Former India cricketer VVS Laxman was involved with the way in which high order batters together with Virat Kohli misplaced their wickets to England spinners. The high three—Shikhar Dhawan, Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli failed to learn the tweakers. While Adil Rashid dismissed Rohit Sharma and Shikhar Dhawan. Moeen Ali eliminated Kohli.
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“The dismissal of KL Rahul was really unfortunate but then both Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma will be disappointed when they see their dismissal in the replay. This has almost become a pattern against the spinners,” Laxman instructed Star Sports.
“Rohit not being able to read the googly against Adil Rashid. And then Virat Kohli looked to play through the off-side against the turn, giving himself room and then missing it. It’s definitely a cause of concern because Indian players are supposed to be excellent batsmen against spin bowling,” he added.
Earlier Rishabh Pant and Hardik Pandya hit stroke-filled half-centuries however Indian lower-order caved in meekly to accept a below-par 329 in opposition to England within the third and remaining ODI right here on Sunday. Pant’s glowing knock of 78 off 62 balls was nicely supported by Hardik (64 off 44 balls) however India misplaced their final 4 wickets for a mere eight runs to end at the least 30 runs brief on one other batting belter.
Pant, throughout his career-best knock plundered 4 maximums and 5 boundaries, whereas Hardik had 5 fours and 4 sixes throughout their 99-run stand for the fifth wicket. However Krunal Pandya’s (25 off 34 balls) critical limitations whereas dealing with specific tempo was uncovered by Mark Wood (3/34) as India misplaced the momentum throughout the remaining 10 overs regardless of good 103 run opening stand inside 15 overs between Rohit Sharma (37; 6×4) and Shikhar Dhawan (67 off 56; 10×4).
The senior Pandya at occasions was discovering it tough to carry his bat down in time whereas dealing with the tempo of Woods and didn’t get a single boundary consuming practically six overs of the innings. It was a day when India’s high order was troubled by English spinners with Adil Rashid’s (2/81 in 10 overs) googlies in successive overs eradicating Rohit and Dhawan.
