Ravichandran Ashwin and Jasprit Bumrah
The third match of the Test series between India and England will be played from February 15 at Rajkot ground. In this match, once again all eyes will be on the performance of Indian team’s fast bowler Jasprit Bumrah, who made the most important contribution to the team’s victory by taking a total of 9 wickets in the second test. Now, while giving a statement regarding Bumrah, former fast bowler of Team India, Zaheer Khan has said that like the first two test matches, the pitch of the third match will also be similar and in such a situation, once again we will see the magic of Bumrah’s reverse swing. can get.
Expected good competition between bat and ball in the first two days
Zaheer Khan said on Jio Cinema about the Rajkot Test match that he hopes the pitch will be like Hyderabad and Visakhapatnam. On such a pitch, there should be a good contest between bat and ball for the first two days and then from the third day onwards the spinners can be seen dominating. You will also see some reverse swing and the spinners will dominate on the fourth and fifth days. On the other hand, Zaheer Khan said about the playing 11 of the Indian team in the Rajkot Test match that India will need to take some difficult decisions in view of the return of Ravindra Jadeja in the playing eleven on home ground. It’s going to be another headache as to who you will pick in the team. It will be Akshar Patel, it will be Kuldeep Yadav or you will choose all of them. He said that India will have to think about whether you need an extra bowler with Bumrah.
England team’s middle order will not face Bumrah
Regarding the Rajkot Test match, apart from Zaheer Khan, former England team player Owais Shah also seemed to completely agree with him and said that it is not going to be an easy task at all for the middle order of the England team to face Bumrah in the Rajkot Test. , Because when he reverse swings the ball, he does not give runs along with taking wickets, in such a situation the English batsmen will definitely have to face a lot of difficulty.
(PTI INPUTS)
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