Former England captain Nasir Hussain analyzed India’s disadvantage in the Leeds Test match, who agreed to Ravi Shastri’s on-air comments about the captaincy of Shubman Gill and the need of India’s seam-bag all-rounder. Hussain highlighted how Gill’s leadership style was different from his predecessors Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma, while the team also indicated concerns about holding the slip and lower-order batting during the match, resulting in England’s five-wicket win.The Leeds Test marked Gill’s start as captain after Rohit’s retirement, England successfully scored 371 runs, chasing his second largest at home against India.Go beyond the border with our YouTube channel. Subscribe now!Hussain noticed that Gill’s captaincy appeared in his early stages, which lacked the commanding appearance of his predecessors.
“I thought I saw someone just looking for my way, honestly. You have been very careful in the first Test match, the people they have taken from Kohli and then from Rohit Sharma. I felt that he did not have that on-field aura, as I mentioned there. You see those two previous names, and you immediately see who was in charge of India. I looked down from the press box, the status of the comment, there were many captains; This was a bit captaincy by the committee, which could be as a leader in your early days because you still try senior players like Rishabh Pant and KL Rahul and want to help you as much as possible. I felt that he had chased the ball a lot. I felt that he was active as reactive. ,Hussain surprised that neither Gill nor other senior players addressed Ravindra Jadeja’s bowling strategy in 5 days, where the spinner effectively failed to use some patch on the pitch.“A word with Jadeja, perhaps as a young captain, to go to such an experienced spinner, and go, you know that Rough is out of there. Ravi Shastri and Mark Butcher are going there, going there, going, showing us where the ball is pitching, and it was pitching with someone. Ravi was saying, slightly slow, a little wide, the bowl in rough. I was surprised that one of the senior players or captain Jadeja did not go and said, can we be a little wide. But Ravi’s right, he lost the game for two things that he could not control (catch fell and batting collapse). ,Hussain also addressed India’s ongoing discovery for Seam-Bauling all-rounder, which compares the situation to previous players of the team.
“The slip cordon and catching were poor, something that India has done well in the last two or three years and collapsed. And it concerns me because there is a low order with spin bowling all-rounders in India and has been a lower order and has been for the last decade, which are fantastic. Which are Ashwin, Jadeja, Jadeja, Jadeja, Exer Patel. Are doing those who can bat. And if they are going, what, six for 41 and six for 30 or whatever, then it can be a quick chain. They need to run the order. ,Team experiments with Nitish Reddy in Australia and Shardul Thakur in Leeds have not yet provided the desired balance in the lower order, as due to the fall in both innings despite the five centuries during the match.
