England Dominate India on Day 2

Fourth Test: The hosts ended the day at 225 for 2, trailing India by 133 runs

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MANCHESTER: Ben Duckett enabled England to deliver a potential knock-out punch to India with a sizzling 94 as the hosts punished a wayward pace attack to end on 225 for two at stumps on day two of the fourth Test here on Thursday.

Openers Duckett (94 off 100) and Zak Crawley (84 off 113) added 166 off 192 balls to put India on the backfoot after the visitors did well to post 358 in the afternoon session.

Coming out to bat despite a broken foot, Pant's courageous 54 off 75 balls fuelled India past 350 on a pitch with plenty of seam movement.

However, the Indian pace trio of Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammed Siraj and debutant Anshul Kamboj was not accurate enough to trouble the England openers who returned to their aggressive ways after shifting gears at Lord's.