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India’s last four batters could only manage to score five runs in the first innings of the Leeds Test and four runs in the second innings on Monday.
India’s batting compared with Dobermann dog. (Picture Credit: Screengrab)
Indian tailenders—Shardul Thakur, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammed Siraj, and Prasidh Krishna—could only manage to add 5 runs to India’s total in the first innings of the first Test against England currently underway at Headingley in Leeds, and the pacer quartet added four runs in the second innings on Monday (June 23). After India’s tailenders failed to put up a fight with the bat for the second time in the first Test, fans on X slammed Indian batting.
Before the start of the fifth day’s play in Leeds, former Indian wicketkeeper-batter Dinesh Karthik read out a tweet in which India’s batting was compared with a Dobermann dog.
According to the viral comparison, “Indian batting is like a Dobermann dog. The head is good, the middle portion is okay, but there’s no tail at all.”
In comparison to India, England’s last four batters—Chris Woakes, Brydon Carse, Josh Tongue, and Shoaib Bashir—added 72 runs to the team’s tally in the first innings and helped the hosts cut down India’s lead to only six runs.
The poor show by Indian tailenders in the ongoing match, however, should not come as a surprise for fans. Since the start of the WTC in July 2019, no player has scored more ducks in the five-day format of the game than Bumrah (22), and Siraj is joint-second on the list with 12 ducks in 51 innings of 37 WTC matches.
5 centuries by India in Leeds
Yashasvi Jaiswal, Shubman Gill, and Rishabh Pant scored centuries for India in the first innings of the Leeds Test to help them post a total of 471 runs, and KL Rahul and Pant crossed the 100-run mark in the second innings to help India score 364 runs on Monday (June 23). For the first time in 93 years, India have managed to score five individual centuries in a Test match, and it also helped the Shubman Gill-led side become only the second team in Test history to score five centuries in a red-ball match played away from home.
For England as well, two batters—Ollie Pope in the first innings and Ben Duckett in the second innings—have scored centuries, and Harry Brook got out after making 99 runs on Sunday (June 22).
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