‘India “handed” Rishabh Pant’s runs back to England’: Ex-England captain questions Shubman Gill’s captaincy | Cricket News

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NEW DELHI: England asserted their dominance on Day 2 of the fourth Test in opposition to India at Old Trafford, Manchester, ending Thursday’s play at 225/2. A commanding 166-run opening stand between Ben Duckett and Zak Crawley laid the muse, serving to England shut in on India’s first innings whole of 358. The deficit now stands at simply 133 runs, regardless of Rishabh Pant’s earlier half-century.Duckett and Crawley resumed the ultimate session at 77 with out loss and continued to pile on the runs. Duckett reached his fifty with a boundary off Shardul Thakur, which additionally took England previous the 100-run mark.Crawley wasn’t far behind, mentioning his personal half-century by driving Thakur to the boundary within the twenty first over. England crossed 150 within the twenty ninth over, courtesy of one other Duckett boundary—this break day Mohammed Siraj.Former England skipper Nasser Hussain didn’t maintain back in his criticism of India’s bowling and captaincy. “Slightly changing conditions, but they bowled very poorly. A change in overhead conditions doesn’t make you bowl both sides of the wicket. Too many balls on the pads. Captain’s decisions… didn’t quite agree with, to be honest. Kamboj wasn’t in the squad a week ago, to bring him into the team and give him a new ball ahead of Siraj… seems odd,” Hussain stated on Sky Sports.He continued: “I would’ve gone for Siraj for a short burst, then switched him to the other end to follow Bumrah. We’ve all been talking about the green channel on the strip across… this is the end where Stokes bowled and got his fifer, and got uneven bounce and sideways movement. Everything that could go wrong has gone wrong.”

The former captain added: “Rishabh Pant went out there on one leg, and got valuable runs today. They’ve just handed those runs back to England.”The breakthrough lastly got here within the thirty second over when Ravindra Jadeja dismissed Crawley for 84 off 113 balls, breaking the opening stand at 166.England misplaced their second wicket at 197, with debutant Anshul Kamboj claiming his first Test scalp by eradicating Duckett for 94 from 100 deliveries.England crossed 200 within the thirty ninth over, with Ollie Pope discovering the boundary off Kamboj.At stumps, Pope and Joe Root had added an unbeaten 28-run partnership.For India, Kamboj returned figures of 1/48 from 10 overs, whereas Jadeja ended the day with 1/37 in 8 overs.