Besides suicidal batting tendencies, India’s cricketers were on Saturday afflicted with ‘butter fingers’ dropping easy catches from which England captain Alastair Cook benefitted in the fifth and final cricket Test.
The England captain was lucky to survive a plumb leg before off Bhuvneshwar Kumar’s bowling on an individual score of nine on the opening day on Friday. The delivery was crashing onto the middle stump but Australian umpire Paul Reiffel felt otherwise.
Cook then displayed the doggedness to complete another half-century before he was again rewarded by the profligacy of the India’s slip-cordon.
The England captain was lucky to survive a plumb leg before off Bhuvneshwar Kumar’s bowling on an individual score of nine on the opening day on Friday. The delivery was crashing onto the middle stump but Australian umpire Paul Reiffel felt otherwise.
Cook then displayed the doggedness to complete another half-century before he was again rewarded by the profligacy of the India’s slip-cordon.