The improvement from Team India came in the first half hour after being asked to bat. Even then it took considerable discipline from ‘white ball’ batsmen to eschew the shots and buckle down to play longer innings. To recast an old ethnic joke about why Indians can’t play the second innings first, we ask now India can’t play the last Test first. Pant is from the new school. 

China wholesale slow rebound toy His hit for six was a statement of intent from a young man whose presence came as a whiff of fresh air.The manner in which Pandya got it to shake in the air made it seem as if the ball had a will of its own during its trajectory and that makes it difficult for any batsman to face. The balance may swung enough in the third Test to open up all possibilities.Turning all those theories about discipline was the advent of Rishabh Pant. seamer should do it in this manner. Representing the new brand of batting more in line with the demands of Test cricket were Kohli and his deputy Ajinkya Rahane, who knows a thing or two about toiling in the straight and narrow Test match lanes of batting. Hope he goes places. Much would depend on the micro conditions in each innings as a cloud cover brings on the dancing dervish in the Dukes ball. This is not the first occasion on which the England batting lineup has come unstuck in home conditions of swing and seam and all the more credit that

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