England win by 1 wicket. India scored 290 despite nobody scoring a fifty.
Nah come on, that was fine. What is an issue is if he let their sledging get to him when batting. You gotta be prepared to cop a few if you are gonna dish it out.
Yeah that's what I meant. No problem with his antics on Day 3 but he has no leg to stand on if it affects his game to that extent.
To be honest, I think its still early days for him and he will get better at all this. What was not acceptable was the way we batted in the last session two days in a row, both on day 3 and day 4.
My worry is he obviously focused incredibly hard to iron out those extreme chinks in his batting in the first two Tests but literally every one of them was back as soon as he was under the pump. And no, there was no extravagant movement here which we knew to be his kryptonite. Be fascinating to see if and how he subdues those issues again.
I mean, there was such a quick turnaround between the tests too. Its not like he had too much time but the game is a great leveller and if he really is to become a great batsman, he will figure it out. And I think he will.
Completely agree.
Yeah people just bash Virat but man did that Virat-Shaz era make this side tough.
It was by far their most impressive trait IMO. Very different sort of self-confidence to the sort Gambhir seems to be pushing too.
Look, I would still give GG the series to figure this out as this is really the first series where he is calling the shots. But so far, the indications are, he is a far better white ball coach than red ball. India need to get more ruthless with the bat and that starts with Jaiswal and Nair getting their acts together. Gill was obviously praised to the moon and you kinda expect a "crash back to earth" kind of match after the last one. It would really tell us the character of this side and this management, the way they come back from this for the rest of the series.
oh look we have dr spark the psychiatrist today
**** off fatty
