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Hindustan Times
4 hours ago
- Sport
- Hindustan Times
Gavaskar fails to understand Jaiswal, Karun no-show; Prasidh, Kuldeep not spared either: 'Guys who haven't done well...'
The fourth India vs England Manchester Test is upon us, and never has the series been more interestingly poised than right now. With England ahead 2-1, the fourth Test is make or break for India. India need a win to stay alive in the tournament, whereas a defeat will hand the first-ever Anderson-Tendulkar Trophy to England and their captain Ben Stokes. Yes, a draw also keeps India in the series, but let's be honest, a draw is pretty much out of the equation here, given the brand of cricket both teams have played. Hence, if India were to win, the players need to come out firing on all cylinders and with much bravado. Is Sunil Gavaskar's concern for Yashasvi Jaiswal justified?(AFP Images) The second and third Tests saw KL Rahul, Shubman Gill and Rishabh Pant continue their belligerent forms, but while India benefitted from three of their dynamic batters, they missed the ammunition from the bat of Yashasvi Jaiswal. Even Karun Nair, who has been given repeated chances, remains the only Indian batter to not score even a single half-century. With an eight-day gap between the Lord's and Manchester Tests, Sunil Gavaskar expected the likes of Jaiswal, Karun and others to participate in a practice match – of any kind – but since that didn't happen, the former India captain wasn't able to understand the thought process behind it. Also Read: 'If Jadeja has even 40 percent of Stokes' belief...'; Shastri goes hard at India star, says 'it took him ages to...' "While it is fair for the seniors to take it easy in these gaps and try and get away from cricket and get their bodies and minds refreshed for the remaining battles, the youngsters in the team without much experience of playing in foreign conditions could do with game time to press their case for inclusion in the playing XI. Even those out of form or rhythm would appreciate the chance to get their mojo back," Gavaskar wrote in his column for Mid-Day. "Not having any match practice will only make the guys, who have not done well to worry a bit more, which doesn't stand them in good stead. This eight-day gap before the Manchester Test would have been most useful for the likes of Yashasvi Jaiswal, Karun Nair, Sai Sudharsan, Abhimanyu Easwaran to get some useful batting practice even if it was a match played against an ordinary team." Same goes for the bowlers Gavaskar reserved the same sentiments for some of the Indian fast bowlers. Prasidh Krishna had a woeful outing at Edgbaston, while Arshdeep Singh has yet to get a game. The left-arm seamer was eventually ruled out of the Old Trafford Test due to a finger injury, but Gavaskar felt Kuldeep Yadav, who could be in with a chance to play the Test match starting tomorrow, should have turned up for a practice match or some sort of simulation game. "For bowlers like Arshdeep Singh, Kuldeep Yadav, Prasidh Krishna too, it would have helped to get their run-ups, lines and lengths going. Imagine if they suddenly have to bowl in a Test match when they haven't played any cricket for more than a month. To expect them to get going straightaway would be totally unfair on these young and keen cricketers," added Gavaskar.
Indian Express
12 hours ago
- Sport
- Indian Express
India vs England 4th Test Match: Date, Time, Venue, Live Cricket Streaming, Predicted Playing XI, Other Details
IND vs ENG 4th Test Match Date, Time, Venue, Weather & Pitch Report, Live Cricket Streaming, Playing 11 Prediction: After a gut-wrenching 22-run loss in the edge-of-the-seat thriller third Test at Lord's in London, the Shubman Gill-led India, after a much-needed break, will look to regroup and pounce on England to level the five-match Anderson-Tendulkar series. England won the opening Test at Headingley by five wickets before India made a swift comeback to win the second Test at Edgbaston, levelling the series one all. England are, for the second time, ahead in the series 2-1. Things won't be easy for Team India as they stand between an overhaul by forced changes due to injuries. Nitish Kumar Reddy has been ruled out of the remainder while Arshdeep Singh will miss the Manchester Test, both due to injury. Pacer Akash Deep is also set to miss the fourth Test due to issues in his groin. The Ben Stokes side has announced their XI, making just a solitary change in Liam Lawson coming into the team in place of Shoaib Bashir, who has also been ruled out of the remainder due to finger injury sustained in the 3rd Test. Here's all you need to know about the ENG vs IND 4th Test at Old Trafford in Manchester: When and where will ENG vs IND 4th Test match take place? The fourth Test match between England and India will be played at Old Trafford in Manchester from July 23 to 27 and the match will start at 3:30 PM IST. When will toss take place in ENG vs IND 4th Test match? The toss for the ENG vs IND 4th Test match has been scheduled for 3:00 PM IST. Where to watch ENG vs IND 4th Test Live Streaming in India? The England vs India 4th Test will be streamed live on the JioHotstar app and website. Where to watch ENG vs IND 4th Test Live Telecast on TV in India? The viewers can watch the England vs India 4th Test live telecast on the Sony Sports Network. According to the Met Office, Manchester weather will be much colder than London's, with rain predicted during the five-day encounter from July 23 to 27. The temperatures are expected to range between 14 degrees Celsius and the mercury will rise to 23 degrees Celsius. Historically, Manchester has been known for its scorching pace and extra bounce. Over time, however, Old Trafford has lost its edge, becoming a slower-paced venue in recent years. Yet, with rain forecast for the Test, conditions could favour the pacers once again. India: Yashasvi Jaiswal, KL Rahul, Sai Sudharsan, Shubman Gill (c), Rishabh Pant (vc & wk), Ravindra Jadeja, Washington Sundar, Kuldeep Yadav/Shardul Thakur, Mohammed Siraj, Jasprit Bumrah, Anshul Kamboj. England: Zak Crawley, Ben Duckett, Ollie Pope, Joe Root, Harry Brook, Ben Stokes (c), Jamie Smith (wk), Liam Dawson, Chris Woakes, Brydon Carse, Jofra Archer India Squad: Shubman Gill (C), Rishabh Pant (VC & WK), Yashasvi Jaiswal, KL Rahul, Sai Sudharsan, Abhimanyu Easwaran, Karun Nair, Ravindra Jadeja, Dhruv Jurel (WK), Washington Sundar, Shardul Thakur, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohd. Siraj, Prasidh Krishna, Akash Deep, Kuldeep Yadav, Anshul Kamboj. England Squad: Ben Stokes (c), Jofra Archer, Gus Atkinson, Jacob Bethell, Harry Brook, Brydon Carse, Zak Crawley, Liam Dawson, Ben Duckett, Ollie Pope, Joe Root, Jamie Smith (wk), Josh Tongue, Chris Woakes.
Daily Mail
a day ago
- Sport
- Daily Mail
How Jofra Archer became the scourge of left-handers by the person who knows him best - and the Aussies have loads of them!
It is not only express pace Jofra Archer has injected into England's Test series against India. He is also the scourge of left-handers. All of Archer's five victims on his comeback at Lord's last week were lefties and after twice dismissing opener Yashasvi Jaiswal cheaply, he has changed the dynamic at the start of India's innings. How Jaiswal — who had got India racing out of the blocks with big first-innings scores at Headingley and Edgbaston — responds will be one of the intriguing subplots when the series resumes in Manchester on Wednesday. Archer, 30, took his Test haul to 47 wickets in 14 appearances in last week's 22-run win, but his true value is revealed in the breakdown of those statistics. 28 of the 47 scalps are right-handers and have come at an average of 35.85, but his menace increases considerably against left-handers, with the other 19 costing just 21.42. The respective strike rates of a wicket every 72 balls compared to one every 43 are also telling. So, what are the characteristics that will encourage England captain Ben Stokes to turn to Archer to combat Jaiswal with the new ball and Rishabh Pant, Ravindra Jadeja and Washington Sundar when they come to the crease later in the innings? 'Firstly, it's the shape he gets on the ball,' explains long-term training partner and ex-England colleague Chris Jordan. 'His stock delivery predominantly tends to go into the right-hander and away from the left-hander. 'The biggest thing, though, whether he goes over the wicket or round the wicket, is that he gets tight to the stumps, pitching the ball within the tramlines more often than not as a result. 'If you're pitching the ball on the stumps, you are forcing people to play, and with left-handers the angle opens up their left shoulders, squaring them up, and when you are able to move the ball like Jofra, it creates a lot of uncertainty. 'He has the natural shape away but he can nip the ball off the seam both ways and that's what makes him dangerous.' Stuart Broad terrorised Australia's David Warner late in their careers with a round-the-wicket policy, but whereas Broad went wider on the crease, Archer's point of difference is operating in straighter lines. And intriguingly, with the Ashes on the horizon, five of the Aussie XI in their most recent Test were left-handed. Jordan believes Archer's all-round craft, such as being able to nip the ball both ways with a minimal change of action, is overlooked because of the fixation on his pace. 'All the top bowlers around the world, whether you're talking about Pat Cummins, Kagiso Rabada or Jasprit Bumrah, operate somewhere between 84-87mph as a rule and then slip themselves to 90 when they feel the time is right,' Jordan tells Mail Sport. 'Jofra was up at an average of 88-89 at Lord's, but although so many people get caught up with his pace, his main attributes are his ability and skill levels.' England team-mate Harry Brook agrees that Archer's tendency to go 'tight on the crease' draws opponents into playing shots they wouldn't otherwise. 'Jaiswal tried to pull one with the ball going away, a fairly tough shot,' said the batsman. 'I have done that a few times. He is bowling 94 or 95mph and you have a split second to react, so if you are not quite right then you are walking back to the shed.' Archer's speed naturally dipped in the second spell of his first Test for four-and-a-half years, but being instructed by the umpires to remove the sleeve from his bowling arm — due to it bearing the name of a non-affiliated sponsor — roused him during the later overs of the first innings. 'He always bowls a little bit quicker when he is angry,' Brook said. 'We have probably got a bit of a job this week to try to get him angry and try to blow them away.' However, the faster bowlers will have their work cut out at Old Trafford, a ground that has lost its traditional pace and bounce over recent years. Lancashire's four County Championship fixtures in Manchester have all ended in draws. In a bid to generate some life, groundsman Matt Merchant will leave untouched the generous covering of grass that greeted the England players when they arrived for practice on Monday. His team were also drenching the adjacent pitches in the hope that some of the moisture finds its way beneath the surface.
NDTV
5 days ago
- Sport
- NDTV
Yashasvi Jaiswal Looked 'Confused': India Opener Asked 'Not Comfortable' Questions Ahead Of 4th Test team Selection
Yashasvi Jaiswal has the onus and the time to be India next big opener. In 22 Tests, Jaiswal has scored 2031 runs at an average of 50.77. He has already struck five centuries with his highest score being 214*. In the ongoing England vs India Test series, Jaiswal has already scored a century and a half-century. However, in the third Test, he could return with low scores of 13 and 0. Robin Uthappa, member of the India's 2007 T20 World Cup winner, opined that Jaiswal looked confused. "Yashasvi was genuinely just not comfortable from the word go. You know the first ball that he played, you know, it was like that it was a cut short ball and he would have been all over it, under normal circumstances and he just went there and then he like he kind of got stuck for a second and then he was like should I play? Should I not play and then he left it. Right. He's very decisive with his shot selection and that for me was like that doesn't doesn't look like a decent start. You could see through the over that he was confused, so to speak, not clear. Maybe not confused but just not clear as to how he wants to approach it. Because it was only 190 runs, I think he was half and half. It almost seemed like an afterthought, that shot," Uthappa said on his YouTube channel. "He (Nair) left it at the point of delivery. I don't think he watched it coming in an made that decision as the ball came to him. Until that point, that dude was batting solid, man. He is batting so well." Former Sri Lanka opener Kumar Sangakkara was also not impressed with Yashasvi Jaiswal's rusty seven-ball duck during India's pursuit of a 193-run target against England during the third Test at the 'Home of Cricket', Lord's. Jaiswal appeared jaded and struggled to find his rhythm, and eventually lost his wicket to tearaway Jofra Archer. With three slips, short leg and a gully, Archer delivered a sizzling 141kph delivery, banged in short outside off and forced a thick top-edge. The ball ballooned straight into the sky and landed safely into the gloves of wicketkeeper Jamie Smith as Jaiswal returned without troubling the scorers. Even in the first innings, Jaiswal perished against Archer and lost his wicket for 13(8). Sangakkara dissected the youngster's approach and said on Sky Sports, "Watching Jaiswal in the first over that he faced, he didn't look comfortable, he didn't look watchable. He has spent a long time at short leg for India, and he has come out looking a bit jaded."
Time of India
5 days ago
- Sport
- Time of India
'Really bad': Stuart Broad slams Yashasvi Jaiswal's poor shot selection at Lord's; lefty scored 13 runs
London: India's Yashasvi Jaiswal returns to pavilion after his dismissal by England�s Jofra Archer on the second day of the third test cricket match between India and England, at the Lord's Cricket Ground, in London. (PTI Photo/R Senthilkumar) (PTI07_11_2025_000340A) Former England fast bowler Stuart Broad has slammed India opener Yashasvi Jaiswal for his poor shot selection at Lord's in the second innings. 'So Jaiswal getting out, really bad shot, I'm surprised He just didn't look to cut it over the off-side, suddenly England are like okay, we are in. He is the player who moves the scoreboard forward,' Stuart Broad said on 'For The Love Of Cricket' podcast. Go Beyond The Boundary with our YouTube channel. SUBSCRIBE NOW! "In a low chase, when you are defending, if you come to bowl and you've got a Sehwag, Warner, the opening batters that can take the game away from you and they up 60 for none or one off ten, the game is sort of done,' he added. Broad then explained why Jaiswal's wicket opened the gate for England. TOI Sports reporter attacked in London: After Lord's Test, reporter faces 'scariest moment of his life' 'As soon as Karun Nair came in, he is someone who plays each ball on merit, then England could control it and set attacking fields, create pressure. So I thought that was a really big moment. England making that breakthrough early, Jaiswal gone,' Broad said. India lost the Lord's Test by 22 runs. England are leading the five-match Test series by 2-1. The fourth match of the five-Test series will be played at the Old Trafford in Manchester, starting from July 23. Catch Rani Rampal's inspiring story on Game On, Episode 4. Watch Here!
