By Admin 
Indian vs england: With the half -century of captain Abhimanyu and Lokesh Rahul and a half -century partnership between the two, India A scored 163 runs for four wickets in the second innings against England Lions here on Sunday, the third day of the second informal cricket Test.
Ishwaran (80 runs, 92 balls, 10 fours) and Rahul (51 runs, 64 balls, nine fours) shared an 88 -run partnership for the second wicket. At the end of the day’s play, Dhruv Jurael was playing six while Nitish Kumar Reddy was playing a run.
Earlier, by four wickets of left -arm fast bowler Khalil Ahmed (four for 70 runs), India A took a 21 -run lead on the basis of first innings, holding England Lions for 327 runs. India A scored 348 runs in the first innings.
India A started poorly in the second innings and Yashasvi Jaiswal caught wicketkeeper James Reve off the ball of George Hill (one wicket for 18) after scoring five runs in 12 balls.
Ishwaran and Rahul, who scored a century in the first innings, then handled the innings. Rahul hit fours in consecutive overs of Chris Woakes (two wickets for 31 runs) while Ishwaran hit two consecutive fours on Josh Tong.
Ishwaran took the team’s score to 50 runs in the 13th over with fours on George Hill.
Rahul completed a half -century off 61 balls with fours on AD Jack (one wicket for 35) but after two balls, Josh was caught on the ball of the same fast bowler.
The century of India’s runs was completed in the 23rd over. Ishwaran completed a half -century off 68 balls with two runs off Jack’s ball in the next over.
Karun Nair (15) also hit Jack two fours while Farhan Ahmed’s ball also saw the boundary but then caught Tom Hens off Vox.
Vox then catch Ishwaran at the hands of Ben McKini and gave India A fourth blow. Earlier, the England team started the day by 192 runs for three wickets and lost four wickets by adding just 10 runs in the morning session.
Fast bowler Anshul Kamboj (two wickets for 56) and Tushar Deshpande (two wickets for 62) took two wickets each while playing well.
In the morning session, Jordan Cox (45) and captain James Reve (10) gave the hosts a cautious start. Cox hit Shardul Thakur but Khalil denied him in the fifth and 51st over of the day by catching him by wicketkeeper Dhruv Jurlel.
Khalil caught captain Rev in the 55th over by Karun Nair and then bowled George Hill (00) at Yorker on the next ball. Khalil broke the back of the middle order of England Lions by catching Chris Woakes (05) behind the wicket in the next over.
Farhan Ahmed (24) and Max Holden (07) batted vigilantly and put a stop to the fall of wickets. Deshpande then returned to bowling and Holden played his fast ball in wickets.
Farhan and Josh Tong (36 not out), however, did not let the team get more shocks till lunch. After lunch, Nitish Kumar Reddy broke this partnership by catching Farhan by Lokesh Rahul. Farhan hit two fours while facing 87 balls.
Tung and 19 -year -old AD Jack (16), playing his second first class match, troubled the Indian bowlers. Both shared a valuable 48 -run partnership for the 10th wicket.
Kamboj broke the partnership by bowling Jack. Tung hit three fours in his unbeaten 61 -ball innings.