India reel at 63 for 3 after England lions declare at 413/8

CHELMSFORD, July 14: England Lions made early inroads into the Indian batting, reducing the visitors to 63 for three at lunch after having declared its first innings at 413 for eight on the second day of their three-day warm up game at here on Saturday.
Sachin Tendulkar on 37 (45b, 6x4) and Sourav Ganguly on 14 (32b, 2x4) were at the crease at the break.
After the England Lions had kept the Indians on the field for another half hour on day two, Graham Onions gave the hosts a great start when he struck a double blow in his very first over removing Wasim Jaffer (1) and VVS Laxman for a third ball duck.
While Jaffer played across and was plumb leg before, Laxman, who came in at number three, was squared up with a perfectly pitched delivery that he edged to the wicketkeeper.
Stuart Board then got into the act in the fifth over of the innings when Dinesh Kaarthick was given out caught at the wicket for just five. The batsman was surprised at the decision since the ball came off his pads. India was 14 for three then.
It was then left to senior pros Tendulkar and Ganguly to do the rescue job. Tendulkar began in the right earnest, on-driving Onions to the fence to get into the mood. He then put the pacer in his place, smashing him to all parts of the field as he repeatedly unleashed some excellent carpet drives with lovely timing. All his six fours came off Onions and were high quality strokes.
Ganguly got off the block with a flash over the slip cordon off Broad before gliding Chris Tremlett over point for another boundary.
Earlier, the Lions declared their first innings at 413 for eight.
Tim Bresnan, who resumed the day at his overnight score of 116, finished with an unbeaten 126 while Tremlett made a quickfire 32 not out. Bresnan's 116 runs came off 166 balls and he hit 16 fours while Tremlett's 32 came off 44 balls in which he hit four fours and one six.
Zaheer Khan (3/119), S Sreesanth (2/76) and Ramesh Powar (2/96) were the successful bowlers for India.
Starting the day at 379 for eight, the hosts added 34 runs before the declaration came. Tremlett chanced his arm, hitting Zaheer for a towering six at long-on while Bresnan was too happy to feed him the strike.
From 225 for seven at tea on the first day, England Lions did well to add another 188 runs losing just one more wicket.
Scoreboard
England Lions 1st innings (overnight 379 for eight)
Andrew Strauss b Khan: 1
Joe Denly st Dhoni b Powar: 83
Owais Shah c Khan b Sreesanth: 11
Jonathan Trott c Ganguly b Khan: 46
Ravi Bopara c Karthik b Tendulkar: 29
Tim Ambrose c Dhoni b Khan: 4
Adil Rashid c & b Powar: 0
Tim Bresnan not out: 126
Stuart Broad c Yuvraj Singh b Sreesanth: 50
Chris Tremlett not out: 32
Extras (b-8, lb-2, nb-21): 31
Total (for 8 wkts decl. in 97 overs): 413
Fall of wickets: 1-14, 2-62, 3-142, 4-174, 5-184, 6-185, 7-225, 8-354.
Bowling: Zaheer Khan 22-5-119-3, S Sreesanth 21-0-76-2, Sourav Ganguly 6-2-16-0, I Sharma 12-1-61-0, Ramesh Powar 25-1-96-2, S Tendulkar 9-0-24-1, Yuvraj Singh 2-0-11-0.