Former England captain Alastair Cook said Gill was right not to show his hand on Bumrah, with the fifth Test not beginning until Thursday.<\/p>\n
“Even if he isn’t going to play, you wouldn’t tell people now, just on a purely tactical basis,” Cook told Test Match Special.<\/p>\n
“They made a mistake at the beginning of the series saying he could only play three, because you get thrown into a situation like now where the series is still on the line.<\/p>\n
“If he’s not fit to play, not playing is the right decision.”<\/p>\n
Gill did confirm that Bumrah’s fellow seamer Akash Deep will be available at The Oval after missing the fourth Test with a groin injury.<\/p>\n
But wicketkeeper Rishabh Pant will miss the final Test after suffering a broken foot in Manchester. Uncapped Tamil Nadu wicketkeeper Narayan Jagadeesan has been called up as cover.<\/p>\n
Pant was struck on his right foot attempting a reverse-sweep at seam bowler Chris Woakes on the first day. He retired hurt on 37, then returned to bat again on day two, eventually moving to 54.<\/p>\n
“Any amount of praise is not enough for him, batting with a broken foot,” said India coach Gautam Gambhir. “Generations to come should talk about this, someone who batted with a broken foot.<\/p>\n
“I hope he recovers and comes back quickly for us.”<\/p>\n
Gambhir also said he is “all for” the introduction of injury replacements in Test cricket. Currently, a replacement is only allowed if a player suffers a concussion.<\/p>\n
India pulled off a remarkable escape to draw the fourth Test to keep the scoreline at 2-1 in England’s favour.<\/p>\n
Beginning their second innings 311 runs behind, the away side were reduced to 0-2 before lunch on day four.<\/p>\n
But they batted through the next five sessions to leave Manchester with a draw. Gill, Ravindra Jadeja and Washington Sundar all made centuries to take India to 425-4, leading by 114 when a draw was agreed with 10 overs of the final day remaining.<\/p>\n
“This is no less than a win for us,” said Gill. “Having batted again around 300 runs off the lead, our batsmen put on a great display.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former England captain Alastair Cook said Gill was right not to show his hand on Bumrah, with the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":298032,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4101],"tags":[1406,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-298031","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-cricket","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114929951430521435","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298031\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/298032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}