Former India player Ajay Jadeja has said that nothing apart from the toss went in India’s favour in the first Test against New Zealand in Bengaluru as well. He also added that the batters would be the most disappointed with their performances as well. Notably, India were bundled out for 46 after they opted to bat first as well.

Reviewing the game on Colors Cineplex, Jadeja said, “If we see today’s day, you won only the toss and lost everything else. The batting was probably the most disappointing. The team did what they could from their side in bowling. However, the fielding support was also missing. So the chances that came also slipped out of their hands.”

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“Such a day has come after a long time in Indian cricket, and that happens. You play almost 365 days, if you count your worst day among those, today might be that day. The scorecard shows it’s a huge day in history. Whatever the Indian team wanted didn’t happen today apart from winning the toss,” Jadeja again shared.

In the same discussion, Ajay Jadeja also opined on whose dismissal he was most disappointed with as well.

“I will not talk about an individual. If something is there, it’s the approach. Only Virat Kohli and Rishabh Pant, which is rare when we talk about Rishabh, got out while defending or to balls you felt could dismiss you. Apart from that, whether it was Sarfaraz Khan, Rohit Sharma or Yashasvi Jaiswal, the mode was attacking, which as a team you might be disappointed about,” he shared.

“When you won the toss and batted first, you also knew that you would have a few difficulties initially. Either you want to fight and pass that time, or the other approach is to go and attack so that you can change the opposition’s mindset. We didn’t get to see any batter willing to fight or struggle in a defensive way. This was aggressive fight but since that didn’t work today, everything will look bad,” Ajay Jadeja concluded.