Former England skipper Joe Root has been struggling for runs within the ongoing five-match Test sequence towards India and the way of his dismissals hasn’t helped his trigger. Root, who returned scores of 29, 2, 5 and 16 within the first two Tests, obtained out reverse-scooping Jasprit Bumrah within the first innings of the third Test match in Rajkot to the second slip. Root has come underneath the scanner for taking part in wild photographs regardless of the lean patch and towards a bowler of high quality of Bumrah, who has been on a roll within the ongoing sequence.
Former India and England gamers together with the likes of RP Singh, Michael Vaughan and Ravi Shastri have blasted Root for his strokeplay and ignorance. Singh even went on to say that if somebody in home cricket performed that shot and obtained out, his profession would have been over.
“The shot Joe Root played, if someone had played such a shot at domestic or club level, his career might have gotten over. He would have been asked to first correct things and come as you can’t play like that,” RP Singh stated on Colors Cineplex.
“I am not able to think how the support staff would see that shot. I never thought such a compact player would play this shot and that too against Jasprit Bumrah. He might have thought two days ago that he would try something unique as Bumrah was anyway going to dismiss him,” Singh added.
Singh stated that Root had considerably a Bumrah syndrome in his thoughts and that was his means of preserving the Indian strike bowler at bay, which did not work. “There was a match being played in between this match. Jasprit Bumrah has been on top of him (Root) in this series and he has been dismissed in different fashions. It’s not that he has been dismissed similarly. I would say it’s more in Joe Root’s mind that he needs to be careful against Jasprit Bumrah,” the previous Indian pacer additional added.
Root’s dismissal triggered a large collapse for England as they went from 224/2 to 319 all-out earlier than India smashed 430 runs and set a large goal of 557 runs for the guests to chase within the fourth innings.
