - Harmison
Steve Harmison said he was reasonably pleased with the position England find themselves in on the third day, and even more pleased that the pitch offered something more for his style of bowling
Inching forward in the gloom
Paul Coupar's verdict from Mohali
England fight back after Kumble special
The first full day's play showed just why this Test has been all about what could have and might have been
The virtues of patience
Rahul Dravid summoned all his powers of concentration and patience to thwart England's bowlers
Gloom has the final say
The curtain came down on a dull, dreary unsatisfactory day a little before 3.30pm when play was called off
Spinners leave England reeling
It was long day as India relentlessly pressed forward, and the rewards eventually came
Turning to the talisman
Abetted by the bounce that makes him such a fearsome proposition in thefinal stages of a Test, Kumble was back in his element. Not surprisingly,with their talisman to the fore, so were India
At last, the genuine article
A match illuminated by Anil Kumble's 500th wicket and a return to something like his menacing best - match figures of 9 for 145, after the tour of Pakistan where nine scalps cost him 70 runs each - may also be recalled in years to come for the reemergence
Kumble the metronome
Anil Kumble has been India's go-to man for a while now, and he again answered the team's call on the second day at Mohali, getting rid of England's tail in a hurry to restrict them to 300
Time to get a bit nasty
Paul Coupar on England's defeat at Mohali
Pietersen fined for dissent
Kevin Pietersen has been fined 30 percent of his match fee for showing dissent after being dismissed during England's defeat in the second Test against India in Mohali
Patel makes a mark
while Irfan Pathan finished with a couple of wickets, the performance which would have gladdened Indian hearts the most Munaf Patel's display, especially with the old ball
Munaf embraces the hopes of a nation
'It's better to burn out than to fade away' might sound profound when you're listening to Neil Young, but it's the last thing you want from young cricketers with genuine potential
'I don't let spinners bowl to me' - Pietersen
It could have been an English county game in May, except for the high-class spin on show and for Pietersen, who lit up the Punjabi crowd with a display ofsouthern-hemisphere swagger
Trescothick out for the rest of the tour
Gareth Batty, Sajid Mahmood, Owais Shah and Vikram Solanki have been called into England's one-day squad for the forthcoming series against India
Others
Huge home advantage a thing of the past: Dravid
On the eve of the second Test at Mohali, Rahul Dravid was tightlipped about specifics but still found enough to talk about
England left to regret lack of killer touch
Paul Coupar's verdict from the fourth day of the second Test at Mohali
India v England, 2nd Test, Mohali
Match home, India v England, 2nd Test, Mohali
Sanspareils Greenlands face end of the road
Sanspareils Greenlands, the authorised supplier of cricket balls for Tests and first-class cricket in India, is under serious threat from Kookaburra
Laxman and Kaif expect the axe
India's batsmen, VVS Laxman and Mohammad Kaif, have both been dropped for the second Test against England, which starts tomorrow morning in Mohali
England have gone soft, says Gooch
India are counting their riches. They made a bold statement in Mohali by going in with five bowlers
Will India go for five specialist bowlers again?
One up with one to go, against a team crocked before the series began, and further hit by Steve Harmison's shin splints today - the picture looks rosy for India
Who will blink first?
If you believe Rahul Dravid, the advantage India had when playing at home is vastly reduced these days