India had misplaced two wickets within the chase of the 145-run goal once they despatched the left-handed Axar Patel forward of Virat Kohli at No. 4. India have been lowered to 45 for 4 at stumps on day 3 with Axar unbeaten on 26.
Former India captain Sunil Gavaskar wasn’t fairly happy with the transfer.
“It doesn’t send good signals to Kohli. To the world’s best batsman that you bat down. Unless Kohli himself asked for it; then it’s different matter. We don’t know what happenned in change room. But it’s hard to understand. Axar has played well, of course,” Gavaskar stated on Star Sports.
It didn’t assist Kohli a lot as he fell to only 1 in 22 balls, edging to short-leg. Bangladesh’s off spinner Mehidy Miraz shocked the Indians with a three-wicket haul from his 8 overs to show the stress on India, who now want 100 extra runs to win. India additionally despatched in a nightwatchman Jaydev Unadkat, who remained unbeaten.
“Irrespective of left-hander or not, let Rishabh Pant come into bat next tomorrow,” Gavaskar stated. His level was even when Axar Patel remains to be there, it ought to be Pant who ought to be a part of him on the crease. “Let this left-hand right-hand experiment stop,” Gavaskar stated with a smile.
Gavaskar additionally questioned the slip-catching strategy of Indians. Kohli dropped a number of robust probabilities at slip and Gavaskar identified how Indians don’t “crouch low for spinners. They stand too upright with hands on knees. It’s surprising that their coach is Rahul Dravid, who is probably the only Indian with more than 200 catches and a great catcher …”
Later, Mohammad Siraj would clarify the Axar promotion thus: It’s administration’s name. I feel it was due to left-hand, right-hand mixture to strive make issues troublesome for bowlers.
