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The IPL is likely to start in the second week of April and its knockout matches may stretch till early June

The Test series will now move to Ahmedabad where the third Test, which will be a day/night affair with pink ball, begins on February 24.

At lunch, skipper Joe Root was holding fort on 33 (90 balls, 3 fours) with England adding 63 runs in the first session.

At the lunch break, India who had lost the wicket of Shubman Gill (14) on Day Two reached 150/6 with skipper Virat Kohli and Ravichandran Ashwin batting on 38 and 34 respectively.

“It didn’t do anywhere near as much for 2 sessions ... Spun but not like what it’s doing now ... India would have drawn the first Test if they had batted anything like in the 1st innings ... This isn’t a good Test match pitch …,” he wrote

"Caught a fleeting view of an interesting test match in Chennai," Modi posted on his official Twitter handle with a beautiful image of the 'Chepauk' Stadium captured from his airplane.

Former Indiana captain and cricket great Sunil Gavaskar is not happy with the move to rest Bumrah. He felt that Bumrah should have been in the side as it was a crucial Test with India having already suffered loss

England lead the four match series 1-0 after defeating India by a massive 227 runs in the first Test.

There were questions raised about excluding Kuldeep Yadav. The cricket pundits hit out at the team management for not going ahead with the chinaman bowler, especially after Nadeem failed to make an impression.

At Lunch, India were in all sorts of trouble with their scorecard reading 144/6, still 276 runs behind the target.

Pant scored a scintillating 91 before departing going for a big shot off Dom Bess.

"He has an in-born talent, he definitely puts in the hard work to develop his shots," said Laxman.

Kohli was dismissed cheaply for 11 runs when he edged off-spinner Dom Bess to short leg.

Nearly 150 people were still feared missing and many killed and as many as 14 bodies have been recovered after the tragic incident that took place on Sunday morning.

At the tea break, India's score reads 154/4, trailing the visitors by 424 runs.

Earlier, England were all out for 578 in their first innings with skipper Joe Root's marathon 218-run knock being the highlight of their effort.

With Axar Patel ruled out of the Test at the last minute with injury, team management went with Nadeem instead of Kuldeep.

"I am surprised Stuart Broad is not playing this match. It is the first Test match, and you want your best bowling attack to play against a strong Indian side," said Laxman.

Joe Root is playing the 100th Test match of his career after having made his debut during the series against India in 2012.

With the Test series against England all set to begin on Friday, former Indian opener Gautam Gambhir picked his team for the challenge. He went with the new opening pair of Rohit Sharma and youngster Shubman Gill