Cricket: 'India had more chances to win,' says Zaheer Khan after rain forced to draw 1st Test
Zaheer Khan
Zaheer Khan said India and England will consider each other fortunate to get away with adraw in the first Test at Trent Bridge.He conceded India were top picks to dominate the game on Day 5 if the downpour hadn't interceded however added that England would have accepted they excessively had a reasonable shot at bowling India out.
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India had nine wickets close by and required 157 runs to add to their overnight score of 52/1 on Sunday before the match was cleaned out.
In a conversation with an Indian media outlet, Zaheer Khan said India can likewise glance back at their exhibition on the initial four days and take certainty from it going on in the series.
"If you are in the Indian dressing room, you should definitely think you were in control and could have won this match. If the series reaches a point where the players feel self-doubt, then they can certainly look back at this performance and this Test was successful from that point of view," he said.
"If you see, because of the rain breaks, the wicket wasn't the fifth day one if they had played for the whole day, India had more chances to win this match," he added.
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The former Indian pacer added that the two teams will currently take a gander at the positives and learnings from this match.
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"The shorter the game time, the better it would have been for England because of the conditions, required run-rate, and an opportunity to set attacking fields. But all you can do right now is look at the positives and what learnings you can take from here," he said.
"Both dressing rooms will be in that kind of mood and perhaps Indian chats will be about how England got a bit lucky because of the rain while the English dressing room will say they had the bowling ability to win the game," he concluded.