Harsha Bhogle took a dig at double-centurion Yashasvi Jaiswal after the batter was dismissed by James Anderson. He felt the Southpaw should have played out Anderson carefully. Yashasvi scored 209 runs in 290 balls, including 19 fours and 7 sixes. India were bowled out for 396 runs, with James Anderson, Shoaib Bashir and Rehan Ahmed taking three wickets each, respectively.
The 22-year-old was running out of partners and decided to take on Anderson. It wasn’t a wrong ploy, considering the situation of India’s innings. But Harsha managed to find a flaw in one of the best knocks by an Indian batter.
“It was probably going to be Anderson’s last over. Maybe Jaiswal could have played him out and attacked the spinners. But what an innings. On a dream batting surface, the next best is 34. Without Jaiswal, it might have been very very tricky,” Harsha Bhogle wrote on X.
His opinion was not taken lightly by the fans.
Barring Yashasvi, all the other batters were disappointing as they failed to get going despite good batting conditions. There was no intention to stitch partnerships by taking singles and doubles.
Captain Rohit Sharma was stuck and managed 14 runs. Shubman got a start but couldn’t carry on.
Shreyas Iyer (27), Rajat Patidar (32), Axar Patel (27), Srikar Bharat (17) and Ravichandran Ashwin (20) had a chance to score big. Rohit’s team is trailing by 0-1 in the five-match Test series.