ENG vs IND | Twitter amused as Carse throws Gill off with mind games and nearly ends up with his wicket

‌India recovered well from the early loss of KL Rahul on Day 1 of the second Test against England at Edgbaston as they headed into Lunch at 92/2, with Yashasvi Jaiswal scoring a quick half-century while Shubman Gill held guard having walked in shortly before the break. The duo had joined forces in a similar situation in the first Test at Headingley as well, where they had then stitched together a double-century partnership by scoring a ton each to take the visitors into ascendancy. With the Birmingham deck doing little to trouble batters, the situation seemed ripe for a repeat of the same, forcing Brydon Carse to adopt out of the box ideas in the hope of breaking the stand before it could do too much damage.

Carse operated along tight lines and length post the 40-minute break but without success and had three balls remaining in the final over of his spell when Gill took the strike. The right-arm quick steamed in as usual but just before he arrived at the popping crease, Carse inexplicably extended his left-arm outwards as if pointing to something with his index favour. Not one to fall into such traps, Gill quickly moved away from the mark midway through his trigger movement, even as Carse sent a short pithced delivery hurling over the stumps. While the distraction came across as silly initially, it nearly worked in breaking Gill's focus as the very next ball the batter was caught plumb in front of the wicket by an overpitched inswinger. Fortunately for the Indian skipper, he had managed to get an inside edge with his attempted drive, and duly survived an England review.

Twitterati was both impressed and agitated at the left-field tactics at play.

What was that from Carse?

True that!

That was some mind game there!

Yupe!

Which he is!

LOL!

What? xD xD

Cool!

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