Former Australian player Brad Hogg expressed dissatisfaction with how Harry Brook bowled in the final stages of Day 5 at Old Trafford as well. The veteran also believed that Brook should have looked at how Joe Root bowled on Day 5 and tried to do the same as well.

Speaking on his YouTube channel, Hogg said, “The way that Brook bowled to Jadeja in that over that allowed him to get that hundred, I wasn’t too happy about that. I have great regard for Brook. I love the way he bats. He’s just got so much talent. But in that particular situation, yes, you want to come off. You think it is the right thing to come off. But at the end of the day, Sundar and Jadeja and India had the right to reward those two particular players for getting a century, especially Sundar, because he’s done so well as an all-rounder, and it was his first opportunity of getting a hundred.”

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“But when he bowled that over to Jadeja, that was just a little bit of an issue. He could do what Joe Root did and not allow the opposition player to get that easy hundred. Make him work for it, and if you make him work for it, you could have got him out, and India would have looked a little bit silly at that particular stage for continuing the game to get Jadeja’s hundred,” he further added.

However, Team India’s number five and number six batters, Washington Sundar and Ravindra Jadeja, added 203 runs for the fifth wicket in the final day at Old Trafford and helped India draw the match. Brad Hogg also praised the duo for their performances as well.

“These two, I just loved the way they went about it. They had to bat three (two) sessions to save the Test match for India. Sundar, he’s gone up the order. He was playing and missing a couple of balls, but he did not let it affect him. The other thing is that when they were getting closer to their hundreds at the back end, they didn’t try to go after the bowling to try and get their hundreds because they knew if they had lost a wicket or two, then England could fire up and if England had got 10 overs or 12 overs, they could probably go after a reasonable total and knock it off as well. So, they did the job right to the end,” Brad Hogg concluded.