Motera pitch was powerful to play, 200 plus in first innings might have given totally different end result: Jeetan Patel

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England didn’t anticipate the third Test pitch in Motera to spin so early however regardless of that the end result of the match might have been totally different had the guests scored greater than 200 of their first innings, new spin bowling coach Jeetan Patel mentioned on Monday.
England scored 112 and 81 within the two innings after opting to bat and so they fell to the guile of Indian spinners, led by Ravichandran Ashwin and Axar Patel, who took 19 England wickets amongst them, to lose the primary Test by 10 wickets inside two days.

“Look, it is India, it is Asia. We expect to get spinning surfaces, may be we did not expect to take spin as early as it did and hence the line-up we picked. It was a tough pitch to play on and we got on the wrong side of it,” Patel mentioned in a digital media convention.
“In the primary innings after we gained the toss, 112 was not going to be sufficient on any floor — spinning, flat or seaming. We have been excited after we bowled India out for 140-odd. But once more it didn’t click on in second innings.
“If we had scored 200 or 230 in the first innings, the game could have been different.”
Patel mentioned England anticipate the fourth and last Test pitch, beginning right here on Thursday, to even be a spinning observe however mentioned the guests are wanting to “punch back” from the 2 straight losses.

“The efficiency of Axar and Ashwin have been the query of the sequence actually. They have been unbelievable and it’s now for us to fight them. The dialog is to not go away from being optimistic and (we’re) trying to rating.
“One thing this England side have done recently is to face and punch against it. I expect the fourth Test match to be on a spinning wicket and we have to get a way to make sure if we win the toss how we are going to put up a decent total. I think we expect and I expect the team to punch back very hard,” he mentioned.
He mentioned the pink ball additionally didn’t behave the best way England thought it might “in terms of the pitch”.
“Pink ball reacted differently and it did not go the way we thought it would go. We had a plan but it did not quite work,” mentioned the 40-year-old former New Zealand off-spinner, who has performed 24 Tests, 43 ODIs and 11 T20Is.
Asked if there could be modifications within the crew for the fourth Test, he mentioned, “Not essentially. It will probably be about being good how we go about it.
“The pink ball had so many unknowns really and how it will react in terms of the wicket we did not know. You are never sure how things are going to play in Asia.”