Shubman Gill says: ‘Pull is my favourite shot’:Harshit Rana calls playing for India a dream come true; Axar Patel ‘knew from before’ he would bat up the order – CarbonMedia
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Shubman Gill says: ‘Pull is my favourite shot’:Harshit Rana calls playing for India a dream come true; Axar Patel ‘knew from before’ he would bat up the order

India beat England by 4 wickets in the first match of the three-match ODI series. Batting first, the English team was bowled out for 248 runs. Thanks to the partnership between Shubman Gill and Axar Patel, India scored 251 runs to win the match with more than 11 overs remaining. After the match on Thursday (February 6), debutant Harshit Rana revealed that he had worked hard to get a chance to play for the country. Meanwhile, Player of the match Gill rated the pull played he played as his favourite. Axar Patel said that 'knew from before' he would bat up the order. What players said after the match? Playing for India was a dream: Harshit Rana Harshit, who took 3 wickets on debut, said playing for India was a dream. He said that he had prepared himself for this and worked hard. He said that he did not bowl at the right length but as soon as he corrected it, he got rewarded for it. Phil Salt and Ben Duckett were trying to build their innings, which is why he kept bowling at the stumps. Both fast and slow balls were proving effective on this pitch and he experimented based on his reading of the batters. I played positive cricket: Shubman Gill Shubman, who was the Player of the Match for scoring 87 runs, said, that he tried to play was play positive cricket. "The pull shot I played when I was on 70 was probably the shot of the day for me. Apart from pull, I like playing straight and cover drives and these are my favourite strokes," he said. Axar "knew from before" that he would get to bat in the middle order Axar played an innings of 52 runs batting in the middle order. "I knew from before [about batting at No. 5] to keep left-right combo going. Fast bowlers’ balls were coming on to the bat, so we switched to spin. But even spinners were being hit, so credit to them for starting well," he said. "We (the three spinners) knew if we can stick to our lines and lengths, we could make a comeback given they attack the bowlers. Our plan was to make them err as they go for their shots. When we were bowling, the ball was stopping a bit. Their spinners varied the pace well, if our spinners had done the same, we would have got more turn." [On partnership with Gill] Talk was about play as it comes and not think much. As we played on, we targeted the bowlers and spoke about taking it long because it was not easy for a new batter," he added. Very happy with team's performance: Rohit Indian captain Rohit Sharma said in the press conference that he is very happy with the team's performance. The team played exactly how he had thought. Disappointed about not being able to win the match – Jos Buttler On losing the first ODI Jos Buttler said that he is disappointed about not being able to win the match after a great start in the powerplay. He praised Shreyas Iyer for his counter attacking approachOriginal Article