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Experienced India favoured in opener

Match Facts
Tuesday, August 10, 2010
Start time 1430 (0900 GMT)
Big Picture
For a series with such an unhurried schedule, the rush to start within three days of the Tests is puzzling. India have had so little time to prepare that they decided to take an army chopper to Dambulla to save time on the five-hour road journey from Colombo. Ross Taylor was New Zealand's most fluent batsman with 44 from 33 balls, England v New Zealand, Super Eights, ICC World Twenty20, St Lucia, May 10, 2010On Monday afternoon, the Indian team had their only practice session ahead of the one-dayers. They had a three-hour net in the middle, observed by the groundstaff going through their last-day preparations such as getting the advertising hoardings in place and the security personnel going through their drills.

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Strauss and Trott secure nine-wicket victory

Andrew Strauss and Jonathan Trott hit unbeaten half-centuries to guide England to an emphatic nine-wicket win in the second Test at Edgbaston to give them a 2-0 lead in the series. Both batsmen finished on 53 with the second-wicket pair making light work of a potentially testing surface as the hosts completed their sixth consecutive Test victory midway through the afternoon session. Andrew Strauss survived a couple of chances but looked in good form as England neared victory, England v Pakistan, 2nd Test, Edgbaston, August 9, 2010
England did the hard work before lunch and when they resumed 47 were needed with the bite gone from Pakistan's attack. Strauss went to his fifty from 108 balls then Trott brought up the same milestone, his second fifty of the match, with a powerful cover drive which levelled the scores.

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