England National Cricket Team pace-bowling great Stuart Broad has openly blamed the young India National Cricket Team opening batsman Yashasvi Jaiswal for the loss of the visitors in the Lord’s Test match.
Stuart Broad believes that Yashasvi Jaiswal played a “really bad shot” that led to his dismissal and helped the hosts make a comeback in the third Test match of the Anderson-Tendulkar Trophy.
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Yashasvi Jaiswal fails miserably in the Lord’s Test
The young opening batsman Yashasvi Jaiswal was in good form leading up to the Lord’s Test match and had a big responsibility on his shoulders to provide India with good starts.
In the first two Tests in Headingley and Birmingham, he had played two crucial knocks of 101 and 87 runs, and a similar kind of performance was expected from him in London.
However, the left-handed batsman disappointed everyone and was unable to deal with the threat of Jofra Archer. In the first innings, he fell to the returning pacer for 8-ball 13 in the 2nd over.
Also, in the second innings, Jofra Archer bowled a 141 kmph back-of-a-length delivery to Yashasvi Jaiswal, who tried to smash it with a flat bat and ended up giving an easy catch to Jamie Smith to fall for a duck.
He is the player who moves the scoreboard forward – Stuart Broad on Yashasvi Jaiswal
Speaking on the ‘For The Love Of Cricket’ podcast, Stuart Broad said that the explosive openers like Virender Sehwag and David Warner had the ability to take the game away from the opposition, and Yashasvi Jaiswal falls in that category.
However, the legendary pacer expressed his surprise over Yashasvi Jaiswal’s approach during the run chase of 193 runs and slammed him for playing a poor shot off Jofra Archer. He elaborated:
“In a low chase, when you are defending, if you come to bowl and you’ve got a Sehwag, Warner, the opening batters that can take the game away from you and they up 60 for none or one off ten, the game is sort of done. So Jaiswal getting out, really bad shot, I’m surprised. He just didn’t look to cut it over the off-side, suddenly England are like okay, we are in. He is the player who moves the scoreboard forward.
“As soon as Karun Nair came in, he is someone who plays each ball on merit, then England could control it and set attacking fields, create pressure. So I thought that was a really big moment. England making that breakthrough early, Jaiswal gone,” he added.
It is incredibly frustrating as a fielding side – Jos Buttler opens up on Ravindra Jadeja’s knock
Ravindra Jadeja kept India in the hunt on Day 5 of the Lord’s Test with his good batting performance and stitched together crucial runs with Jasprit Bumrah and Mohammed Siraj.
However, Jadeja was unable to steer India to a victory as he didn’t receive the desired support from the other end and remained unbeaten at 61 runs off 181 balls.
While talking about Ravindra Jadeja’s performance during the same conversation, Jos Buttler stated that the all-rounder frustrated England and kept them under pressure when he was in the middle.
“It is incredibly frustrating as a fielding side. You’re like how do we get six balls out of the non-recognized batter. But then if you did bring the field up and Jadeja went four, four or four, six and suddenly scrambled one off the next ball, its a lot of runs. So England played the patient game. You genuinely believe that we will get this, our chance will come. We will get our chance to win the game but there is that guy on your shoulder,” he said.
