India batting coach Sanjay Bangar heaped praises for India skipper Virat Kohli for his terrific performance with the bat on Day 2 of the first Test match against England. Speaking to reporters during the post-day press conference, Bangar said Kohli showed terrific discipline during his innings.
Talking about Virat’s innings of 149 runs, Sanjay said, “He (Kohli) showed terrific discipline I felt. At no instance did he reach out for the ball, and probably a couple of our other batsmen reached out, which caused their downfall. And on days, these things come off and on certain days those things don’t come out as a batter. Definitely, the batsmen are aware and are taking all efforts to correct the errors.”
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The Indian batting coach also went on to add that Kohli focuses more on the team’s performance rather than individual landmarks and that has helped India, to recover from a bad day. He said, “He’s a versatile player. The awareness that is required under certain conditions, but he does that really well. When he bats in that fashion, he more often than not gets the team into good positions. Passing an individual landmark doesn’t mean much to him, more than that if it’s a good day for him, he makes sure it’s a great day for him and the team. That’s why he got 149 and it narrowed down the gap beautifully.”
Team India had a decent start after bundling out England for 287 as the openers Shikhar Dhawan and Murali Vijay stitched a 50-run partnership, after which the wickets started falling like dominos, and the visitors were eventually bowled out for 274. Bangar criticized the batting performance for the rest of the team and said that they should have capitalized after a good start.
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Bangar explained, “Once we got a good start, we should’ve capitalized on it. But the openers handled the new ball really well, and the angles that were created by Sam Curran – credit to him that he could create those angles.”
With England losing Alastair Cook before the end of day’s play, Sanjay said that the match is evenly poised at the moment. England finished off the second day with a score of 9/1 at stumps, having a lead of 22 runs at stumps.
