INS vs ENG: Shahbaz Nadeem reveals the plan behind Root’s dismissal

The young Indian spinner Shahbaz Nadeem who get a chance ahead of Kuldeep Yadav in the first Test against England picked two crucial wickets on Day 2. Nadeem dismissed Joe Root and Ben Stokes with his great planning and execution.

England skipper Joe Root played an astonishing inning of 218 and became the first player to score a double hundred in the 100th Test match. Nadeem sent him back by bowling in the stumps and making sure to get him in front of the wicket. After the end of Day 2, Nadeem explained how he managed to take the priceless wicket of Root who was sweeping Indian spinners very well.

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“Joe Root is really a good player and looking at the recent outing he has been in red hot form. He is sweeping very well so if you are bowling to him, you have to come up with plans like a bowl at stumps and not pitch the ball outside the line of the stumps,” said Nadeem during the virtual press conference.

“Every spinner faces some problem when the batsman starts sweeping the ball but at the same time, you have to stick with your line and length. Wait for your time, wait for the batsman to make a mistake,” he added.

Stokes also played an interesting inning of 82-runs and finally get dismissed by Nadeem. Ben Stokes, earlier try to dominate Nadeem and also played attacking cricket rather than being defensive but at the end sent back by the Indian spinner. Nadeem admitted that Stokes prompted him to change his line and length.

“I feel I was trying to bowl on the rough outside the off stumps but he was trying to counter-attack me by laying reverse sweep. Yaa, he did change my line and length. I feel I am slightly jumping late before the crease and maybe that is the reason I am facing some problems. I need to work on those things going forward,” Nadeem further said.