Mohammed Siraj reacts during the second day of the fourth test of VS England in Old Trafford (photo from STU Forster/Getty Images) India was on the back of the second day at the end of the day in the fourth test against England in Old Trafford, Manchester and former Australian captain Ricky Ponting did not stay in his criticism of the bowling performance of visitors. When he spoke to Sky Sports Cricket 3 days ago, Ponting tore himself into the Indian shortage of the ball with the ball in the day when the English opening was built by a commanding 166-run.“Now I’m just thinking about these tabs today. I think England has definitely improved from it and we have seen from the morning to the afternoon how much the goal and conditions have changed. ““We have two class players. India has to find a way early today to get back into this game. If they don’t take goals soon, this game slips really, really fast,” he warned.“On the goal with this sun today, we saw Jadeja to turn a couple yesterday afternoon.“It’s not the best you should listen to if you are an Indian fan, but the fact is that it is very true what could happen,” said the former Australian captain.India was brought to 358 earlier during the day, despite the bold effort of Rishabh Pant, who walked with a broken finger to get 54 out of 75 balls. The goal-finger was injured on day 1, but returned to the permanent ovation and added major runs in the lower ranking. England responded aggressively and reached 225/2 on stumps at only 46 breaks. Opening Ben Duckett (94) and Zak Crawley (84) led the accusation before Ravindra Jadeja and the debutant Anshul Kartišta finally provided breakthroughs. With Ollie Pope (20*) and Joe Root (11*) undefeated in the fold, England watched India with only 133 runs and looked well set to dictate a test heading up to 3.
