Legendary England cricket workforce batter Kevin Pietersen had a grim warning for Ben Stokes and Co following the tip of play on Day 1 of the primary Test match in opposition to India on Thursday. Yashasvi Jaiswal appeared in positive type as he slammed a half-century and India had been 119/1 after bowling out England for simply 246. Jaiswal appeared significantly snug in opposition to the England spin trio of Tom Hartley, Jack Leach and Rehan Ahmed as he scored a majority of his runs in opposition to them. Pietersen mentioned that the spinners are his ‘large concern’ and he doesn’t appear them ‘outbowling’ their Indian counterparts.
“My big concern is England’s spinners. I said it before the series. When we won here in 2012, we had Swann and Panesar, who outbowled Ashwin, Harbhajan and Pragyan Ojha. Unfortunately, from what I have seen here today, I can’t see these three spinners outbowling Indian spinners. I just didn’t see the ball spin enough. A couple of balls, they got to spin,” Kevin Pietersen mentioned whereas talking on Sports18.
“But England spinners just never got the border spin. Yes, they weren’t allowed to spin it because Yashasvi Jaiswal was hitting it. But also you only need one ball to spin or two balls to spin. They just couldn’t get into spin. You contrast that with India. First of all, we thought, Oh, here we go. Next ball. Then we get the ball to bounce. Then we get the ball to spin. Then another one bounces. We just didn’t see that with the England spinners,” Pietersen added.
Jaiswal was batting on a 70-ball 76 whereas Shubman Gill was unbeaten on 14 on the finish of the day’s play, as India trailed by 127 runs after shedding skipper Rohit Sharma (24).
England captain Ben Stokes received the toss and opted to bat first.
The guests had been off to a decant begin with openers Zak Crawley (20) and Ben Duckett (35) including 55 runs at a reasonably good tempo earlier than Ravichandran Ashwin gave India their first breakthrough by having Duckett trapped in entrance of the wicket.
Stokes top-scored with 70 off 88 balls and was the final English wicket to fall, bowled by Jasprit Bumrah (28).
Jonny Bairstow contributed 37 off 58 balls earlier than he was achieved in by a phenomenal supply from Axar Patel (2/33).
Left-arm spinner Ravindra Jadeja and Ashwin bagged three wickets apiece whereas there have been two every for Axar and Bumrah.
(With PTI inputs)
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