Stats and Trivia in Mohali

India haven't lost a match in Mohali since the inaugural Test there in 1994, winning six and drawing five. England have lost two out the three games they've played there. Moeen Ali needs five more wickets to become the 14th England player
to achieve the double of 1000 runs and 100 wickets in Tests. Cheteshwar Pujara's first innings scores this season - 62, 87, 41, 124 and 119. He faces an average of 169 balls in these innings. After getting dropped from the Test team last winter, Jos Buttler has appeared in just one first class match. He scored 16 & 26 for Lancashire against Middlesex.

Stokes-Bairstow partnership has been the most prolific one for England in 2016

772 Partnership runs between Ben Stokes and Jonny Bairstow in Tests in 2016, the most by any pair. The next best is 750, by Alastair Cook and Alex Hales. There are three England pairs in the top four, and four in the top six. FOUR teams which have a 50-plus
average for the sixth wicket in 2016: apart from England, India, Sri Lanka and South Africa have also had prolific sixth-wicket pairs. 60.46 Stokes' Test batting average in 2016 - he has scored 786 runs in 14 innings. Only two other batsmen - Bairstow and Virat Kohli - have scored 750 runs at 60-plus averages this year.

Sixth wickets on Top - Most runs for a Partnership wkt for England in Tests in 2016

1759 Partnership runs for England's sixth wicket in Tests in 2016, the fourth highest by any team for a wicket in a calendar year. The highest is Pakistan's 2341 for the third wicket in 2006, when Mohammad Yousuf and Younis Khan added 1530 in 11 innings. This is the highest for any wicket for England in a calendar year,
though: the previous highest was 1704 for the fourth wicket in 2015. And 79.95 England's average stand for the sixth wicket in Tests in 2016, the highest by far among all wickets; the next best is 45.42, for the seventh wicket. England's sixth wicket run rate of 4.02 is also by far their best this year, as is the five century stands.

A fifer for Ravi Ashwin after years of embarrassment against England - home and away

England tour of India 2016

2nd Test: India vs England Played at Dr. Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy ACA-VDCA Cricket Stadium, Visakhapatnam 17,18,19,20,21 November 2016 (5-day match)

Toss - India, who chose to bat

Scorecard:

India 1st Innings 455 ALL OUT for 129.4 overs

England 1st Innings 255 ALL OUT for 102.5 overs

Ben Stokes 70

Jonny Bairstow 53

Joe Root 53

Adil Rashid 32 not out

Fall of wickets 1-4 (Cook, 2.3 ov), 2-51 (Hameed, 20.6 ov), 3-72 (Duckett, 27.3 ov), 4-79 (Root, 31.5 ov), 5-80 (Ali, 34.2 ov), 6-190 (Bairstow, 78.3 ov), 7-225 (Stokes, 90.4 ov), 8-234 (Ansari, 95.1 ov), 9-255 (Broad, 102.4 ov), 10-255 (Anderson, 102.5 ov)

Ravichandran Ashwin 67/5

Mohammed Shami 28/1

Day 3: 2nd Session - India lead by 200 runs

We can confirm that India will bat again. No follow-on here. Understandable too. Give your bowlers a break, let the pitch deteriorate further and also batsmen can fill in their boots with no pressure on them.