Cricket Results: Vaughan prediction spot on as England win late on day four

England Cricket / Jamie "The Pacman" Pacheco / 01 August 2011 /

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Tim Bresnan took five wickets in the second innings but it was Stuart Broad who was named man-of-the-match after starring with both bat and ball

"With wickets falling at constant intervals it looked from an early stage like a draw was out of the equation but for much of the first two days the India win was looking the far more likelier result."

England go 2-0 up in the Series and followers of Michael Vaughan's column collect their winnings, as Stuart Broad puts in a man-of-the-match display in front of his home crowd.

England have edged a step closer to becoming the number one ranked Test team in the world after going 2-0 up in the Series. A win by a two-match margin would allow them to overtake India at the top of the pile.

Andrew Strauss will be extremely pleased at the way his side came from the brink of defeat to turn the match on its head but maybe not quite as happy as regular readers of Michael Vaughan's column on betting.betfair. The former England captain was very bullish about England's prospects of winning this Test and tipped them up to win pre-match at [2.16] and at the end of play on Saturday at [2.46]. The bigger profits however will have come to those who followed him on his advice that the Test match would end in the evening session of day four. The fact Trent Bridge is a result wicket and offers seam-friendly conditions led Vaughan to believe that for the first time this summer an England Test match wouldn't go the distance, tipping a late finish on Monday at [8.0] pre-match and then again at [2.7] in his mid-Test update.

With wickets falling at constant intervals it looked from an early stage like a draw was out of the equation but for much of the first two days the India win was looking the far more likelier result. An old-fashioned England middle-order collapse was the story for most of day one before Stuart Broad played a destructive gem of an innings, hitting 64 to all parts of the ground. It was Broad who turned the tide once more on Saturday evening. With the immovable object that is Rahul Dravid well set, Yuvraj Singh looking dangerous and MS Dhoni still to come, it looked like India would have a big lead at the end of their innings and traded at just [1.46] with England out to [11.5] But Broad took his first-ever Test hat-trick when his country most needed him and the tail was soon dismissed. On day three Ian Bell scored a magnificent century before controversy struck and he was ably-assisted by the likes of Kevin Pietersen, Eoin Morgan and Tim Bresnan in scoring at a lightning-fast rate to set India a target of just under 500 on the morning of day four, which never looked to be on the cards. Tim Bresnan was the somewhat unlikely hero with the ball on Monday afternoon taking 5-30 with Broad once again, and James Anderson, also amongst the wickets.

Michael Vaughan will be back ahead of the Third Test with his tips and England can expect a back-lash of sorts from MS Dhoni's side, who could well have star bowler Zaheer Khan back from injury and may also welcome back the explosive Virender Sehwag to the top of the order after injury.

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