The draw in the Second Test match at the Old Trafford was clearly in England's favour for India were lett with only five wickets to go and 22 runs on the score sheet after passing England's first innings total. Never: theless the visitors achieved what might be regarded as their best pet formance (of the tour in forcings raw on their formidable opponents, although, obviously, the weather play ed ils part in the performance, With Major C. X. Nayadu out the remaining five Indian wickets did not riy special problem, for Amar Singh could: be quite safely allowed to hit out as the process would not waste time, "Thus the England eleven, if the match had been played out to the clock and not. curtailed by" the weather, might just have snatched the necessary runs for victory. At all events the result should put the Indians in good heart for the final Test Match which is due to begin at the Oval on August 15.
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