India’s tormentors, Joe Root and James Anderson, grinned right through their media interaction on Saturday. The England duo expressed delight over a gritty show. Anderson spoke about working out mini-targets. “Bat a bit, chip away the lead as well but we didn’t expect what we got to. We did pretty well. Joe talked me through every ball.”
Root, who had a run-in with an angry Ishant Sharma, downplayed the incident. “He was trying to use that incident (a caught-behind appeal) as an excuse to fire himself up and I did the same. It was a surreal moment for me to have Jimmy walking in and breaking us up!”
Meanwhile, Cheteshwar Pujara admitted to twin disappointments — watching the England tail wag and his own dismissal. “ Root batted well and he often faced the first three or four balls before giving the strike to Anderson.”
