Shardul Thakur defended his bowling. (Photo-PTI)
In the fourth Test match against Team India, England made a strong start in their first innings. The hosts’ openers Jack Croly and Ben Docket shared 166 runs for the first wicket and pushed Team India to the backfoot. By the end of the day’s play, England have scored 225 runs at the loss of two wickets. The Indian team scored 358 runs in their first innings. In this way, the hosts are still 133 runs behind. The England batsmen took a lot of news from the bowlers of the visiting team and scored fast. During this, Shardul Thakur scored 35 runs in 5 overs. However, he has defended his bowling. The whole corpus broke on captain Shubman Gill. Which is raising the question whether the Indian captain is doing his own arbitrariness?
What did Shardul Thakur say?
After the end of the second day’s play, Shardul Thakur defended his bowling at the press conference. He said, “Giving bowling is the decision of the captain. Not in my hand. The captain decides when to bowl? I could have put two overs more today, but he is the captain’s decision. It is difficult to get rhythm after not playing in two Tests, but I try to use my experience”.
This statement of Shardul Thakur is questioning some decisions of captain Shubman Gill. Apart from this, not giving bowling to Washington Sundar is also raising big questions, while he took 4 wickets in the second innings of Lord’s Test match.
Why Washington did not bowl beautiful
Team India all -rounder Washington Sundar, who took 4 wickets in the second innings of Lord’s Test match, did not get a chance to throw a single ball on the second day of the Manchester Test match, while all the bowlers’ English batsmen were beating a lot. Captain Shubman Gill did not understand this decision.
However, Ravindra Jadeja took a wicket and told that the spinners are getting help on this wicket. Despite this, Shubman Gill did not bowl beautifully. Which is raising big questions. During this time, questions were also questioned on the batting of Rishabh Pant in the press conference.
Why did Rishabh Pant come for batting despite being injured?
Despite being injured, Rishabh Pant came to bat in the first innings and scored 54 runs in 75 balls. On this, Shardul Thakur said that this was always our plan… (Bring Rishabh Pant for batting). The medical team did a very good job, but he was still in a lot of pain.
He said that this will be his decision. He did not come by bus today, because he was in the hospital. When we were warm -up, he was not on the field. On the second day’s match, he said that whatever runs we scored in the first innings were a good effort, but we could not bowl well.
