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Former India cricketer Sanjay Manjrekar has criticised the Indian cricket crew for its choice for the fourth Check vs Australia on the Melbourne Cricket Floor. Rohit Sharma and co. had dropped Shubman Gill for the sport at MCG to make place for spin-bowling all-rounder Washington Sundar. India went on to endure a 184-run defeat within the sport because the batters did not even take the sport to a draw. Disillusioned with the end result, Majrekar identified that India should not have dropped Gill.
“You tried to address the batting uncertainties by getting a bowler who can bat. Nitish Kumar Reddy in the side at the expense of Shubman Gill or maybe Washy (Washinton Sudar at the expense of Gill). So, they left out a proper batter and in hindsight, you’d think on a pitch like this, the flattest pitch on all five days so far in the series, Shubman Gill would have been handy,” Manjrekar informed ESPNcricinfo.
Whereas Nitish scored a historic century in India’s first innings, Washington scored 55 runs throughout two innigns whereas additionally taking one wicket.
“Nitish Kumar Reddy did well and thankfully that help mattered. But it’s an approach that never works where Washington Sundar in the end was playing as a batter, and he’s never going to be as good as a top-order batter like Shubman Gill,” he added.
Jasprit Bumrah outshone everybody along with his impeccable bowling abilities as he accounted for 9 wickets within the sport, however India did not make the most of that and ultimately suffered a large defeat.
“There is a huge difference between Bumrah and the rest. Siraj, despite him being around and he’s a fine bowler, but there’s still a big distance between Siraj and Bumrah. Plus, when you look at Mitchell Starc and Siraj, Akash Deep and Scott Boland, overall the (Australian) seam attack is looking a lot better. Nathan Lyon as a spinner in these conditions is better than Washington and Ravindra Jadeja. So India will go into the final Test match knowing that their bowling attack is not adequate,” stated Manjrekar.
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