London: Pacers Mohammed Shami and Jasprit Bumrah on Monday elevated India’s position in the second Test match of the series at Lords in England.

The two tailenders helped India post a respectable total in the second innings with an unbeaten ninth-wicket partnership of 89 runs.

Shami scored an unbeaten 56 runs while Bumrah scored 34 runs to take India to 298-8 before declaring.

The duo struck once again in England’s second innings with both striking wickets in the first two overs of the innings. Bumrah got Rory Burns in the first over as Siraj caught him inside the thirty yards circle followed by Mohammed Shami bagging the wicket of Dominic Sibley in the second over.

England, chasing a target of 272 runs is currently struggling at 10-2 with captain Joe Root and Haseeb Hameed at the crease at the time of posting this report.

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New Delhi, May 2: Ending weeks of speculation, the BJP on Thursday named Karan Bhushan Singh as its Lok Sabha candidate from the Kaiserganj seat, replacing his father and incumbent MP Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, who is facing criminal charges of sexually harassing women wrestlers.

The party also named Dinesh Pratap Singh as its candidate from Raebareli, a Gandhi family bastion which has been won by former Congress president Sonia Gandhi for five consecutive times. She is now a Rajya Sabha MP and the Congress is yet to announce its candidate for the seat.

While Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh may have been denied the ticket, the fact that the seat's contest remains within the family shows how influential the Thakur leader and six-time MP is in the region and the party.