If 40 overs of play was potential, we might have created probabilities: Joe Root
England skipper Joe Root on Sunday stated that his bowlers might have created alternatives in case that they had a shot for a minimum of 40 overs on the Indian batters on the washed out remaining day of the primary Test.
The match resulted in a draw after India have been 52 for 1, chasing 209 within the fourth innings.
“I think from our perspective, at one stage, we could have potentially 40 overs, in that period, (I) felt like we would have been able to create many chances on surface like that,” Root stated on the post-match press convention.
“So in many ways actually, the weather has robbed us all, of a fantastic final day’s test cricket, which is shame,” Root stated.
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According to Root, the sport might have turned on its head on the floor which was used within the match however India have been barely forward.
“India were probably in the driver’s seat going in today. We know on a wicket like that, get a couple of wickets across that, the game can turn on its head,” Root stated.
But he opined that Indian batsmen would have felt the pressures of batting on a fifth day floor.
“The pressures of batting on the fifth day wicket, things can very quickly (could) have fallen in our favour. We certainly believed that we would have been able to create normal chances if we had been good enough in the field and taken those, could have been exciting, fortunately the weather has won,” he stated.
According to Root, his workforce “grew into the game very well” and after the primary innings, his workforce was nicely under par and 250 on that wicket was a robust first innings rating and it could have made life so much “trickier for India”.
Root additionally admitted that the workforce is aware of that there’s a lot to work on and they should catch higher and must make large first innings runs they usually have harped about it repeatedly.
The second Test of the five-match sequence might be performed from August 12 on the iconic Lord’s in London.
