2024-02-18 05:13:23
Rajkot: Seeing the stormy batting of the Indian team’s opener batsman Yashasvi Jaiswal, the players of England have also become his fans. After the end of the third day of the Rajkot Test match, England’s Ben Duckett praised Yashasvi and described him as a ‘rising star’. Along with this, Duckett said that his team should be given credit for inspiring the players of the opposition camp to bat aggressively in Test cricket. Jaiswal, batting in England’s famous ‘baseball’ style in Test cricket, scored a century in India’s second innings on Saturday, the third day of the third Test match.
He hit nine fours and five sixes in his innings of 104 runs from 133 balls before being retired hurt due to back spasms. Jaiswal was at one time scoring 35 runs in 73 balls but in the last session of the day he changed his attitude and completed his century with an aggressive shot. Duckett said in the press conference after the day’s play, ‘When you see the players of the opposition team playing like this, it seems that we should take some credit. He is playing in a different way than his natural style.
He said, ‘We have seen this many times in the current cricket season. It is very exciting to see that other players and other teams are also playing that aggressive style of cricket. He praised Jaiswal but cheekily said, ‘He looks like a rising superstar, unfortunately he is in a very good form at the moment. His bad times are about to come.
Duckett, who scored 153 runs with the help of 23 fours and two sixes in 151 balls in England’s first innings, said that the Indian team had come on the field on Saturday with a better plan. He said, ‘It was a day when I think you have to give credit to India. In the morning session, he was not giving chances to score runs easily.