‘Yashasvi Jaiswal hasn’t learnt from you’, Nasser Hussain slams Ben Duckett for ‘credit’ comments
While the young southpaw’s counterattacking knocks have left England with no answers, visiting opener Ben Duckett claimed that England deserved “some credit” for the aggression adopted by Jaiswal.
After day three of the third Test where Jaiswal slammed his third century, Duckett said: “When you see players from the opposition playing like that, it almost feels like we should take some credit that they’re playing differently than how other people play Test cricket.”
The strange comment received a stern lashing from former England captain Nasser Hussain on Monday. Speaking on Sky Sports podcast, Hussain highlights Jaiswal’s upbringing as the cornerstone of his success. “He (Jaiswal) has not learnt from you. He’s learnt from his upbringing, all the hard yards he had to put in growing up. If anything, lads, look at him and learn from him. I hope there’s a little bit of self-introspection going on. Otherwise it becomes a cult, and at times Bazball and this regime has been described as such, where you cannot criticise within or externally.”
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Hussain is the second key English figure to come out against Duckett’s comments after his former teammate Michael Vaughan.
“Listen to them, and you would think nothing is ever wrong. Jimmy Anderson said they would chase 600 in Vizag. Ben Duckett said “the more the better” in terms of their target this week, but they fell 434 short. Duckett also reckons they deserve credit for the way Yashasvi Jaiswal is batting, as if no player in history has ever played an attacking shot,” wrote in his column for The Telegraph.
Jaiswal currently leads the batting charts with 545 runs in six innings, including a whopping 22 maximums – a record for most sixes by a player in bilateral Tests.
High praise for Sarfaraz Khan
Hussain also lauded India batter Sarfaraz Khan who notched up two fifties on his Test debut in Rajkot. “His tempo of batting was so good. Had Root taken the catch of Rohit Sharma, India would have been 47 for 4. Then you can debate can he play with that sort of tempo and falir and style. But coming in at 240 for 4, absolutely gives you the licence. He looks a very fine player of spin. He picks up length very well, he slog sweeps and sweeps very well.
“He has obviously done the hard yards in the first-class cricket. He has got a shed load of runs. People have been singing his praise for quite sometime. He was not going to be like a novice coming in. He has got the weight of first-class runs but you never know, when someone arrives on the biggest stage, and when you have to wait so long, it’s the character. Can he do it on that big stage? Small sample size but it definitely looks like he can. It’s not just the runs in both innings, it’s the way he got those runs, they were eye-catching,” Hussain remarked.
India and England will lock horns in the fourth Test in Ranchi from Friday.
