In his magical spell of 6-45, where Bumrah produced a masterclass in reverse-swing bowling, he removed Root, Ollie Pope, Jonny Bairstow, Ben Stokes, before cleaning up the tail by removing Tom Hartley and James Anderson. The scalp of Stokes was his 150th wicket in Test matches, as India took a 171-run first-innings lead.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
\"A couple of those balls, the Bumrah spell against Joe Root, is actually very high-quality reverse swing bowling. What is very clever about it is after the partnership, Bumrah didn\u2019t bowl the first over of reverse swing, (Mukesh) Kumar did, and when they knew it was reverse swinging, they went to his (India skipper Rohit Sharma's) best bowler.\"<\/p>\r\n\r\n
\"Joe Root, unfortunately, he\u2019s England\u2019s best-ever batsman, he\u2019s scored over 11,000 runs, and now we\u2019re going to see a challenge that he\u2019s got to overcome. If you think, 11,000 runs, he won\u2019t have to worry about anything else, but the next three and a half Test matches will be having to deal with Bumrah early on in his innings, to try and score runs early on. It\u2019s fascinating and we\u2019ll see if Joe Root is good enough to counter it,\" said Cook to TNT Sports.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
In the light of Root\u2019s troubles against Bumrah, Cook, who is also the last England captain to win a Test series in India during the 2012\/13 season, recalled the problems he faced over his career on facing ex-South Africa bowler Morne Morkel.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
\"Morkel used to get me out for fun. Even at Surrey, he used to remind me how many times he had got me out. He actually bowled a straight wide one, and I just cut it straight to point. Any other bowler, I\u2018d have hit that four, but the mental game gets you a bit.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
\"I've faced Bumrah a number of times, but I don't think I've ever faced him bowling as well as that. His awkwardness, his different angles, he creates a different vision for the batter and it makes him sometimes unplayable,\" he said.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
Cook further explained how Bumrah\u2019s mastery left Root indecisive in his mind, leading to his dismissal. \"Bumrah has a really good record against Root. He\u2019s got him out eight times in 12 Test matches, so he doesn\u2019t line him up particularly well. So when he tries to get him LBW, he starts covering that. As a batsman you\u2019re thinking \u2018this is what he\u2019s trying to do\u2019. A lot of time in the nets trying to play it straight.\"<\/p>\r\n\r\n
\"At Hyderabad, he was playing across the line and got LBW. Early on he saw an in-swinger and played a beautiful straight bat, so he\u2019s trying to do it. But what he does do, you\u2019re looking to play the ball all the time.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
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