Former Australian cricketer Brad Hogg said that one of the biggest turning points in the third Test between India and England was when Joe Root dropped Rohit Sharma as well. He was just on 27 and it could have made the hosts four wickets down within the first session as well. However, Hogg feels that would have exposed debutant Sarfaraz Khan to the raw pace of Mark Wood upfront as well.

In a video on his YouTube channel, Brad Hogg said: “Joe Root not taking that catch of Rohit Sharma on the first morning when India were three down was a costly miss. That denied Sarfaraz Khan coming in with India four down and Wood still fresh. Sarfaraz will thank Root for not taking that catch and he was lucky. But he took his opportunity and did really well. He is going to have a bright future.”

However, Sarfaraz Khan had a great outing in both innings with scores of 62 & 68* as well. On the other hand, Joe Root continued to have a poor series and he came under the scanner. Joe Root has scored just 77 runs in the series so far from six innings as well.

On this, Brad Hogg said: “You need to know that Joe Root has scored a lot of runs playing that shot. And now that he has been dismissed twice that way in recent times, people are questioning him. He shouldn’t be questioned. For me he needs to keep playing that shot if he needs to keep putting pressure on the opposition bowlers.”

Brad Hogg again shared, “England tried to score as quickly as possible to avoid batting in the conditions they did on Day 4 where they got bundled out. I thought England’s approach was perfect and we’re set up nicely by Duckett. You wanted to get ahead of India as quickly as possible and it just didn’t come off. You play by the sword, you die by the sword.”