Former Australian leg-spinner, Shane Warne England’s approach in the ongoing Chennai Test against India was criticized by former Australia spinner Shane Warne. England, despite getting a healthy first-innings lead of 241 as they mnagaed to bundled out the hosts for 337, went for a rather conservative approach in their second innings. England’s decision of not declaring their innings or going for quick runs left Warne and former English skipper, Michael Vaughan baffled.
While Vaughan urged England to get on with the game, Shane Warne questioned why the visitors are “letting the game drift”. He tweeted, “What is going on with your cricket team ? What on Earth are they doing just letting the game drift ? Why aren’t they bowling ? England wouldn’t want to not be able to bowl India out now after batting to long in both innings.”
What is going on with your cricket team ? What on Earth are they doing just letting the game drift ? Why aren’t they bowling ? England wouldn’t want to not be able to bowl India out now after batting to long in both innings !! https://t.co/gfhjxyeGLr
— Shane Warne (@ShaneWarne) February 8, 2021
On Monday, the visiting team was bundled out for 178 in their second innings, setting India a target of 420 runs for the win. For the Indian team, Ravichandran Ashwin picked up his 28th Test five-wicket haul, returning with figures of six for 61. Earlier in the day, Washington Sundar was the highest scorer for the hosts as he played an unbeaten knock of 85 as wickets fell from the other end.
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None of the last three Indian batsmen managed to batter long enough in order to given time for Sundar to score his maiden Test centuaround with Sundar as India were bowled out for 337, giving away a huge first-innings lead to England.
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England, in their first innings, had posted a mammoth total of 578 thanks to their skipper Joe Root’s brilliant double century and even in the second innings, he played a dominating knock of 40 off just 32 balls.
