India vs England: “Didn’t face bowling of this standard”: Former England spinner on Jonny Bairstow | cricket news

Bairstow scored centuries in two Tests against New Zealand© AFP

England batsman Jonny Bairstow Trent was in good form against New Zealand, scoring centuries back to back at Bridge and Headingley. He was playing an aggressive brand of cricket and everyone expected the same to happen against India in the ongoing rescheduled fifth Test at Edgbaston. However, that hasn’t happened so far, as Bairstow has been impressed with the quality of the Indian attack. The right-handed batsman has played 47 balls so far in which he has scored just 12 runs.

Former England spinner Graeme Swann He said Bairstow is seeing the shadow of the player who was smashing it last week as he was not facing that level of bowling.

Commenting on the second day of the ongoing Test for Sony Sports Network, Swann said, “Jonny Bairstow looks like a shadow of the guy who smashed it against New Zealand last week. He hasn’t faced that level of bowling.” was.”

left handed batsman Ravindra Jadeja Edgbaston was at his best in the first innings of the Test as he smashed a 104-run stand to help India post 416 runs on the board. India were struggling at 98/5 and were with Jadeja then Rishabh Pant Added 222 runs for the sixth wicket. Pant scored 146 runs.

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At stumps on the second day, England were 84/5 and they are still trailing by 332 runs with Jonny Bairstow (12*) and Ben Stokes (0*) at the crease.

Jasprit Bumrah While taking three wickets mohammed siraji And Mohammed Shami took one each.

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