After the annihilation at Lord’s, India coach Ravi Shastri has asked his batsmen to grind it out and show mental discipline to stand up to England’s swing bowling that has left the visitors 0-2 down in the Test series and looking down and out.
furthermore, he admitted picking chinaman bowler, Kuldeep Yadav, ahead of a third paceman at Lord’s was a mistake. Neither spinner Kuldeep or R Ashwin took a wicket, and England leg-spinner Adil Rashid did not bowl.
“In hindsight, it was an error. We should have gone, seeing the conditions, with an extra seamer. It might have helped. Then again, you didn’t know how much it would rain, whether a match could go into the final day where just in case a spinner is needed and the ball starts to turn, would we have needed him.
“The way things panned out, the amount it rained, the time we lost, a seamer could have been a better option.”
