India captain Shubman Gill accused England of not playing in the ‘spirit of the game’ after the dwelling workforce openers Ben Duckett and Zak Crawley walked out late on the third night of the third Test at Lord’s.
According to Gill, with simply seven minutes remaining earlier than the stumps had been drawn, the England openers had been 90 seconds late. As a end result, India may solely bowl one over and tensions flared between the two groups.
“The English batsmen on that day had seven minutes of play left. They were 90 seconds late to come to the crease. Not 10, not 20, but 90 seconds late. Yes, most of the teams use this (tactics). If we were in the same position, we would have also liked to play lesser overs, but there is a manner to do it,” Gill stated on the eve of the fourth Test.
“We felt, yes, if you get hit on your body, the physios are allowed to come on. That is something that is fair. But to come 90 seconds late to the crease is not something that is in the spirit of the game. And just leading up to that event, a lot of things that we thought should not have happened, had happened,” Gill stated.
As Crawley slowed issues down, Gill acquired into an animated dialog.“It was not something that I am very proud of. But there was a build-up to that. We had no intention of doing that whatsoever. But you are playing a game, you are playing to win and there are a lot of emotions involved. And when you see things that should not happen happening, sometimes the emotions come out of nowhere,” Gill added.
