Vice-captain Pope\u2019s magnificent 196 helped England, who had conceded 190 runs lead, make 420 in their second innings, setting India a target of 231. In reply, India were bowled out for 202, slumping to a 28-run defeat and now going 1-0 behind in the five-game series.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
England were at 163\/5 in their second innings, but Pope stepped in to play one of the greatest innings by any England batter in Tests in India. He used the sweep to a very good effect, dismantling the Indian spinners in an attacking fashion to his 21 boundaries in his 278-ball vigil at the crease.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
He also stitched three crucial partnerships of 112, 64 and 80 with Ben Foakes, Rehan Ahmed and Tom Hartley respectively. As Pope and others pulled England out of trouble, Rohit didn\u2019t appear proactive enough to stop the run-flow. He didn\u2019t resort to changing fields to make it more attacking or get the bowlers resort to a back-up plan immediately, which meant India were left waiting for things to happen, giving England an advantage.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
\u201cAgain and again, we\u2019ve seen captains really struggle when confronting the Bazball tactics for the first time in a series. India have become the latest team to fall into that trap. Sides that play against the England team have taken a game or two to react to the way that they play; they\u2019re not doing enough homework.\u201d<\/p>\r\n\r\n
\u201cI thought Rohit Sharma\u2019s captaincy was very, very average. I thought he was so reactive, I don\u2019t think he manoeuvred his field or was proactive with his bowling changes. And he didn\u2019t have any answer to Ollie Pope\u2019s sweeps or reverse sweeps.\u201d<\/p>\r\n\r\n
\u201cThe greatest spinner I\u2019ve seen, Shane Warne, would go around the wicket and get the player to sweep the leg side and say good luck trying to do that. I didn\u2019t see that any of that from India. It was just all too easy.\u201d<\/p>\r\n\r\n
\u201cThe way that England play, they will always score boundaries. And by spreading the field Sharma was basically saying that his bowlers\u2019 best balls would still go for one,\u201d wrote Vaughan in his column for The Telegraph on Monday.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
For England, debutant left-arm spinner Tom Hartley took a superb 7-62 to bowl the visitors\u2019 to a memorable victory. Vaughan admitted that Hartley's selection didn\u2019t sit well with him, but then it proved to be a master-stroke at the end and praised the captain-coach duo of Ben Stokes-Brendon McCullum for getting things right for England.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
\u201cI was pulling my hair out watching Ben Stokes\u2019s captaincy of Tom Hartley in the first innings. I couldn\u2019t believe it. But this is a captain completely committed to his players. It was a complete out-of-the-box selection. And it\u2019s been utterly vindicated.\u201d<\/p>\r\n\r\n
\u201cThe McCullum-Stokes regime get things right on a consistent basis because they back the players, they think outside the box. They are mavericks. After a day or two I thought they had overcomplicated life but they are getting it right. It is down to the culture, the mindset and the positivity and confidence they are giving these players.\u201d<\/p>\r\n\r\n
Despite England taking a 1-0 lead in the five-game series, Vaughan is expecting a fightback from India in the second Test at Visakhapatnam starting on February 2. \u201cI\u2019ll be unpopular for saying this, but the India team underachieve more than any team that I\u2019ve seen in sport.\u201d<\/p>\r\n\r\n
\u201cThey\u2019ve got far too much talent, far too much money in the system \u2013 the pathway, the A team series around the world, the infrastructure \u2013 and yet they underachieve. Yes they won those two series in Australia, but they haven\u2019t won an ICC event since 2013.\u201d<\/p>\r\n\r\n
\u201cI still think India are favourites to win the series, because they will react. You go back to the series in South Africa over the New Year - they were blown away in the first Test and then they won the second Test easily.\u201d<\/p>\r\n\r\n
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