IND vs AUS: Ex-Pak coach calls India all-rounder a subcontinent bully

Former Australian pacer Jason Gillespie has questioned India’s batting bid aft Washington Sundar’s awesome unbeaten 49 against Australia, saying the all-rounder deserved to bat higher than Axar Patel.“I don’t cognize wherefore helium is batting beneath Axar Patel," Gillespie said connected the Fast Bowling Cartel YouTube channel.

"That 49* was perfectly superb. He wasn’t intimidated by the Australian seamers and conscionable looked to instrumentality it on. They’ve got a bully batting lineup. I conscionable felt Axar Patel is 1 oregon 2 spots excessively precocious successful that order. He’s a bully player, nary doubt, but helium is astir apt much suited to subcontinent conditions,” The erstwhile Pakistan coach, who has seen Sundar intimately during his coaching stints successful Chennai, praised the young all-rounder’s temperament and confidence.“I’ve spent a small spot of clip with Washington Sundar successful Chennai erstwhile I’ve been coaching. He has conscionable got a large attitude. He conscionable goes and backs himself erstwhile helium gets the opportunity,” Gillespie added.The five-match bid successful Australia is tied 1-1 aft India's five-wicket triumph implicit the location squad connected Sunday, the triumph coming connected the backmost of all-rounder Washington Sundar's explosive sound aft left-arm seamer Arshdeep Singh's aboriginal bursts with the ball.

"If I support reasoning astir I should decidedly execute with the bat due to the fact that if not I haven't gotten overmuch with the shot oregon vice versa, I deliberation that puts a batch of unit connected maine and it means you are not truly enjoying the game," Washington said astatine the post-match property league aft India successfully chased a people of 187 successful the 3rd T20I.For Washington, representing India crossed formats and being capable to fulfil the requirements of each mentation does springiness satisfaction."I mean the challenges are decidedly breathtaking due to the fact that determination are antithetic questions thrown astatine you and you conscionable got to find your answers and that's the quality of playing astatine the highest level," helium said.