Spinner Harbhajan Singh wants coach Ravi Shastri to be made answerable for the Indian team’s deplorable performance in the ongoing Test series against England. Virat Kohli’s team lost the first Test match at Birmingham inside four days and then succumbed to the hosts by an innings and 159 runs at the Lord’s on Sunday.
Harbhajan said that like everyone else, even the head coach should be held accountable if the team loses the five-match series.
“The coach has to come on record, today or tomorrow he has to speak up. He is answerable to everyone. If India loses the series, then he might have to eat his words and admit that conditions do make a lot of difference,” Harbhajan, who has 417 Test wickets to his credit, told.
“We haven’t showed any intent to fight back. The willingness to win is missing and that is most disheartening. We are losing without posing any challenge to the opponent. It is extremely disappointing,” said Harbhajan.
Continuous chopping and changing of the playing eleven is one of the key reasons for team’s poor showing feels India’s third-highest wicket-taker in Test cricket.
“On foreign tours, a good opening partnership makes such a huge difference but in every match our opening pair is getting changed. In every game, the playing eleven is getting changed. Even the middle order isn’t set. At the Lord’s, we had a green wicket and overcast conditions but the team
