Joe Root: Yeah, much more than in England (enjoy bowling in India). Little bit more to work with. (Bumrah's spell) Too good for me, I didn't last long enough to get through it. He's a quality bowler. When it starts to reverse, 4 or 5 overs of really tough batting, which if we can get through you can hopefully reap rewards, but unfortunately in my case, I couldn't. One of the most exciting things about yesterday was watching Ollie get through that, the way he managed that and obviously the rest of his innings as well. Some of the partnerships with few of the other guys means that we are well in the game now. Most of the guys play it (reverse sweep) a lot now anyway. Here, you got to find different ways of putting pressure back on the bowler, that's how we want to play, that's how we have played for a good while now as a team. That's a shot that can be very effective in this part of the world when the ball is turning. You try to exploit different parts of the field and make it hard for the bowlers to bowl the same ball time and time again. Yesterday, Ben Duckett and Ollie Pope in particular put on an exhibition and how to do that. Not with just one type of reverse sweep but four or five ways of playing that shot which opened up a massive part of the field. (Score that can put India under a lot of pressure) The most important thing is we try and take the scoreboard out of it like we did yesterday, went out there and we played in the manner that we wanted to play. If we keep focusing mainly on that rather than outcomes, we'll give ourselves a better chance of being in a strong position at the end of the innings. We have two talented guys at the crease now, we still have guys in the shed who are more than capable of some handy runs. I'm sure the pitch will deteriorate again as the day progresses. We gotta keep believing, keep fighting hard and play in the manner that suits us the best.
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