A mistake by Ravindra Jadeja gave Team India a chance to return.Image Credit Source: PTI
On the tour of England, Team India performed well on several occasions but still lagged behind the hosts in the series. The major reason for this is the lack of discipline in the team, whether it is fielding or bowling and batting on some occasions. Mistakes ranging from leaving the catch to noball and run-outs were heavy to Team India. But one such mistake on the second day of the fourth Test match in Manchester benefited Team India. This mistake was made by star all-rounder Ravindra Jadeja, who has often caused trouble due to no-ball, but this time he benefited the team.
Team India’s first innings was reduced to 358 runs on the second day of the Test match on Thursday 24 July at the Old Trafford Stadium. After this, England started their batting and its openers touched Team India for the wicket. The pair of Jack Crolee and Ben Docket for the first time after the second innings of the Leeds Test made a big partnership and added more than 150 runs within 30 overs. By this time, Team India did not get a single wicket and both had a half -century.
Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammad Siraj and Shardul Thakur as well as new bowlers Anshul Kamboj were also proving to be completely failed. In such a situation, Ravindra Jadeja was eyeing but he was not able to do anything special and was proving to be expensive. Then came the 32nd over and on the last ball of this over, Jack Crolya hit a great four. But as soon as all the players started preparing for the next over, the third umpire declared Jadeja’s ball a no-ball.
In such a situation, all the fielders had to return to their position again for the last ball. At the same time, Jadeja also had to come back to bowl. But the biggest loss of this was to Croly, because his focus had deteriorated by then and Team India took advantage. Jadeja then returned for the last ball and he got Croly out of this ball to KL Rahul posted in slip. In this way, Team India broke a big 166 -run partnership and achieved first success.
Team India got this success with great difficulty and shortly after, it got the result as the second wicket. This time this work was done by debutant Anshul Kamboj. The Haryana fast bowler got the second opener Ben Docket caught by the wicketkeeper and thus opened his account in international cricket. The special thing was that Kamboj stopped Docket from a century in this way and returned the pavilion for 94 runs. By the end of the day’s play, these two wickets raised hope for Team India. However, England scored 225 runs losing 2 wickets.
