Ben Duckett<\/a> was at the centre of two incidents, the second of which appeared to involve him enraging Sai Sudharsan following his late dismissal. Earlier, having been picked up on stump microphones telling Akash Deep \u201cyou can\u2019t get me out\u201d, he went on to be dismissed by the pace bowler and received an unusual send-off. Deep put his arm over the opener\u2019s shoulders as he walked towards the pavilion and grinned as he offered some unsolicited farewell words.<\/p>\n\u201cThere is no need to walk him off in that fashion. Your job is done at that point,\u201d said Trescothick, England\u2019s assistant coach.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t think I\u2019ve ever seen a bowler do that after getting someone out. It was strange really.\u201d<\/p>\n
Television cameras had picked up Trescothick making some animated gestures in the dressing room and he explained: \u201cWe were chatting on the balcony. Many in my time would have just dropped the elbow on him or something quite different. I was just laughing and joking about it.\u201d<\/p>\n
As for Root\u2019s uncharacteristic tirade, Trescothick added: \u201cI think they made a comment, didn\u2019t they? He (Krishna) tried to get after him and spark him up a little bit. Joe\u2019s normally the kind of guy who laughs and giggles and allows things to happen, but today he chose a different route. Today Joe bit back.\u201d<\/p>\n
Krishna admitted it was part of a deliberate ploy to unsettle England\u2019s best batter but insisted nothing untoward had been said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat was the plan, but I didn\u2019t really expect the couple of words that I said to get such a big reaction from him,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was a very small thing. I think it was just a competitive edge amongst us that was coming out. But I love the guy that he is, he\u2019s a legend of the game.\u201d<\/p>\n
Former England captain Sir Alastair Cook told BBC\u2019s Test Match Special the tactic may have been a smart one and predicted more of the same as the game moves towards its conclusion.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy wouldn\u2019t you try to upset Joe Root? His record against India is superb,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou can say that it did work because Joe only got 29 when he normally averages 60 against them, so it\u2019s a success. Fair play to Krishna. I hope it didn\u2019t cross that line and was good old honest sledging. It definitely got Joe Root out of his bubble.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re in for some more fireworks. It\u2019s not going away for the next three days.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40507,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-40506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40506\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}