Ravi Shastri, a former India bowler, said that India used Mohammed Siraj and Mohammed Shami too much in the first half of the World Test Championship (WTC) final. On Day 1,. At the end of the first day of the WTC final at the Oval, Australia had scored 327/3, which was a big deal.
Mohammed Siraj and Shami both took a wicket and bowled six overs with the new ball. Umesh Yadav and Shardul Thakur, on the other hand, couldn’t find a flow and let up on the pressure that had been built up. When David Warner hit Umesh for four fours in his second over, the game changed. Shastri said that India didn’t do a good job with Siraj and Shami during the day’s play.
“Once you chose the team, it doesn’t matter if Ashwin played or not, or if you fielded. But after that, you could have been much smarter in terms of strategy. Both Siraj and Shami had to bowl their second spells in the first practice. At first, they gave Shami and Siraj times that were too long. You know that it has been three or four months since they played first-class cricket, so it will be hard for them to bowl all day. “They should have kept them and used them when the time was right,” Shastri told Star Sports.
Siraj and Shami should have completed 70% of the batting in the first session. Ravi Shastri also said that the two strike bowlers should have done most of the overs in the first session.
“So, I think the first spell should have been short, and all four fast bowlers should have been used in the first two hours. “70% of the bowling should have been done by Siraj and Shami in the first session,” he said.
The 251-run partnership between Head (146*) and Smith (95*) at the fourth wicket is still going strong, and the Indian bowlers will need to break it as soon as possible on Day 2 if they want to win the game back.
India
