Former England captain Nasser Hussain criticized England’s batters for failing to score even 200 runs (combining both innings) in the Day-Night Test against India and said they looked like ‘scared rabbits’ in the second inning in front of the spinners. Indians. .
Agreeing that the field in Ahmedabad for the third India vs England test match was tough to hit, Hussain said it was certainly not one where you got bounced 81.
“England looked like scared rabbits in that second inning. I don’t think it was an 81 total pitch, but this was a much harder pitch than Chennai.” Hussain said on ‘Sky Sports Cricket Podcast’.
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England were eliminated by 112 in the first innings. They came back hard to hit India by 145, but again they found themselves wanting against India spinners Ravichandran Ashwin and Axar Patel to be eliminated for their lowest test score against India of 81 in the second inning.
India then chased the 49-run goal with 10 wickets in hand to go 2-1 up in the four-game series.
“Especially on this field, where one spins prodigiously and the other skates, you lose all kinds of rhythm. That’s what successive test matches on these kinds of fields do for your way of thinking,” Hussain added.
Left arm spinner Axar Patel, who was the destroyer-in-chief, relentlessly hit the good length areas to fool England hitters into a throw of 11 for 70.
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“Axar is very accurate. He throws stump to stump and some balls spin and some don’t. Most of his windows come from balls that don’t spin, so people will look at him and say ‘why not play for those drop-offs? ? but it’s the ball first.
“You could also argue that it was that pitch earlier in Chennai that everything turned big, but it was also the ball that turned big on Zak Crawley on the first day here. Every batter in England thought ‘I have to go hit a spin ‘but mostly I ended up with the one that didn’t spin, “added Hussain.
The 52-year-old, who represented England in 96 events, feels that England need to score well in the first innings to have a chance to win the next event.
“Now it’s about the mentality of that team and to be fair to them, much of the conversation about shooting and umpiring has come from outside the locker room. I haven’t heard a single England player say these conditions are. unfair “. Hussain said.
“They have to find a way and Zak Crawley’s first fifty innings were positive. The carrot is there, 2-2 with India will not be a bad result at all.” Even though I know it’s a long way off when England is paradise. It hit 200 in five innings. They have to score in the first inning, “he added.
(With PTI inputs)
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