On a pitch that offered no support to pace bowlers, it was important to create pressure on England batsmen and force them to make mistakes, said India pace bowler Jasprit Bumrah, who volunteered to do the job for his skipper Virat Kohli on Monday, the fifth day of the fourth Test.
"It is very important to create pressure. We thought it was an important phase. So I went up to him and told him that we should start creating pressure. So that was the intention behind it," Bumrah explained the reason behind him approaching the skipper and asking to give him the ball just after lunch as England were coasting along.
"The mindset after the lunch break was that we needed to create a lot of pressure. We needed to start really well. Suddenly, [if] you give a lot of runs, then the momentum goes away and you come under pressure. Then you don't want to play catch-up. So I was of the mindset, [that] if we start to create pressure, any result is possible. So we had a lot a belief. The wicket was on the flatter side. It requires a lot of patience, lot of control. We wanted to exhibit that," said Bumrah in the post-match media interaction.
