Surprised to see Leach not bowl to Pant: Eng bowling coach
England spin bowling coach Jeetan Patel said on Friday he was surprised that England skipper Joe Root did not persist with Jack Leach against Rishabh Pant and instead trusted his own off-spin bowling and that of Dom Bess on the second day of the fourth Test.
“I was surprised,” he said responding to a query on why Leach was not continued with.
The former New Zealand spinner said the England team had exhausted all they had as Pant (101) and his batting partner Washington Sundar (batting 60) took the game away from the visitors.
England had gone in with three frontline bowlers and all-rounder Ben Stokes.
“He put in a lot effort. He did what a second seamer could do. He is a workhorse. He loves winning it tough,” said Patel of Stokes who picked the key wickets of Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma before Pant went after him.