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The series is tantalizingly positioned at 1-1 after two intriguing Tests, as the teams prepare to face off in the third Test in Rajkot, starting February 15.
England He bounced back excellently to win the first Test in Hyderabad despite conceding a huge lead to the hosts. India then returned to Visakhapatnam to raise the bar, thanks to heroic performances led by Jaiswal’s double hundred and Jasprit Bumrah’s six-wicket blast in the second innings to sweep England away.
Jaiswal, who boasts an average of 80.25 after his four innings so far in the series, scored 209 in the first innings of the Vizag Test; and former England manager David Lloyd he thinks the visitors should bother Jaiswal by playing on his ego.
“Jaiswal is a brave player, but he doesn’t have an obvious weakness. So I would be thinking a little outside the box and instead of bowling the left-arm spinner with the new ball, I would be tempted to persevere with the temptation in the deep.” Lloyd wrote in his column for the Daily Mail.
“I’d like to see England play to Jaiswal’s ego a bit more.”
Advising England’s spinners to attract Jaiswal to play big shots, Lloy said England must be smart in positioning deep fielders when bowling Jaiswal.
“You need to keep your catchers close to the bat in subcontinental conditions, but you also need one or two fielders in strategic positions where you like to hit the ball,” Lloyd wrote.
He said captain Ben Stokes needs to review the trap he had laid to dismiss Shreyas Iyer in Vizag, when the out-of-form Indian batsman was lured into playing an important shot with deep mid-wicket and deep wicket instead, which resulted at your window.
“Dang him (Jaiswal) a carrot by putting a deep mid-wicket and a deep mid-wicket, but two-thirds instead of going back to the boundary. Remember the trap Stokes laid for Shreyas Iyer in the second Test, when “The England captain he ran to the rope to make a very good catch,” Lloyd said.