India's senior players, skipper Virat Kohli and R Ashwin have lavished praise on debutant Axar Patel, who became only the sixth Indian bowler to take a five-wicket haul on debut, for showing no signs of nervousness in his first match.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
His haul helped India beat England by 317 runs in the second Test to bring the series level at 1-1.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
"He was very keen to step onto the field, and as a left-arm spinner, when you get that kind of a pitch where it is turning square and he bowls so fast, he was just all smiles, he couldn't wait to get the ball in his hands,<\/strong>" said skipper Kohli after the Test.<\/p>\r\n\r\n Patel, 27, was supposed to play the first match but could not as he had a niggle. Shahbaz Nadeem, who was in the reserves, replaced him.<\/p>\r\n\r\n "Actually, he would have played the first game as well if he didn't have that niggle," said Kohli. <\/strong>"Hope he builds it up from here on and has a very strong couple of games going forward, so he's always in the mix to play Test cricket for India."<\/p>\r\n\r\n Off-spinner R Ashwin, who won the Man of the Match award for his century and eight-wicket match haul, said Axar was good throughout the match and played as if it was another first-class match.<\/p>\r\n\r\n "I thought Axar bowled beautifully. Even in the first innings, he was pretty good. He got his rewards in the second innings. He didn't look like [he was] nervous. He looked like he was there. It didn't look like he was under pressure. He just turned up like he would turn up for a first-class game and bowl beautifully,<\/strong>" he said.<\/p>\r\n\r\n Ashwin also praised Kuldeep Yadav and said that early wicket gave him the confidence he needed.<\/p>\r\n\r\n "Sometimes when you bowling after a long time, to get confident with an early wicket, is always very important. The moment he got the batsman to drive, he was going to be a handful,<\/strong>" the off-spinner said.<\/p>\r\n",
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