Follow UsYashasvi Jaiswal scored his second consecutive Test double-century to pressure England in Rajkot, from which the visitors could never really recover from and lost the Test by a massive margin of 434 runs. However, Ben Duckett, who scored a valiant century in the first innings, claimed that England deserved credit for the way Jaiswal played and their style of play has rubbed off on other teams around the world.
However, that received serious criticism from all over the world and former England skipper Nasser Hussain responded to the English opener's comments, saying Jaiswal had learned the tricks of the trade from his upbringing and not from England.
“So the comment on Jaiswal, he’s learned from us. Again, I’m going to touch on that. He’s not learned from you. He’s learned from, as I say, his upbringing and all the hard yards he had to put in growing up, and he’s learned from IPL,” Hussain told Mike Atherton on Sky Sports Cricket.
“If anything, lads have a look at him (Jaiswal) and learn from him. So whatever they’re saying in public and in that dressing room, I hope they’re going back to their room and just a little bit of a self-introspection and going, yeah, I can look at that lad and learn from him. I can improve,” Hussain added.
Hussain further went on to claim that Jaiswal is one of the finest hitters of spin bowling he has ever seen, tracing it back to his time at Azad Maidan, where he honed his skills. Hussain added that there is a lot for English batters to learn from how Jaiswal batted against their spinners.
“Jaiswal for me has just been a wow moment,” Hussain said. “He has just been unbelievable. And again, I’ve just talked about how England’s spinners can learn from Indian spinners. I think some of England’s batters can learn from Jaiswal. He is attacking, he is hitting sixes for fun. I sit at home and I watch cricket still as a batter, and think, what shot would I have played?
“So the moment England spinners get it above the eye line, I pick that up and Jaiswal picks that up and belts it out of the ground. Literally every time I sit home going, always toss that up. Jaiswal belts it out of the ground. I’ve not seen, you’d have to go back to Vinod Kambli or (Navjot) Sidhu when you played on that tour, or Virender Sehwag, some of the great hitters of spin. I think you would put this young lad in.
“And I said on a previous podcast we’ve done, he’s got that hunger from moving as a twelve-year-old boy and living on Azad Maidan in a tent. He’s got that hunger and discipline, but he’s also got that IPL-hitting potential and flair. And that is a dangerous combination as England are finding out – two double-hundreds and big runs.
“And that’s why England, yeah, play the way you are. But have a look at this lad. He’s playing attacking, but he’s making it count. He’s sitting in. First hour, he didn’t go after England. Second hour, he went after their spinner. So a brilliant performance from him,” the former England skipper added.