Kohli slams fielding after drawn Test against England

“To be honest, I did not know that he [Prasad] was here”, Rahul said. “I thought we played spin really well here”, Ali said.

Ravichandran Ashwin has conceded 230 runs while capturing three wickets – the most conceded by him in a home Test, eclipsing the 225 vs New Zealand at Kanpur in September 2016. It doesn’t make sense for me to come back into the team and then get injured again. “But, I believe there was improvement in my bowling in the second innings and I bowled better”, Mishra told BCCI.tv.

Rahul is now playing in the Ranji Trophy for Karnataka and scored 76 off 85 balls and 106 off 132 balls against Rajasthan in an ongoing match. Virat Kohli who was dismissed as hit wicket in the 1st innings played steady and calm in the 2nd innings. Seamers, Spinners all have chipped in with wickets and caused havoc in the Indian batting at a certain part in the second innings last time around. “We lost the toss in Mumbai in 2012 on a turning wicket and we outplayed India”. To keep them to 480, we did well. When we are chasing to win the match at least you can play your shots but it is not same when you are playing to save the match. It is important as a bowler to bowl in the right areas and make the batsmen commit errors. “I think it is still two days”. The Indian head coach also insisted that the team selection would be made only after seeing the pitch.

The 19-year-old Hameed smashed 82 off 177 balls to record the highest Test score by a teenager for England, beating Jack Crawford’s 74 in Cape Town in 1906.

“There was only two chances of a result, us to win or them to draw and that can do amusing things on a fifth day wicket and I was pleased with how we bowled, but in the end they did enough”.

Earlier, England declared their second innings at 260/3 shortly after lunch – an overall lead of 309 runs – with captain Alastair Cook slamming a fine knock of 130 runs – his 30th Test century and fifth in India.

“The NCA physio is here to make sure that I’m moving well”. Our batsmen were in form and had runs under their belt.

England will take confidence from the way they started (in the series). It was great batting from Kohli.

England have been quite positive from the word go in Rajkot. I just focussed on my game, getting fit and getting rid of any niggles.

I don’t see why they haven’t got one anyway. He was asked to play his natural game but at the same time, not try anything flashy.