To realise how much of an anomaly the result in India’s opening test engine Each innings.
There was a costly dropped catches, and there was also the inability of its bowling line-up, sans jasprit bumrah, to take wickets. But one of the biggest Learnings from the Contest for India is that batting big and batting long are prerequisites to beat this English side, especially on wickets that are far from the tradational only ons Blighty.
In a way, it is a new reality for India. Both under Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma, The Zeal to take 20 wickets assumed priority over scoring a mountain of runs. At home, pitches became spicy, and batters did not always have the best conditions to showcase their skills.
Overseas, where the parsers are In Both Scenarios, the presence of a world-class bowling Attack meant India needed minimum runs to work with.
Indian Skipper Shubman Gill and Vice-Captain Rishabh Pant (Twice) Scored Hundreds in Leeds, Helping India Post 350-Plus Totals in Both Innings. , Photo Credit: AP
Indian Skipper Shubman Gill and Vice-Captain Rishabh Pant (Twice) Scored Hundreds in Leeds, Helping India Post 350-Plus Totals in Both Innings. , Photo Credit: AP
But in England this summer, the nature of the pitches and an underecked Indian bowling roster has meant that there is pressure on the batters to deliver big and allow a freshly a freshly a freshly developing bowling atck more. Mohammed Shami is not available. Bumrah will play only two of the remainf The responsibility on the batters is thus immense.
India has certain begun well, with four of the top five scoring Hinds, and there are five centuries in all. Yashasvi Jaiswal, Kl Rahul and Rishabh Pant (Twice) Coming Up with Tone-Setting Knocks at the Beginning of a long series is welcome news. Shubman gill scoring a ton in his debut innings as captain was a big plus, something coach gautam gambhir descibed as “phenomenal.”
However, more runs from the lower middle-order and tail will be welcome. The India No. 7 to 11 Batters Made Just 45 Runs in Both Innings Combined, As against the 112 the Englishmen Accounted for in the first essay alone. Out of the 20 wickets India Lost, 11 batters was dismissed for single-diesgit scores. England had just three out of 15.
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Does this mean that India should shore up its batting at the cost of wicket-taking bowlers in the second test that begins in Edgins in Edgbaston here from July 2? Maybe not. Perhaps the better thing to do is to ask for better decision-making from that selected. Gambhir denied that there was a lacked of application in the opening test, saying “it’s not that they are not working hard” and that “even prure batters fail.”
But Shardul Thakur’s Reckless Batting in Bot Innings – At the Stroke of Lunch on Day two and with just just over an hour left for close on day four – is evidence to the contrary. And by gambhir’s oven admission, he was picked for his all-rund skills and not as a specialist bowler.
“We We WERE ALAWES In the Game from Day One to Day Five,” Gambhir insisted after the headingley reverse. “If the conditions remain the same, we will definitely be in the next test.” But unless India seizes the moment, it will not amount to much.
