Live Cricket Score of India vs England, 2nd Test, Day 5 at Visakhapatnam

188 and 144 - the number of deliveries faced by Alastair Cook and Haseeb Hameed respectively for their scores of 54 and 25 on Day 4. However, their spirited knocks came to an end late on the penultimate day, much to England's despair and India's delight. The two players, who know every word of the 'How to save a Test match' text-book are back in the pavilion after their gritty display. Can Joe Root and Co. take a leaf out of the same book and prevent India from taking a 1-0 lead? Or Will R Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja and Co. run through England's batting order? An engrossing final day's play is on the cards. Hello and welcome to our coverage of the fifth day's play of the second Test at the Dr. Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy ACA-VDCA Cricket Stadium, Visakhapatnam.

"Ultimately we achieved what we wanted. We are happy at getting two wickets at the end of the day. Possibly, day five, I don't think it [the pitch] will be easy to bat on because as we saw, cracks are opening up even on day four, it was difficult. Even on day three - the second and third sessions were difficult to bat on.

"Here if you play defensive also, it is not very easy. I believe this wicket is such that if you play defensive, it is slightly difficult to get a batsman out but still as we saw today, there is low bounce. One or two balls from Ashwin bounced, from the rough Jaddu [Jadeja] was able to get a lot of bounce. Even if you play defensive also it is not easy, I don't think it will be an easy task to bat on this wicket,"