Robin Uthappa says Yashasvi Jaiswal was not clear in his approach in 2nd innings of Lord’s Test against England

Former Indian batter Robin Uthappa noted that Yashasvi Jaiswal didn’t look comfortable during his seven-ball duck in the second innings of the Lord’s Test against England. After getting dismissed for 13 runs in the first innings, Jaiswal played a poor shot in the second innings.

The left-hander was looking to play a pull shot against Jofra Archer on a wide delivery but could only balloon the ball to wicket-keeper Jamie Smith. The southpaw has scored 233 runs in three Test matches at an average of 38.83 in the ongoing series against England.

“Yashasvi was genuinely not comfortable from the word go. You could see through the over that he was confused, so to speak, not clear. Maybe not confused but just not clear as to how he wants to approach it. Because it was only 190 runs, I think he was half and half. It almost seemed like an afterthought, that shot,” Uthappa said on his YouTube channel.

On the other hand, Karun Nair was dismissed after scoring 14 runs in the second innings when he decided to leave an incoming delivery against Brydon Carse and was plumbed in front of the wickets.

“He (Nair) left it at the point of delivery. I don’t think he watched it coming in an made that decision as the ball came to him. Until that point, that dude was batting solid, man. He is batting so well,” he added.

Meanwhile, Ravindra Jadeja scored a valiant knock of 61 runs off 181 balls but Uthappa said the left-hander didn’t have the cushion of batting aggressively with the tailenders.

“He (Jadeja) did not have the cushion to do that (increase tempo in the run chase). He is the last recognised batter, batting with bowlers, and how can you take a chance? If he was batting with batters you would have seen him taking the attack on. Say, for example, he was batting with KL Rahul, and they had stitched up a partnership. After a point he would have said, ‘KL just hold fort, one or two bowlers I’m going to target’,” Uthappa opined.

“We saw, even with eight wickets down, even with nine wickets down, when India ere about 50-60 runs away, England were feeling the heat, man. You could see it in their demeanor, in their body language, desperateness. They were like,’ Are they going to pull a rabbit out of the hat here?” the former India player concluded.

The fourth Test match between England and India will be played at Emirates Old Trafford, Manchester, from July 23 onwards.