KL Rahul: There was a lot of tension in the dressing room
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India captain KL Rahul admitted they were under pressure and there was lot of tension in their dressing room during the second Test match.
In pursuit of 145, India was reduced to 45-4 on day three and day four started with three wickets down in just seven overs of the day, to leave them at 74-7. Then Shreyas Iyer and Ravichandran Ashwin rescued the visitors with an unbeaten 71-run partnership.
KL stated that they were worried about losing the match, but was confident that there would be someone to bail them out of the fiasco.
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“You trust the guys in the middle (during such situations). We've played enough cricket to realize that someone will put their hand up to win us the game. But I'm not going to lie, there was a lot of tension in the dressing room. It was a tough wicket to bat on, they put us under pressure in both innings,” Rahul said after the match.
“It was a new-ball surface to some extent, once ball got softer, it was easier to score runs. It was a matter of who plays the new ball better. We did lose a few more wickets than ideal (in the chase) but we got the job done. Will take the win. That (bowling attack) has been the case for the last many years now. Wherever we've gone overseas in recent years, we have done the job,”
India swept the two-match Test series 2-0 following their 2-1 loss to Bangladesh in the ODI series.
