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 had been diminished 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 ship good alerts to Kohli. To the world’s greatest batsman that you just bat down. Until Kohli himself requested for it; then it’s completely different matter. We don’t know what happenned in change room. But it surely’s onerous to grasp. Axar has performed nicely, after all,” Gavaskar mentioned on Star Sports activities.
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.
“Regardless of left-hander or not, let Rishabh Pant come into bat subsequent tomorrow,” Gavaskar mentioned. His level was even when Axar Patel continues to be there, it must be Pant who ought to be a part of him on the crease. “Let this left-hand right-hand experiment cease,” Gavaskar mentioned with a smile.
Gavaskar additionally questioned the slip-catching strategy of Indians. Kohli dropped a number of robust possibilities at slip and Gavaskar identified how Indians don’t “crouch low for spinners. They stand too upright with arms on knees. It’s stunning that their coach is Rahul Dravid, who might be the one Indian with greater than 200 catches and an ideal 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 attempt make issues troublesome for bowlers.