England hopeful of Trott's fitness

England are hopeful that Jonathan Trott will be able to play a part in their second innings at Trent Bridge even though the batsman left the ground in a sling following a nasty injury at mid-off.

Trott dived to stop a drive from Rahul Dravid in the 48th over of the innings and it was immediately clear he was in trouble as he stayed on the ground and team-mates called for the physio. Initially it appeared it may have been a dislocation, but he made his own way off.

Subsequent scans at hospital showed no bone damage and a decision will be taken in the morning whether he bats although it's unlikely to be in the top order.

"It was quite an awkward one," Stuart Broad said. "He dived for the ball and his shoulder got caught in the turf and the momentum of his body went over on it. He was in quite a bit of pain, he's been for a scan and I don't think it's shown any major structural damage it's just very sore.

"Hopefully he'll sleep well and pull up okay, but I can't imagine him batting in the top six he'll probably need a bit of time. Hopefully he can play a part tomorrow or the next day."

In Trott's absence Ian Bell came in at No. 3 on the second evening after Alastair Cook fell cheaply and survived to the close alongside Andrew Strauss. However, England will need all their batting resources as they aim to overhaul India's lead of 67 and set a testing fourth-innings target. Graeme Swann is also carrying an injury on his left hand after being struck on the opening day by Praveen Kumar and didn't field in his normal position at slip.

"We are fighting hard in this Test and it will be a massive day tomorrow," Broad said. "We need to bat big and one guy needs to get a big hundred then we are right in the game because bowling last on that wicket could be an advantage for us."

Trott is dangerous to U guys

TROtt out
bopara in

post in INDIA VS ENGLAND 2011 thread

EVn finn is in

Finn in ??????????

yeh
13 man squad

Ohh Gosh..!

Hes a Demonstrator..!He is unpredictable..some times Worst and Some times he may pick up 10 wickets tooo

buh i dont thnik he ll b in playing XI

yeah..!because theres some threat from TIM BRESNAN

i think finn is in coz of injury to tremlett

But Bresnan is there

yeh
evn zaheer out
rp in

bt FInn is dangerous then Tremlett i guess

And TROTT is not sidlened JSt OPTION brought

Trott is not there in squad :|

Finn in the Squad

Finn --a tall smiling giant

Bopara 10 T matches -- 3 hundreds .hope he goona give competetion tyo TROTTY

he ll play

hope so

he will

same comment

LOl

yaa he will