India had a mixed outing on the first day of the fourth Test, with Rishabh Pant sustaining a foot injury, and his participation in the rest of the match is now in serious doubt. Yashasvi Jaiswal (58) and KL Rahul (46) batted well but fell to poor shots as well. Sai Sudharshan also scored 61 but got out. And, former India batter Sanjay Manjrekar was concerned about the way Jaiswal and Rahul were out.
“When you look at the overall pie, you can see how wonderfully this Test match is going. There’s a promise of another intriguing test match. You saw the first session, an important one, go to India and then England, making that second session their own. We saw two set batters get out – KL Rahul and Yashasvi Jaiswal. You wonder. I don’t know whether I’m reading too much into it, whether it’s mental fatigue from the long series. These are guys who’ve got runs and somebody, you know. These aren’t batters who will get a 50 and let the advantage go. They didn’t quite dig in and get a big 100. Has that got something to do with, I thought, you know, mental stamina, the reserves that you need? They have played so well until now to drop another kind of level of, you know, commitment and grind, whether they have it in there,” Sanjay Manjrekar said on Jio Hotstar.
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Meanwhile, former England captain Nasser Hussain praised the veteran Indian opener KL Rahul after his strong run with the bat in the ongoing five-match Test series against England. Hussain, however, compared his batting approach in this series to England openers. He scored 46 runs off 98 balls with four boundaries.
“He has wonderful technique. He plays almost like an English opening batter, and it is a real valuable asset for this Indian side to have,” Hussain told Sky Sports.
Meanwhile, Team India head coach Ravi Shastri applauded the left-hand batter Yashasvi Jaiswal, who has scored 36 runs in the first session of the fourth Test as well.
“This tour of England will make Jaiswal twice the player he is. He was prepared to guts it out this morning after his failures at Lord’s – he gave respect to the conditions and the new ball. Then he started playing positive shots around half an hour before lunch – the uppercut, the slash over the slips,” Shastri added.
