England batsman Jos Buttler wants more control from bowlers

We did that in the second session (yesterday) and that is the reason we got wickets in the third session.

The 24-year-old opener is tipped to make his global bow for his adopted country in England’s do-or-die fourth Test against India, which starts at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai on Thursday.

They drew lot of flak for defensive batting while chasing an improbable 405 to win the second test and coach Trevor Bayliss said it was time for the side to show more positive intent.

“Very pleasing. I felt the team needs them (the runs) and that’s really satisfying”, Buttler said, adding that his stint in the Indian Premier League with the Mumbai Indians had helped.

“I was fully aware and probably expecting not to play a game in Bangladesh or here in India“. In that moment, you don’t really want to jump around, go ballistic – but the emotion, elation, pride, the satisfaction that went over me was really incredible.

Former Proteas all-rounder Jacques Kallis was one of many left frustrated, saying: “Yet another one slips through our system”.

“At the time I sat down with my dad and I felt it would be my best opportunity to live my dream in the United Kingdom – and I’m very glad as I sit here now to have made that hard decision”. You get the impression that England surprised themselves by their excellence in Rajkot, after fearing the worst following their travails on turning pitches in Bangladesh. “We’d chatted at the end of that Mohali game, and I think it’s a very fair thing”.

“But then the ground went a little bit boring, so I thought I’d kind of mucked up (my numbers) a little and got it wrong”.

Jennings’ Durham future remains in some doubt, after the financially-stricken county’s demotion and stringent points penalty as conditions of their bail-out from the England and Wales Cricket Board. England had them in trouble at 132 for six, but could not clinch victory after they ran out of time and steam.

“Getting to 400 does that for us”.

Tomorrow’s match gives India a chance to exact revenge for the two earlier defeats and also make the Chennai Test inconsequential. “If we get a bit more consistent, get a string of dot balls and build more pressure, there definitely are wicket-taking balls in that surface”, he concluded.

Parthiv Patel, who was recalled to the team after an eightyear gap, took on the unenviable job of opening the batting against the topclass England newball attack led by the redoubtable James Anderson with lan in Mohali, making 42 and 67 respectively. “(We should) make sure when we go there we also have eight days’ gap after the three Tests and 25-day gap between ODIs and Tests”, said Kohli, while admitting his team too benefitted from the rest.