Look to Shreyas Iyer and Cheteshwar Pujara: India captain Rohit Sharmas suggestion to the rest of the India batters after collapse in Indore Test
March 3, 2023
He further added, On the other hand, you have a Pujara. Pujara being Pujara. He likes to spend time in the middle, he wants to grind it out. That his way of doing it. It doesnt have to be the same way for everyone that is what we have spoken about. Find your own methods (to score). Whether it it number 11 or number 1. As long as the job gets done we are happy as a unit. The runs will not come from everyone.
Pujara was Indias top run scorer on day two, accumulating a gritty 59 off 142 deliveries in the second innings. However, even the determined number three was unable to avoid a collapse as Nathan Lyon bagged an 8-fer on Thursday.
Lyon should be at the top in my opinion. I have not played guys like Murali and Warner. Among the current crop he would be my number one overseas bowler to come and play here in India, the Indian captain said on the player of the match.
He has got so much consistency in his line and length. When someone is bowling with that accuracy you have to try and and do something different to score runs.
Matches lasting less than five days outside India as well
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With the wicket in Indore being another one in the ongoing 2023 Border Gavaskar Trophy to have induced a finish in less than three days, the Indian captain seemed furious with the talk around the same and suggested that it wasnt just India where Tests were ending in less than five days.
What can I say about that, people have to play well for the game to last five days, he said when asked about games finishing early. Games are not lasting for five days outside India as well. Yesterday the game got over in three days in South Africa. It is about skills. People have to adapt to skills. If pitches are helping the bowlers, the batters need to try and test their skills.
Friday, March 3, 2023 at 8:47 am