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Mohali: Hosts India beat England by eight wickets in the third Test match of the five-match series to take 2-0 lead, here at Mohali on Tuesday. Ravindra Jadeja, who was given the Man-of-the-match award for his stupendous show, both with the bat and the ball, said he was quite happy with his performance.<\/p>\n
“Obviously very happy with my performance,” said, adding that he did better with the bat. “Especially with the bat..I knew the ball was not turning. I took my time. I knew if I play 40-50 balls, I could play a big innings. I knew I could easily score runs later on. I was just thinking I was not taking a chance against the off spinner. I took the risk against the leg spinner. Unfortunately the ball came off slowly, and I couldn’t connect it. The next time I reach 90 I will be careful. The pitch wasn’t a turning pitch so I had to bowl tight. Myself and Virat discussed that I should bowl five maidens in a row. Fortunately I got Stokes in the first innings and Root in the second,” said Jadeja.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Parthiv Patel, who batted well in both the innings, said, “I was very nervous before the start of the Test. The kind of welcome I got from the dressing room, it never felt I was joining them after eight years. That’s the beauty of this team. Playing aggressively suits my game. The intent was very important, and I backed myself. Ashwin was brilliant. The way he varied his pace was brilliant. He deceived even me. There wasn’t much help in the wicket.”<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, R Ashwin said, “I have a bit of a lower abdomen strain. It was very bad on the second day but it has got better. We were in a bit of bother on day two but we back ourselves. The lower order backs itself to put on 125 runs every time. We put on a stellar show. We got the wickets because of the pressure. Special mention needs to go to Jaddu. The wicket wasn’t doing much. He kept bowling those boring areas. I enjoyed both Cook and Moeen wickets. I knew he would step out, so I slowed it down. Parthiv plays like this in first-class cricket too. When you drop it short, for us it is good length but for PP it is short.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Mohali: Hosts India beat England by eight wickets in the third Test match of the five-match series to take 2-0 lead, here at Mohali on Tuesday. Ravindra Jadeja, who was given the Man-of-the-match award for his stupendous show, both with the bat and the ball, said he was quite happy with his performance.<\/p>\n
“Obviously very happy with my performance,” said, adding that he did better with the bat. “Especially with the bat..I knew the ball was not turning. I took my time. I knew if I play 40-50 balls, I could play a big innings. I knew I could easily score runs later on. I was just thinking I was not taking a chance against the off spinner. I took the risk against the leg spinner. Unfortunately the ball came off slowly, and I couldn’t connect it. The next time I reach 90 I will be careful. The pitch wasn’t a turning pitch so I had to bowl tight. Myself and Virat discussed that I should bowl five maidens in a row. Fortunately I got Stokes in the first innings and Root in the second,” said Jadeja.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19669,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[4744,7278,466,1907,570,659],"class_list":["post-30235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket-cricket","tag-cricket-news","tag-india-vs-england","tag-indian-sports-news","tag-parthiv-patel","tag-r-ashwin","tag-ravindra-jadeja"],"yoast_head":"\n