Legendary India cricketer Sunil Gavaskar was left ‘very, very disappointed’ by Yashasvi Jaiswal’s poor batting performance in the Brisbane Test. After Australia posted a mammoth total of 445 in their first innings, Indian openers Jaiswal and KL Rahul were expected to give India a fantastic start.
However, the complete opposite happened as Jaiswal lost his wicket on the second ball of the innings to pacer Mitchell Starc. The India batter clipped the delivery straight to Mitchell Marsh at square leg as his innings came to an end after scoring just 4 runs.
“It’s not the best of shots. You are facing 445 runs, then I think it’s important for you to get your eye in. It wasn’t even a half volley, and you have tried to flick that ball away, and it’s a simple catch. Very good field placement and very good captaincy by Pat Cummins for sure,” Gavaskar said on ABC Sport.
“But that’s not the best of shots that you expect from an opening bat, particularly when your opposition has got 445. Your job now for that one hour was to try and stay at the crease. Jaiswal, very very disappointing,” Gavaskar added.
“It wasn’t even a half volley. I can understand if it was a half volley; sometimes you are not able to keep it along the ground. It was a length ball, you were never going to be able to keep that ball down,” Gavaskar further added.
Before India’s innings commenced, Jaiswal smashed a drive towards Australia players’ team huddle, eventually hitting a Cricket Australia videographer and the batter was quick to apologize for it.
“Five minutes before Jaiswal got out, this is the shot he practiced that whip through mid-wicket, a wonderful shot and good balance. And then you go into the match and it’s the same shot but he goes aerial, just flicks it. It was the pressure of the game, in practice it’s perfect,” former England captain Michael Vaughan said on Fox Sports.
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