The Indian bowlers wreaked havoc on the England’s batting order on Day 3 of the IND vs ENG Rajkot Test. India’s chief architect – Mohammed Siraj. The ace pacer scalped a four-fer to crumble England’s entire batting order. Mohammed Siraj claimed that India bowled according to their plan and aggressively attack the English batting line-up.
Siraj went on to recount as to how a clever strategy worked for them. India took the approach of attacking the English bowlers. Siraj claimed that England were not expecting India to attack. And thus consecutive 6 dot balls piled huge pressure on the visitors.
“We had only four bowlers and we had a responsibility. We knew they would attack so we spoke about sticking together and knowing that they would make a mistake. We didn’t plan anything much, we were waiting for them to make a mistake. I knew the yorker would be a good wicket-taking option,” Siraj said after Stumps on Day 3.
Owing to workload management, Siraj was dropped from the 2nd Test. With proper recovery, Siraj has came back strongly in the Indian set-up. Furthermore, India are without key bowler Ravi Ashwin who has withdrawn from the squad owing to his mother’s illness..
“The important role for a bowler is to bowl six dot balls, we know they’re not used to playing out six dots in a row. Enjoyed with my family, then we had training. (On what he did during his break in the last match) I did my training and then I even watched the Test match at home, enjoyed watching Bumrah. (Thanks DK and says “see you in RCB” with a laugh),” Siraj concluded.
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