Team India managed to pull level at 1-1 in the five-match Test series following their 106-run win in the second Test in Vizag.
The hosts put up 396 runs in the first innings before bundling out the tourists for 253 runs, and went on to pile another 255 runs before wrapping up the English second innings for 292 runs to post the big win.
Yashasvi Jaiswal’s maiden double ton in the first innings and Shubman Gill’s fighting ton in the second were crucial factors in the win, but what stood out in the triumph was Jasprit Bumrah’s deadly bowling that yielded six wickets and three wickets respectively in each innings of the game.
Bumrah produced some stellar deliveries to get rid of top-rated English batsmen including skipper Ben Stokes, Ollie Pope and Joe Root, which pushed the home nation to the victory.
Former English player Michael Atherton lauded the Indian pacer for his unplayable deliveries that bamboozled the English batters.
Bumrah has managed to pick up the precious wicket of Stokes twice in the four innings the left-hander has played this series and Atherton suggested that the English skipper has found it difficult to negotiate with Bumrah’s change in pace and bounce.
“Picking with the speed of the ball is tough with him and I’ve noticed with Stokes, even Stokes actually is an excellent player of fast bowling. He’s hurried with Bumrah. He struggles to pick up the pace, and a couple of times when he’s got him, it looks as though the ball has kept low, which has but it also almost beaten him for pace as well. I think that’s the issue with Bumrah,” the former England skipper said.
Bumrah’s delivery to get rid of Pope was a peach which saw the English batter’s stumps uprooted completely, and Atherton was gung-ho about the ball that sent Pope back to the hut.
“It was spectacular yorker wasn’t it? I don’t see what Pope could’ve done with that. It was an unbelievable image as Pope walked back,” Atherton said.
The Indian pacer was also responsible for the dismissal of veteran playe Root and Atherton opined that players who have a rhythmic style of play and move around a bit before playing their shots might find it difficult to play Bumrah as compared to those such as Zak Crawley, who stands still and gets his shots away.
“A kind of stuttering run-up and suddenly like a thunderbolt at 90 miles an hour. So, if you’re a person like Root who has kind of pre-movements. Some batters like Zak Crawley for example stand very still, he just stands there and plays the shot,” the 55-year-old said.
“Whereas most batters have triggers or pre-movements, and Root is one of those, he has kind of rhythmical back and forward and that I think is the problem,” Atherton added.
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