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After watching the strong performance of Yashasvi Jaiswal on Saturday, English cricketer Ben Duckett has praised the aggressive attitude of the Indian batsman. Duckett said England’s new batting approach, dubbed ‘baseball’, reflects how the game should be played. He credited Ben Stokes and Brendon McCullum for this strategy, which started about two years ago.
While calling India’s young batsman Yashasvi Jaiswal a ‘rising star’, Ben Duckett on Saturday said that his team should be given credit for inspiring the players of the opposition camp to bat aggressively in Test cricket. Jaiswal, batting in England’s famous ‘baseball’ style in Test cricket, scored a century in India’s second innings on Saturday, the third day of the third Test match.
Ben Duckett praised Yashasvi Jaiswal fiercely
However, at the end of the day, he scored 104 runs in 133 balls, hitting nine fours and five sixes, before being retired hurt due to back spasms. Ben Duckett was quoted by Hindustan Times as saying, “When you see the players of the opposition team playing like this, it feels like we should take some credit. “They are playing in a different way than their natural style.”
He said, “We have seen this many times in the current cricket season. It is quite exciting to see that other players and other teams are also playing that aggressive style of cricket. He looks like a superstar on the rise, unfortunately he is in a very good slump at the moment. “His bad times are going to come.”
Duckett, who scored 153 runs with the help of 23 fours and two sixes in 151 balls in England’s first innings, said that the Indian team had come on the field on Saturday with a better plan. He said, “It was a day when I think you have to give credit to India. In the morning session they were not giving easy chances to score runs.”
