England now need 2nd Test win
It's a rough old life being a professional cricketer. Just four days on from the end of the Lord's Test between England and India, and it's already time for the Second Test of three, starting on Friday (SS1, 10.30am).
The play shifts to Notting-
ham and Trent Bridge, where bowlers tend to hold sway.
There were a couple of changes to England's bowling line-up in the first Test, with Chris Tremlett leap-frogging an unlucky Stuart Broad to claim a spot in the starting 11. On Test debut, Tremlett picked up the prize scalps of Wasim Jaffer, Rahul Dravid and VVS Laxman. Sadly, his contribution to the Lord's match was limited to his bowling. He picked up a pair.
England's inexperienced bowling attack of Monty Panesar, James Anderson, Ryan Sidebottom and Trem-lett stuck to their task, doing a wonderful job of restricting India's first innings to 201 after England's batting collapse. In the second innings, Kevin Pietersen weighed in with a timely century, but it was all in vain as the weather prevented an England win.
With Matthew Hoggard a major doubt for the second Test, Tremlett could well stay on with England. He may fare better at Trent Bridge, the ground where he made his one-day international debut. In that match, against Bangladesh in the Ashes summer of 2005, he narrowly missed out on a hat-trick. The crucial third ball hit Moham-mad Ashraful's stumps, but failed to break the wicket.
Anderson too will expect to make a big impression on a ground that tends to favour bowlers who can swing the ball as he can. Broad could yet make his belated Test debut, with one possibility being that England leave out Pan-esar in favour of an all-out pace attack.
The Test match is scheduled to finish on Tuesday. Starting that afternoon, it's time once again for the five-day feast of racing known as Glorious Goodwood (Ch4, 2.00pm).
