Indian pacers outplay English batsmen on final day of Lords Test; India wins by 151 runs
London: India defeated England in the second Test match of the five-match series at Lords riding upon a brilliant all-round bowling performance from its pacers on the final day.
Asked to bat for two sessions and for a minimum of 60 overs on the final day, the England team collapsed on 120 in 51.5 overs. The Indian pacers were all over the England team with England losing both its openers in the first two overs.
Jasprit Bumrah and Mohammed Shami bagged one wicket each in the first two overs of England's inning and ended up with figures of 2-33 and 1-13 respectively.
Ishant Sharma also bagged 2 wickets for 13 runs but Mohammed Siraj emerged as the pick of the bowler with 4-32. Siraj had also bagged a four-fer in the first inning.
Siraj ended the match with figures of 8-126.
Other major contributors in the Indian wins were KL Rahul, Rohit Sharma, Ajinkya Rahane, and Cheteshwar Pujara who made useful contributions with the bat.
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We are questioning PM Modi as he campaigned for Prajwal Revanna, says Shivakumar
Kalaburagi (PTI): Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister D K Shivakumar on Thursday said the Congress was questioning Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the alleged sex scandal involving JD(S) MP Prajwal Revanna as he had campaigned for him in the Lok Sabha elections.
He was responding to state JD(S) president H D Kumaraswamy, who asked why Congress was questioning the prime minister.
Prajwal, facing allegations of sexually abusing women, was the NDA candidate in Hassan Lok Sabha constituency, where polling was held on April 26.
Speaking to reporters, Shivakumar said, "The prime minister campaigned for the accused Prajwal Revanna. He is an NDA candidate and hence we are questioning him."
Prajwal is the grandson of former Prime Minister and JD(S) patriarch H D Deve Gowda and son of MLA and former Minister H D Revanna.
Scores of explicit video clips allegedly involving the 33-year-old MP had started making the rounds in Hassan in recent days.
To a question, Shivakumar, also state Congress president, said not a single BJP leader is talking in favour of victims on the Prajwal issue.
He said BJP leaders, Deve Gowda and Kumaraswamy, should go to the houses of the victims and console them.
"When they say they have respect for women, and when the photographs are there of their party workers (victims), they should meet them. Why aren’t they meeting them?" he asked.
