India -Head Coach Gautam Gambhir defends a decision to refuse the range of Stokes

Gautam Gambhir, the head coach of India, offered a strong defense on his side as Ravindra Jadeja and Washington Sundar – to the great annoyance of England – centuries in a bizarre finish of the pulled fourth test in Old Trafford.

After Jadeja and Sunday resolutely struck to exclude an English victory, Ben Stokes offered to shake hands with 15 overs that remained on day five. But with both batters who are approaching three digits – Sundar at 80, Jadeja at 89 – continued to hit India.

Stokes, who wanted to rest his Frontline -Bowlers, brought Harry Brook, who transferred a number of useful offers to the pair of Southpaws. He admitted 24 out of three overs, the competition ended with Sundar who reached his first test century.

“You keep your hands up, they played incredibly well,” said Stokes. “But I don’t think it would have been too much more satisfaction not to walk away 100, to remove your team from a difficult situation, then running away at 80, 90. That is what you have done for your team.

“Ten more runs or whatever it was, the fact that you removed your team from a very difficult situation and almost saved your team from a series of defeat before the last game.

“We took the game as far as we could with our frontline bowlers. As soon as it came to that point where the trek was inevitable, I would never risk my frontline bowlers with the short turning that we have and the workload we went through this week and in this series.

‘I had to tell [Brook]: “Do nothing stupid.” We have spent a lot of time -out in the field, you cannot pull on one side or do something else. “

Gambhir thought differently about the situation. “If someone beats 90 and the other refers to 85, do they not earn a hundred? Would they have run away? If someone from the English side would have beaten 90 or 85, if someone had the opportunity to get his first test, wouldn’t you let him do if they have the storm?

Stokes passed an important workload during the test. While he celebrated for a century and took a five-wicket trait, the all-rounder grinned through his spell on the fifth morning. Asked how he felt, he replied: ‘Mentally, decent. Physically physically better.

“It has been a fairly large workload in the series so far. Another big last week at Lord’s, the time I spent in the middle with bat in hand and threw overs. And then again this week. I said to the boys there a few times:” Pain is just an emotion. ” It’s just one of those things. “

Stokes did not provide complete certainty about whether he will play the last test in The Oval, which starts on Thursday, although – due to a confusing use of words – suggested that he would be present if England wants to win a series victory.

“You look at how long we have been in the field and the overs that we have bent as a bowling unit, everyone will be pretty painful and pretty tired to enter the last game of the series,” Stokes said.

“I think there will be an assessment of everyone and hopefully we can use these two to three days of rest wisely and then have to make a decision.

“These recovery days will be pretty important and we may have to make a few decisions to get some new legs. But that will not be decided until we get closer to the last game.

“I don’t want to eat my words, but the chance that I won’t play is very unlikely.”