India's batting coach laments second innings display

After a disappointing Day four with bat and ball against the hosts Indian batting coach Vikram Rathour has said that India could have done better as a batting unit and put England out of the game but failed to do soA 150run stand between Jonny Bairstow and Joe Root helped turn things in favour of England at the end of the final session of Day Four of the ongoing fifth and final Test against India at Edgbaston in Birmingham on MondayAt the end of the days play Englands score read 2593 with Root 76 and Bairstow 72 standing tall Indians were left clueless by the determination and stroke play of both inform batters England need 119run more runs to win chasing a target of 378 by India who were bundled out for 245 in their second inningsWe had a pretty ordinary day with the bat We were ahead in the game We were in a position where we could have batted them England out of the game but we could not A lot of players got starts but could not convert them into big scores It was expected that one of them would play a big knock or have a big partnership but we could not We should have had shown better strategy as a batting unit Rathour said at a press conferenceHe also said that weather could not be an excuse for subpar bowling performance in the final innings so far in which RootBairstow put the hosts in a dominant positionWe needed to bowl better bowl in better areas he addedRathour however expressed optimism that pacers Jasprit Bumrah and Mohammed Shami could still bring back India into contention on the final day of the ongoing fifth and final Test against EnglandIt is still a huge target There are still 119 runs to be scored We can still do well two early wickets next morning and the game will open up again he addedThe batting coach lauded Pujara for his knock of 66 runsAlso Read India women create history chase down highest ODI score for the loss of no wicketHe was told in the last moments of the Test that he is going to open and he did that He showed his attitude a lot of character he addedEngland resumed things off after Tea at 1071 with opener Alex Lees 56 and Ollie Pope 0 standing unbeaten at the creaseIndia got an early wicket in the first over after Tea as Jasprit Bumrah sent back Pope to pavilion for a threeball duck after wicketkeeper Rishabh Pant successfully caught the ball which hit the edge of his batIn the next over Lees was run out by the pair of Mohammed Shami and Ravindra Jadeja England lost their third wicket at a score of 109 runsAfter this the inform duo of Joe Root and Jonny Bairstow resumed the chase for their side The duo formed a fiftyrun partnership RootBairstow continued to inflict punishment on Indian bowlers suddenly shifting things more in Englands favourA hundredrun stand was up between Bairstow and Root in 141 balls Indian bowlers could find no answer to the batting of these two as they kept piling up runs Both brought up their halfcenturies and also completed their 150run stand in 196 ballsRootBairstow made sure that their team walked out of the final session without any further damage needing 119 runs to win and level the seriesEarlier before Tea England openers Alex Lees and Zak Crawley struck a century partnership after captain Ben Stokes led from the front taking four wickets to bowl out India for 245 in the second innings as the visitors set a 378run target for the hostsResuming the postlunch session at 2297 India lost Mohammed Shami in the fourth ball of the Tea session as English captain Ben Stokes dismissed him for 13 From there on there was no looking back for the skipper as he also went on to dismiss firstinnings centurion Ravindra Jadeja who chopped the ball onto his stumps for 23 as the hosts lost their ninth wicket for 236In his next over Stokes dismissed Indian captain Jasprit Bumrah for seven to bowl out India for 245 The hosts set visitors a 378run targetChasing a big total England needed a solid start and their openers Alex Lees and Zak Crawley did exactly that scoring runs at a brisk pace The duo struck a 50run partnership with southpaw Lees being the aggressor of the two Southpaw Lees went on to score his halfcentury in just 44 balls The opening pair of LeesCrawley carried on and they reduced the target to less than 300This story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever