Having seen Ishan Kishan’s exploits within the Indian Premier League (IPL), England opener Jason Roy was not shocked in any respect when he noticed the younger left-hander taking the sport away from his workforce within the second T20 International on the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad.
Making his India debut, Kishan smashed a 32-ball 56 to assist India degree the five-match collection on Sunday (March 14).
“He’s obviously a star player, he’s done that for Mumbai Indians, numerous amounts of time so I wasn’t surprised when I saw him kind of teeing off a bit because everyone knows he’s a star player so good on him,” Roy mentioned in a digital media interplay with the UK media.
“A couple of times he might have got a little bit wrong with the ball but he capitalised by hitting it for six. It’s just a case of just making sure you kind of execute your skills extremely well.”
India have come into the collection with the intention of taking part in extra fearless cricket, which was on show within the second T20. England, alternatively, are already used to that model of cricket.
“It has worked for us in 50 overs cricket, it worked for us in kind of 10 T20 games we’ve played. Our policy is to play aggressive cricket, but the problem is, when you’re playing on pitches like this you have to be a little bit more calculated. You have to assess it a bit quicker,” mentioned Roy.
“If you want to play that way, you got to accept that some days it’s not going to go that way. You are going to be three-four down in a powerplay. But with the depth of our batting lineup, that’s the opportunity it gives to the top order batsmen,” Roy mentioned.
On a turning pitch, England struggled with the ball of their makes an attempt to defend 164 on a pitch that supplied much less for his or her quick bowlers and it is prone to be the case for the third T20 as nicely.
“They are difficult but just as difficult as our spinners to face as well. We’ve almost learned enough already, that we should be kind of capitalising on what we’ve learned in this series but just last night we made a few mistakes,” he mentioned.
Roy has been per scores of 49 and 46 however has not transformed into a large knock and that is one thing he needs to do within the remaining video games.
“It was a sort of pitch the place you’ve bought to select your bowler. Unfortunately the bowler I picked bought me out. I used to be seeking to goal Washington…
“If that over had gone for a few runs, it would have swayed the momentum of our innings quite a bit. What I learned was just to make sure I’m staying on my shots a little bit more. I missed a couple of my reverse sweeps. I was out of position, and then rectified that during my innings,” he mentioned.
Roy termed India a class workforce however mentioned they’re assured to bounce again on Tuesday (March 16). “The boys have bounced back, we’re a fast-learning side. I don’t think there’s been a huge amount of wind out of our sails to be honest,” he concluded.
