India vs England 2nd Test: Team India Still Searching for a Stable No. 3 Batter after Cheteshwar Pujara – Amar Ujala Hindi News Live

The second match of the five -match Test series between India and England is being played in Edgbaston. Team India captain Shubman Gill made three changes in the playing-11 for the second match. He excluded Jaspreet Bumrah, Sai Sudarshan and Shardul Thakur and included Akash Deep, Washington Sundar and Nitish Reddy. Sudarshan got a chance to play only one match and was dropped. In the last Test, he could not open an account in the first innings, while scored 30 runs in the second innings. However, a strong batsman is discovered at number three. After excluding Cheteshwar Pujara from the team, India has not been able to get the right player at number three so far. During this, Team India has tried many players.

Sudarshan was asked to bat at number three in the Leeds Test. However, in the second Test, he was not included in search of the right playing combination and Karun Nair was given the responsibility. Earlier, when Kohli was playing, Gill was ranked number three. On Kohli’s retirement, Gill was shifted to Kohli at number four and he scored a century. At the same time, Pant has been very successful for some time at Rahane’s number five. However, no permanent number three has been found since Gill was removed from number three.

Then Sudarshan was batted at number three in the first Test against England. Then in the second Test, Karun Nair landed at number three and could score 31 runs in 50 balls in the first innings. In the 21st century, Rahul Dravid and then Cheteshwar Pujara ruled the number three. Dravid scored 10,524 runs out of the 13,288 runs in Test career while batting at number three. At the same time, his successor Pujara scored 6529 runs out of 7195 runs in Test career while batting at number three. However, the wait for India’s new number three is currently going on.