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NEW DELHI: Former India cricketer Sanjay Manjrekar<\/a> heaped praise on KL Rahul<\/a> and Shubman Gill<\/a> for their remarkable unbroken 174-run partnership on Day 4 of the fourth Test against England at Old Trafford, describing their effort as \u201cincredible\u201d and filled with \u201crestraint and mental resolve.\u201dGo Beyond The Boundary with our YouTube channel. SUBSCRIBE NOW!<\/a>India were staring down the barrel at 0\/2 in their second innings, still trailing by 311 runs after England’s mammoth 669. But Rahul (87*) and Gill (78*) dug deep, absorbing pressure across two sessions and steering India to 174\/2 at stumps, giving the visitors renewed hope of saving the Test.<\/p>\n Poll<\/p>\n Do you think India can save the Test match from their current position?<\/p>\n \u201cBoth Gill and KL are IPL stars. If they had to, they could’ve hit Liam Dawson for three sixes an over. But to curb that instinct and do the exact opposite \u2013 dig deep and bat with restraint \u2013 that’s what I admired,\u201d Manjrekar said on JioHotstar’s \u2018Match Centre Live.’He added, \u201cKL has scored in almost every innings and yet found the mental reserve to just bat time. Shubman’s strike rate dropped from 67 before tea to 29 after. That tells a story.\u201dFormer England batter Jonathan Trott<\/a> also applauded Gill’s mental discipline, saying, \u201cHe can score quickly, but more importantly, he has the mindset to bat time. After the chaos of that first over, he came out clear-headed, knowing his role was to save the match.\u201dLooking ahead to Day 5, Manjrekar cautioned that the opening 30 minutes and the second new ball (due in 17 overs) would be crucial.\u201cThat will be a big challenge. I still believe this partnership has to finish the job. Beyond this pair, I wouldn’t be too hopeful,\u201d Manjrekar said bluntly.India still trail by 137 runs with one full day remaining in what promises to be a thrilling finish in Manchester.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"KL Rahul and Shubman Gill (AFP Photo) NEW DELHI: Former India cricketer Sanjay Manjrekar heaped praise on KL…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25660,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,25037,2856,25038,25036,14674,25035,10536,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-25659","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-cricket","11":"tag-day-5-challenge","12":"tag-india-vs-england-4th-test","13":"tag-jonathan-trott","14":"tag-kl-rahul","15":"tag-old-trafford","16":"tag-sanjay-manjrekar","17":"tag-shubman-gill","18":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25659\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}