Sanjay Manjrekar recommended Ravindra Jadeja must follow just a little extra in opposition to spinners.© AFP
Former India batter Sanjay Manjrekar has questioned veteran all-rounder Ravindra Jadeja’s capacity to play spinners after he received out to Australia’s Nathan Lyon on Day 3 of the 4th Take a look at on Saturday. Jadeja was trapped lbw by Lyon on 13, misreading a supply which did not flip in any respect. Throughout a dialogue on Star Sports activities, Manjrekar admitted that whereas Jadeja appeared greater than snug in opposition to the pacers, his struggles had been evident as soon as Lyon was introduced into the assault by captain Pat Cummins.
“He performed the quick bowlers loads and performed them very nicely. He did not make even a slight mistake in opposition to the quick bowlers. Nevertheless, as soon as Nathan Lyon got here, he was anticipating off-spin, that the ball would flip. His bat got here for the off-spin and the ball was not turning in any respect. So he performed with that mindset,” Manjrekar mentioned.
Manjrekar recommended Jadeja must follow just a little extra in opposition to spinners.
“It looks like Jadeja must follow just a little extra in opposition to spin as a result of he’s wanting completely snug in opposition to seam. He used to play very nicely in opposition to spin earlier however it occurs that if you play abroad, you begin taking part in quick bowling nicely and your focus is barely faraway from spin. If solely quick bowlers had been there, Jadeja would have performed a giant knock,” he added.
Manjrekar’s sentiments had been echoed by former India cricketer Deep Dasgupta, who defined that Jadeja did not learn Lyon all through his innings.
“I felt he was taking part in for flip from the beginning however Nathan Lyon learn the situations very nicely, that there wasn’t that a lot flip there. Nathan Lyon will get two issues right here – one is bounce and the second is drift. It’s best to see from the place he launched the ball and the place it completed. He launched it from broad of the crease, the pitching was simply outdoors the off-stump, and it pitched and got here in. From Nathan Lyon’s first ball, when Jadeja was defending, it was hitting the within fringe of the bat. It tells you that Jadeja’s considering was reverse to what Nathan Lyon was doing, and that’s the reason Nathan Lyon trapped him,” Dasgupta defined.
For the report, Lyon has dismissed seven instances out of 16 innings in Take a look at cricket.
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