England's assistant head coach Marcus Trescothick does not want to study too much about what India did on Day 1 in the Dharamsala Test to dominate them. Trescothick said this England side is ‘unique’ and does not get bogged down by ‘bad days’.
Kuldeep Yadav’s five-wicket haul followed by Ravichandran Ashwin’s four-fer helped India bowl out England for 218 on Day 1 of the fifth and final Test of the series. Yashasvi Jaiswal and Rohit Sharma’s half-centuries brought down the deficit to just 83 runs. India have nine wickets in hand and an opportunity to take a massive lead but Trescothick did not seem too worried about that.
"We are a very unique side in how we go about things. I don't think we will study what India do too much."
"We don't get too down when we have bad days, we don't get too high when we have good days."
"You just have to stay level and recognise what you can do better. Hopefully we come back and improve," said Trescothick in a press conference.
Trescothick admits it was a ‘challenging day’
Trescothick chose to look at the positives after Day 1's play but also admitted that the visitors were not able to string partnerships to post a good total.
"We had some good things - the way we played up until lunch when the ball swung around more than we expected, Crawley getting that score."
"We just didn't get those partnerships going to get a big score and put the total on the board we needed to."
"It was a challenging day, no doubt about that," said Trescothick.
India in driver’s seat after just three sessions
While Jaiswal crossed the 700-run mark in the series to join the list and became the second-quickest Indian to 1,000 runs in Test cricket, Rohit and Shubman Gill expressed their intentions clearly. Rohit and Gill hit two sixes each before the end of the day’s play. India had 135/1 on the board with Shoaib Bashir taking the only wicket for the visitors in the third session. The young off-spinner deceived Jaiswal to get him stumped after taking a beating.
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